David Mayer '78, MD '82,
recently published How to
Stay Safe When Entering the
Healthcare System: A Physician Walks
Across the Country to Raise Awareness of
the Need to Improve Healthcare Safety.
The book chronicles Dr. Mayer's 2,452-
mile, 355-day cross-country trek at the
height of the COVID-19 pandemic to sound
the alarm about the 250,000 lives that
are lost each year to preventable medical
harm. This urgent call to action also details
the harmful effects of workplace violence,
depression and burnout on healthcare
professionals, which result in some of
the highest suicide rates of any industry.
Written for medical professionals and lay
readers, How to Stay Safe When Entering
the Healthcare System is available at
amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
Miguel A. Paniagua, MD '98,
has been named vice president
for medical education for the
American College of Physicians (ACP).
Dr. Paniagua is responsible for designing
and implementing clinical education
initiatives, representing ACP through
external collaborations with medical
education organizations, and advancing
ACP's medical education services through
business and program management.
Stephanie Toth-Manikowski,
MD '10, has joined Healthmap
Solutions as corporate medical
director, with a national scope of work
that includes identifying advanced kidney
healthcare best practices across patient
populations. Dr. Toth-Manikowski is
a double board-certified physician in
internal medicine and nephrology with
a long-standing commitment to caring
for individuals with kidney disease. She
has focused on increasing home dialysis
use among racial and ethnic minorities,
managing pregnancy for women with
chronic kidney disease and end-stage
renal disease, and initiating urgent
peritoneal dialysis for patients "crashing"
into dialysis.
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