Dr. Harvey Fineberg named president of Moore Foundation, and other news makers

Dr. Harvey Fineberg has been named president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a not-for-profit based in Palo Alto, Calif., that offers grants for projects to improve patient care. His appointment is effective in January.

Fineberg, 69, will replace Paul Gray, who will remain as vice chairman of the foundation's board of trustees.

Most recently, Fineberg completed two terms as president of the Institute of Medicine, from 2002 to this year. He holds the presidential chair as a visiting professor at the University of California at San Francisco and served as provost of Harvard University from 1997 to 2001. Before that, he was dean of the Harvard School of Public Health for 13 years.

He's also a founder and past president of the Society for Medical Decision Making and has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization.

Dr. Jerome Adams, an anesthesiologist with Eskenazi Health, Indianapolis, has been appointed commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health.

Adams, 40, is an assistant professor of clinical anesthesia at Indiana University's school of medicine and chairman of the pharmacy and therapeutics committee at Eskenazi. He succeeds Dr. William VanNess.

Adams has served as president of the Young Physicians Society of the Indiana State Medical Association as well as its assistant treasurer. Before working at Eskenazi, he served as a general anesthesiologist at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Ind., and as a physician rapid responder at Indianapolis Orthopaedic Hospital.

Dr. Michael Williams has been named chief medical information officer at the University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville.

Williams, 37, a pediatrician, will manage information technology systems at the academic medical center and serve as a liaison between IT staff and clinical staff.

Williams has served as a regional CMIO for North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Great Neck, N.Y., since March 2012. He also was the first CMIO at the Medical Center of Central Georgia, the flagship facility of Navicent Health in Macon.

Dr. Robert Wergin has been installed as president of the American Academy of Family Physicians and Dr. Wanda Filer was chosen as president-elect.

Wergin, 60, maintains an “obstetrics-to-geriatrics” family medicine practice in Milford, Neb., and is medical director of the Crest View Care Center skilled-nursing center in Milford.

Filer, 55, is a family physician in York, Pa., and is founding president of the Strategic Health Institute of York, a consulting firm. She bested Dr. Daniel Spogen, 62, of Reno, Nev., in a contested election for the post of president-elect.