Not-for-profit health system Baylor Scott & White Health named Pat Currie president and COO of its Central Texas division. In her new role, Currie will provide day-to-day operational leadership for the system's hospitals and clinics in that region. Since 2004, she has served as COO of Scott & White Healthcare, which merged with Baylor Health Care System in October to create the 43-Texas hospital system. Currie declined to provide her age.
Dr. Richard Lofgren will succeed James Kingsbury next month as president and CEO of UC Health, Cincinnati Lofgren, 59, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and healthcare administrator who most recently served as senior VP and chief clinical officer for the University HealthSystem Consortium in Chicago.
The University of Cincinnati established the system and named Kingsbury CEO in 2010 after the breakup of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati. UC Health operates four hospitals, including University Hospital in Cincinnati, which is part of UHC.
Dr. Steven Rosen was chosen to become the first provost and chief scientific officer at City of Hope, a comprehensive cancer center in Duarte, Calif.
Rosen, 61, is currently director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
On March 1, Rosen will take leadership of City of Hope's cancer center, the Beckman Research Institute and the Irell and Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences.
Gary Fingerhut was named executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, a subsidiary of the not-for-profit system that commercializes its medical advances. Fingerhut has been acting executive director since April, when Chris Coburn left to join Partners HealthCare in Boston.
Fingerhut joined Cleveland Clinic Innovations as its general manager for IT commercialization in 2011. He previously was co-founder and general manager of regulatory compliance software maker Axentis, a Cleveland company acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2009.
