Nurse practitioners working in the hospital inpatient setting earned the highest wages in 2021 at $126,000 on average, according to Medscape's 2022 APRN Compensation Report. 

The majority of self-employed physicians say their favorite thing about the job is having lots of autonomy, according to Medscape's newest "Self-Employed Physicians Report," which surveyed over 740 physicians across the country. 

Workflow Services, an automated platform focused on service delivery for pharmacies, named former CVS Health Senior Vice President Nancy Gagliano, MD, as an adviser.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds named plastic surgeon Eugene Cherny, MD, to the Iowa Board of Medicine, Dr. Cherny shared in a Nov. 10 email to Becker's. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Emergency Care Specialists offers its employees the opportunity to take a sabbatical, giving them month-long blocks of paid time off, according to a Nov. 9 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Reading, Penn.-based Tower Health has named Eugene Reilly, MD, as its new vice president and chief medical information officer, according to a Nov. 10 report from local news station BCTV.

Scholar Rock, a clinical-stage biopharma company focused on the treatment of diseases in which protein growth plays a large role, has named Jing Marantz, MD, PhD, as chief medical officer.

Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health has named Joe Garcia, MD, associate vice president for research at UF Health and the inaugural Herbert A. Wertheim Professor of Inflammation Science.

Here are five physician moves since Nov. 1: 

Hawaii has the highest value-based purchasing score, a metric established by the Affordable Care Act to measure quality of care and number of services provided by hospitals, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare. 

Lafayette, La.-based physician Robert Cao, MD, has pleaded guilty to five felony counts of unlawful controlled substance distributions, the U.S. Justice Department said Nov. 8. 

Sarasota, Fla.-based CAN Community Health, a healthcare system with clinics in six states, including Florida and South Carolina, added Steven Barnett, MD, as its chief medical officer. 

Thirty-eight percent of medical residents said work schedule is the most important consideration when choosing their first position, according to Medscape's "Residents Lifestyle & Happiness Report 2022."

Autoimmune biopharmaceutical company Find Therapeutics has assembled a clinical advisory board to support its FTX-101 program. 

Eye health and safety nonprofit, Prevent Blindness, has appointed Jim McGrann as its chair, and added Susan Primo, OD, and Susan Stone to its board of directors. 

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $1 million, six-month grant to Jay Varma, MD, to study how countries around the world monitored and responded to COVID-19. 

The University of California San Francisco has established an endowment named in honor of Marcus Conant, MD, for HIV dermatology and LGBTQ health research. 

Harvard MedTech, a neurological-focused digital health company, has appointed Stephen Fisher, MD, to its medical advisory board. 

Elucid, a medtech imaging company using artificial intelligence to diagnose cardiovascular disease, has appointed Michael Lesh, MD, to its board.

Thirty-one percent of medical residents are struggling to maintain a work-life balance, according to Medscape's "Residents Lifestyle & Happiness Report 2022."