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Jack Resneck Named Chair-Elect of American Medical Association Board
Jack Resneck Jr., MD, a UC San Francisco dermatologist, has been named chair-elect of the 2017-2018 American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees. Resneck’s selection for the Board position was announced by the AMA on June 14 during the Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates. The AMA is the premier national organization providing timely, essential resources that empower physicians, residents and medical students to succeed at every phase of their medical lives. Resneck is professor and vice-chair of the UCSF Department of Dermatology. He holds a joint appointment as a core faculty member at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, and also directs UCSF’s dermatology faculty practice. Read More
More than five million Californians have gained coverage under Obamacare, either through the expansion of Medi-Cal, California’s version of the Medicaid program for low-income people, or by purchasing health plans from Covered California, the state’s insurance exchange. Emergency room visits by people on Medi-Cal rose 75 percent over five years, from 800,000 in the first quarter of 2012 to 1.4 million in the last quarter of 2016. Renee Hsia, professor of emergency medicine and health policy at UCSF; director of the policy lab for acute care & emergencies at UCSF, joins Lanhee Chen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and former policy director for the Romney-Ryan 2012 presidential campaign in this radio interview hosted by KPCC's Larry Mantle. 
