Nancy Lundebjerg has been named CEO at the American Geriatrics Society.
Lundebjerg, 55, has served as the organization's COO since 2008 and has been with organization since 1998. She'll take over the top job in April, replacing Jennie Chin Hansen, who has been CEO for five years.
Previously, Lundebjerg was administrator of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Casey
Dr. Donald Casey Jr. has joined the healthcare group of Alvarez & Marsal, a professional services firm, as a managing director in the company's Chicago office, effective in November.
Casey, 62, an internist, comes to A&M after 19 years of clinical experience as well as senior leadership and consulting positions. He serves as an adviser to physicians and executives on accountability practices, population-health management, and quality outcomes measurement and improvement with commercial and government payers.
Before joining A&M, he was principal of consulting firm IPO4Health, a company he founded.
Flatt
B. Anderson Flatt has been named senior VP and CIO at Corizon Health, a correctional-facility healthcare provider based in Brentwood, Tenn.
Flatt, 52, started his new role with Corizon last month. He was most recently VP and CIO at Nashville-based Cigna-HealthSpring, which offers Medicare and Medicaid plans.
With more than 30 years of health information technology experience, Flatt served as CIO with AIM Healthcare Services, and held technology management positions with HCA and Baptist Hospital in Nashville. A former software developer, Flatt also cofounded MIQS, an electronic health-records company.
Tony Waskiewicz, chief investment officer at Mercy health system in St. Louis, has been named the healthcare industry's first Chief Investment Officer of the Year by Institutional Investor magazine and the Investor Intelligence Network.
Waskiewicz, 47, joined Mercy in his current role in 2010. He's responsible for overseeing the company's treasury department and managing its investment fund and pension plan.
Institutional Investor praised Waskiewicz for ensuring that Mercy's investment program was consistent with economic conditions. “To date he's delivered, beating Mercy's benchmark on a risk-adjusted basis, and with less volatility, since his arrival,” the magazine said in its profile of Waskiewicz.
Tim Schmidt has been named chief administrative officer at Bay Area Regional Medical, Webster, Texas, the newest acute-care hospital in the Houston Bay area.
Schmidt has more than 25 years of healthcare industry experience,18 of those years as CEO of acute-care hospitals within for-profit chain Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn.
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