General information
RPA luncheons will continue to occur at the beginning of each February, May, August, and November at varying locations. Please note carefully which day of the week and which location each event will occur.
Upcoming dates will appear below when announced. Online reservations become available approximately one month prior to the event. If you have questions or comments about the luncheons, please direct them to Bryan Fong - <bryfong@gmail.com>.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Next Meeting Information:
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2024 (Please note that this meeting is on Thursday!)
Social Hour: 11:30 am (cash bar)
Lunch served: 12:15 pm
Lecture begins: 1:00 pm
Topic: “TPMG Senior Surgical Care Program”
Location: Garrè Vineyard, Restaurant and Event Center, 7986 Tesla Road, Livermore (Note: brand-new Livermore location)
Presenter: Subhendra Banerjee, MD
Subhendra Banerjee, MD
Presently serves on the Verification Committee of the American College of Surgeons for the Geriatric Surgery Verification Program.
Summary: For the RPA Spring Luncheon on Thursday, May 9, 2024, please note the both the new day of the week, Thursday and the new venue in Livermore location, as an attempt to serve our Central Valley members.
Our guest speaker will be new RPA member Dr. Subhendra Banerjee, who will tell us about the TPMG Senior Surgical Care Program.
The Senior Surgical Care Program is a standardized way of providing appropriate surgical care for the elderly. The program is in alignment with the standards created by the American College of Surgeons for geriatric surgery known as the Geriatric Surgery Verification Program.
He will tell us about the history behind the creation of the program in KP Northern California, the strengths of our organization which allowed the creation of the program and its subsequent spread to the other hospitals in Northern California Kaiser and to other KP regions.
He will discuss how the process of preoperative evaluation, perioperative care, care in the hospital and subsequent post hospital care determines the successful outcome in this high-risk patient population.
Dr. Banerjee was a staff surgeon doing general surgery, bariatric surgery and thoracic surgery at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Fresno from 2000 -2023. During his tenure he trained in performance improvement and completed the Patient Safety Executive Development Program at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). In 2011, he was appointed as the APIC for Quality and Patient Safety and oversaw Outpatient and Hospital Quality and Patient Safety. He was also the Surgical Quality Leader from 2011-2022.
Additionally, he has been involved in regional KP projects like the Hospital Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) Pilot, NSQIP (ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program) and ERAS (Early Recovery After Surgery) Regional Roll out for all Inpatient surgeries. He served as the Director of the Geriatric Surgery program and clinical co lead of the regional Senior Surgical Program for Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
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Dr. Maria Ansari
CEO and Executive Director of the Permanente Medical Group
Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, is the CEO and executive director of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) and president and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (MAPMG), two of the largest and most accomplished medical groups in the nation. Together, TPMG and MAPMG have more than 11,000 physicians and 45,000 staff delivering high-quality health care to more than 5.4 million Kaiser Permanente members in Northern California, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ansari is also co-CEO of The Permanente Federation, a consortium of all the Permanente Medical Groups in the nation. The Federation supports the work of 24,000 Permanente physicians and 80,000 staff who serve 12.7 million Kaiser Permanente members.
Previously, Dr. Ansari had served as the physician-in-chief (PIC) for the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center since 2014. Under her transformational leadership, KP San Francisco designed and implemented numerous advances in medical practice in primary care and specialty care by empowering physicians and staff to create and sustain a culture of trust, teamwork, and innovation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she also served as the chief medical office liaison to the San Francisco Department of Public Health COVID Vaccine Taskforce.
Dr. Ansari has served on the Boards of Directors for TPMG and MAPMG, and she continues to serve on the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation Board. Dr. Ansari became chief of the Cardiology Department at KP San Francisco in 2007, and she has also served as chair of chiefs of cardiology at regional and national levels.
Originally from Michigan, Dr. Ansari earned her Bachelor of Science and medical degree and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. She completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is a graduate of the Kaiser Permanente Executive Leadership Program from Harvard Business School.
Dr. Ansari is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a member of the American Society of Echocardiography and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF.
A link to the presentation will be available on our ‘Members Only’ page.