Trinity Health appoints new clinical leaders

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health recently appointed a new chief clinical officer, as well as its first chief population health officer.

Dr. Mark Froimson, 54, has been chosen as CCO and Dr. Barbara Walters, 62, as CPHO, and they both will also become executive VPs. On Dec. 1, Froimson and Walters took over the responsibilities of retiring Chief Clinical Officer P. Terrence O'Rourke, who has been in the CCO role since 2008.

Froimson, an orthopedic surgeon, comes to Trinity Health after serving as president of Cleveland Clinic's Euclid (Ohio) Hospital. He has practiced medicine in the Cleveland Clinic system as well as at the Cleveland-based Mount Sinai Medical Center. He's also a member of the CMS National Resource Use Committee.

Walters most recently served as executive medical director of the Bedford, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system and chief medical officer of OneCare Vermont, a Colchester, Vt., an accountable care organization formed by Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Burlington, Vt.-based Fletcher Allen. She has also worked at Carolina-Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and taught as an adjunct clinical professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

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