Richard Isaacs MD

Professional Bio
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.