Dr. Frank Byrne will retire in January as president of St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wis., and other news makers

Dr. Frank Byrne will retire in January as president of St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wis.

Byrne, 62, has led St. Mary's for 10 years. During that time, the hospital has nearly doubled in size and received numerous accolades for quality of care, cardiovascular excellence and patient engagement. St. Mary's also opened an off-campus emergency department in suburban Sun Prairie, Wis., to serve the area's fast-growing population.

Before joining St. Mary's, Byrne held a variety of leadership roles at Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health. He had previously practiced pulmonary and critical-care medicine in the Fort Wayne area.

Byrne will remain on the St. Mary's Hospital Foundation board of directors.

Anthony Keck is leaving his post as director of South Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to become senior VP and chief development officer at Mountain States Health Alliance, Johnson City, Tenn. The change is effective in mid-December.

In the newly created position, Keck, 47, will oversee the system's population health management efforts in addition to corporate marketing and communications, the Mountain States Foundation, government programs and commercial business.

Keck's more than 25 years of healthcare experience includes stints as health policy adviser for South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. He also served as deputy secretary of Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals, as well as chief of staff to former health secretary Alan Levine

Dr. J. Stephen Jones has been named president of Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals and Family Health Centers.

Jones, 54, was previously VP of regional medical operations for the same division. He begins his new role in December, succeeding Dr. Brian Donley, who has been promoted to Cleveland Clinic's chief of staff, effective Jan. 1.

In his new role, Jones will be responsible for Cleveland Clinic's eight community hospitals, the new Avon Hospital—which is expected to open in 2016—and 16 family health centers in northeast Ohio.

Before his VP role, Jones was chief of surgical operations for the system's regional division, a position he also held at the clinic's Fairview Hospital.

Dr. Jay Redan has been named president of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, which advocates for minimally invasive surgery.

Redan, 54, is a general surgeon and medical director of minimally invasive surgery at Florida Hospital-Celebration Health, Kissimmee, and an associate professor of surgery at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. He replaced Dr. Robert Sweet.

During his yearlong term, Redan plans to address the cost-effectiveness of surgeries in the U.S., and explore the potential benefits from increased use of telemedicine technologies, he said.