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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America named Dr. William Chin executive VP of science and regulatory affairs, effective July 1. Chin, the executive dean for research at Harvard Medical School, will report to PhRMA President and CEO...
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Sister Judith Ann Karam, president and CEO of Sisters of Charity Health System since 1998, plans to resign July 26. Terrence Kessler, the Cleveland-based system's general counsel, will take over on an interim basis. Their ages weren't provided. The system includes three hospitals in...
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The American Psychiatric Association named Dr. Saul Levin to replace retiring CEO and medical director Dr. James Scully. Since July 2012, Levin has served as interim director of the District of Columbia Department of Health. He has been active with the APA since 1987, and he has...
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URAC, a Washington-based healthcare measurement and accreditation organization, has named Kylanne Green president and CEO, effective July 22. Green succeeds Alan Spielman, who left his post Feb. 15 after serving as president and CEO since 2005. Green, a nurse practitioner, previously...
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Robert Ritz was named president of Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines (Iowa). Ritz, 51, is president and CEO of St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Ill., operated by Springfield-based Hospital Sisters Health System. In Des Moines, he takes over leadership from Dave Vellinga, who has been...
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Dr. Thomas Lee, network president for Boston-based Partners HealthCare system and CEO of Partners Community Healthcare, will join Press Ganey on July 1 as chief medical officer, a new position at the company. Lee is a practicing cardiologist and co-chair of the Committee for Performance...
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Ascension Health, St. Louis, promoted Patricia Maryland to president of healthcare operations and COO, effective July 1. Maryland, 59, is the Michigan ministry market leader for Ascension Health and president and CEO of St. John Providence Health System in Detroit. In her new role, Maryland...
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Shirley Weis, VP and chief administrative officer for the Mayo Clinic, plans to retire by the end of the year. Weis, a former emergency room nurse and a veteran of healthcare management and managed-care operations, joined the Rochester, Minn.-based system in 1995 from the insurer Blue Care...
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Seton Healthcare Family, an Austin, Texas-based division of Ascension Health, named Jesus Garza CEO, effective July 1. Garza, 60, will also start providing oversight of Ascension's Arizona ministry, Carondelet Health Network, and continue serving as the ministry market leader for Ascension...
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Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine named Dr. Elliott Fisher to succeed Dr. James Weinstein as director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, effective immediately. Weinstein stepped down in November 2011 to become CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and...
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