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Stopping violence: What can health care do right now?Dr. David Grossman, with Dr. Bechara Choucair, has ideas for reducing harm to patients and the workforce
suicide, guns, firearm injury, homicide, violence prevention
2019-10-07
NIH awards KPWHRI 3 HEAL grants totaling over $15 millionDrs. DeBar, Bradley, and Sherman will lead projects in major new initiative to tackle national opioid crisis.
NIH, opioid crisis, HEAL initiative
2019-10-01
Watch our new video, ‘Research for the rest of us’Drs. Neely Williams and David Arterburn talk about how important patient involvement is to the PCORnet Bariatric Study.
bariatric surgery, obesity, patient engagement
2019-09-23
Diabetes is more common among minorities at lower weightsAt normal weight, Pacific Islanders are 3 times likelier than whites to have diabetes, Kaiser Permanente research finds
diabetes, weight, racial disparities
2019-09-19
How women are breaking academia’s glass ceilingDr. Amy Bonomi discusses her new book profiling 23 women who have risen to leadership positions in higher education and how they are changing their institutions.
woman leaders, academia, glass cliff
2019-09-16
Dr. Eric Larson to deliver Birnbaum Lecture Nov. 13‘The Affordability Imperative’ will address our nation’s need to reduce disparities, address social determinants, and promote value in health care systems.
Birnbaum Lecture, social determinants, disparities, value
2019-09-11
Opioids: Encouraging trends and new challengesKaiser Permanente Washington led in reducing opioids. We’re seeing benefits, but more work is needed, writes Dr. Michael Von Korff.
chronic pain, opioids, complementary and alternative medicine
2019-09-09
Land Acknowledgment
Our Seattle offices sit on the occupied land of the Duwamish and by the shared waters of the Coast Salish people, who have been here thousands of years and remain. Learn about practicing land acknowledgment.