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2024 Power 100: Maurice Phelan
Updated: April 29, 2024Leading the charge for Sartorius in North America is Phelan. Responsible for the company’s 2,600 employees on the continent, Phelan is an important figure in the company’s rapid expansion.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Dr. Eric Dickson
Updated: April 29, 2024The past 12 months have been full of ups and downs for Dickson and UMass Memorial, while he navigated the turmoil in the healthcare industry.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Carolyn Jackson
Updated: April 29, 2024As the leader of the largest for-profit hospital system in Central Massachusetts and the region’s second largest hospital, Jackson has been the focus of the ire of politicians and workers for nearly all of 2024.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Marlina Duncan
Updated: April 29, 2024With Duncan’s influence, UMass Chan added a diversity, equity, and inclusion pillar to the university’s IMPACT 2025 strategic plan in 2022, picking 10 of the university’s departments to front new action plans.
Updated: April 29, 2024
FDA issues most serious recall against Boston Scientific’s blood vessel blocking device
April 23, 2024The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall of Boston Scientific’s Obsidio conformable embolic medical device after an investigation found using the product for lower gastrointestinal bleeding embolization can result in a high risk of
April 23, 2024
Hospital for Behavioral Medicine brings on third CEO since 2021
April 19, 2024The Hospital for Behavioral Medicine in Worcester has named Evelyn Alsup as the hospital’s new CEO, marking the hospital’s third CEO in five years.
April 19, 2024
WPI receives slice of $2.8M women’s health grants for bipolar treatment development
April 17, 2024Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute professors are amongst 10 project awardees receiving $2.8 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support their research advancing women’s health outcomes.
April 17, 2024
WBJ hires New School graduate as reporter covering health care, DEI
April 17, 2024Before coming to WBJ, Kanner-Mascolo was an editor and writer for New York City-based intersectional feminist news hub FEMINIST and a contributing writer for New York City-based beauty publication Byrdie.
April 17, 2024
Saint Vincent Hospital hires third CFO since 2019
April 15, 2024Jeffrey Thomas has been named as the new chief financial officer of the Massachusetts market of Tenet Healthcare.
April 15, 2024
Gov. Healey's proposed $1B life sciences reauthorization has Central Mass. leaders thinking big
Updated: April 15, 2024For the burgeoning life sciences hub that is Central Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey’s $3.5-billion Mass Leads Act economic development proposal looks to add fuel to fires.
Updated: April 15, 2024
Preventing type 1 diabetes: UMass Chan researcher developing skin treatment, with potential broader applications to prevent diabetes
Updated: April 15, 2024Now professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at UMass Chan, Harris has founded a vitiligo pharmaceutical company and is about to launch a 1,000-person vitiligo study.
Updated: April 15, 2024
UMass Chan to open AI assurance lab to validate use of the technology in health care
April 12, 2024On Wednesday, UMass Chan announced the creation of the university’s Health AI Assurance Laboratory: a lab designed to evaluate processes and impacts of health AI technology to advance efforts for more accountable, unbiased, and efficacious patient
April 12, 2024
Saint Vincent faces formal complaint from National Labor Relations Board
April 11, 2024The National Labor Relations Board has issued a formal complaint against Saint Vincent Hospital citing a number of nurses’ union rights violations perpetrated by the hospital.
April 11, 2024
To address physician shortage, Blue Cross to reimburse small Mass. primary care providers $20M
April 9, 2024Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will provide up to $20 million in total reimbursements to small, independent primary care practices across Massachusetts, as it seeks to reduce patient waiting times.
April 9, 2024
New law could ease physician assistant labor gap should Steward Health Care exodus take effect
April 5, 2024Dressed in white lab coats, nearly 200 physician assistant students and providers on Thursday pitched their potential to help solve a health care workforce shortage that could worsen given the challenges facing Massachusetts hospitals owned by
April 5, 2024
Worcester’s Latin American Health Alliance to split $3M for substance-use work
April 5, 2024Worcester nonprofit Latin American Health Alliance is one of 20 BIPOC-led organizations receiving $2.9 million in grants from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to help fund efforts to address substance use in their communities
April 5, 2024
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