Legal Affairs: Practical guidance for compliance plan oversight programs, see page 3
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The Leading Source for Healthcare Business News
June 2015 • Volume 12, Issue 3 • $3.50
INSIDE
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UTMB researchers devise
vaccine that provides longterm protection against
Chagas disease
see page 11
INDEX
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Legal Affairs......................3
Financial Perspectives.......4
THA................................5
Integrative Medicine.........6
Physicians’ Forum.............7
Hospital Headlines..........11
Medical Marijuana in
Cancer Patients
see page 6
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BY STACY SHILLING
MEDICAL JOURNAL - HOUSTON
How often have you visited with your staff
outside those immediate to you such as
custodians, secretaries, schedulers, nurses,
etc.?
Ronald A. DePinho, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center
MD Anderson is a team of 20,000 cancer-
fighting champions. I consider it my
responsibility, and an honor, to conduct
regular visits to connect with our faculty,
nurses, staff and volunteers. I continually
seek their input to understand how
the institution can better support their
excellence. I call those sessions “walkabouts”
and have been doing them since I arrived.
I also host Offline sessions where small
groups of faculty or employees from across
the institution gather in my office to discuss
any topic they’d like to raise. The issues and
ideas covered are vast, and the information
and stories are eye-opening and help me
better understand what’s going on and how
I or my executive team and faculty leaders
can help. I’m a people person and enjoy
all points of contact with our employees
Please see CEO SURVEY page 12
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