June 13, 2024
On June 7, Kelly Morrison, MD, an OBGYN and MMA member, resigned from the Minnesota Senate to focus full-time on her bid to represent Minnesota’s third congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
June 13, 2024
The Center for Advancing Serious Illness Communication (CASIC) is offering physicians a comprehensive training series that will introduce them to serious illness communication and to the Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG).
June 5, 2024
Have an idea for an app, device or process that could improve how medicine is practiced in Minnesota? The MMA is looking for you.
June 5, 2024
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Center for Health Equity, which was created in 2013 to advance health equity, has been elevated to a division within MDH, and will now be known as the Division of Health Equity Strategy and Innovation.
May 30, 2024
The number of reportable adverse health events in Minnesota hospitals, licensed ambulatory surgical centers and community behavioral health hospitals increased for the fourth straight year in 2023, according to the latest data released by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) on May 30.
May 30, 2024
Medical students, residents, and fellows are encouraged to submit an abstract on their research for possible inclusion in this year’s poster symposium at the MMA’s Empowering Physicians Conference on September 27 at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis.
May 30, 2024
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) officially launched Minnesota’s statewide Office of American Indian Health (OAIH) at the Capitol on May 29.
May 23, 2024
The MMA, along with the AMA and the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), submitted an amicus or “friend of the court” brief this week in a case before the Minnesota Court of Appeals involving the denial of medical malpractice insurance coverage by MMIC filed by Minnesota physician, James A. Hoffman, MD.
May 23, 2024
The MMA guided three of its top priorities across the finish line this legislative session. Bills on prior authorization reform, physician well-being, and addressing addiction through harm reduction, now await Gov. Tim Walz’s signature.
May 23, 2024
MMA staff lobbyists will review the recently completed 2024 legislation session and discuss how new legislation will impact physicians and medicine in Minnesota, as part of a virtual physician forum from 6 to 7 pm on Thursday, June 13.
