Richard
S. Isaacs, MD, FACS serves as the Physician-in-Chief and Chief-of-Staff for
the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center and the Elk Grove
Outpatient Medical Facilities. In these roles, he is responsible for all
clinical operations throughout the inpatient and outpatient arenas. He provides
leadership for the 350 physicians and more than 2000 nurses and staff who care
for the 195,000 Kaiser Permanente members in the southern Sacramento area. In
his current role, Rich is responsible for all clinical, quality, and health
promotional activities. Previously, he served as the Northern California Kaiser
Permanente Chair of the Regional Chiefs’ Group for Head and Neck Surgery and
also Chief of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery for South Sacramento.
Rich joined Kaiser Permanente following the completion of his surgical training
in 1995. He is Board Certified in
Otolaryngology and has Advanced Certification in Head and Neck Oncologic
Surgery.
Rich
received his Bachelor of Science degree, with Distinction, from the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and his Doctor of Medicine degree,
with Honors, from Wayne State University in Detroit. He completed his Otolaryngology training in
New York at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital / New York
Hospital-Cornell Medical College.
Subsequently, he received his Head and Neck Oncologic and Skull Base
Surgical training from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and The
University of California, Davis. Rich is
also a 2004 graduate of the Kenan-Flagler School of Business Advanced
Leadership Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
His
specialties include: orbital, nasal, and maxillofacial surgery, as well as
thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Rich remains very active in clinical practice
and he functions as a regional resource for the management of advanced tumors
of the head and neck and he provides the otolaryngologic approach for tumors at
the skull base. Additionally, he is
trained in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive surgery and he has interest in
post-tumor facial reconstruction and facial reanimation surgery. Rich is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head
and Neck Surgery, and also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
The
Head and Neck Surgery Department of Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento, is an
affiliated institution of the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
and its Otolaryngology Residency Program.
Rich is actively involved in medical education and, for the past ten
years, has served as the Director of the Otolaryngology Residency Journal
Club. He has published several articles
in national publications and serves as a Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology
at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. Rich has been a Long-Term Director of The
Permanente Medical Group Board of Directors, Since April, 2005.
Honors and Awards:
1)
American Academy of Otolaryngology Presidential Award for scientific work on
Skull Base Surgical Approaches to Distal Carotid Artery Aneurisms, and
2)
Chosen as one of the top Otolaryngologists in Northern California by Sacramento
Magazine and by the American Consumer Reports survey of American Physicians.
