Purdue Healthcare Advisors names Mark Clare principal adviser, and other newsmakers

Mark Clare has been named principal adviser for strategic initiatives at Purdue Healthcare Advisors in West Lafayette, Ind.

Clare, 56, will oversee performance-improvement offerings for the firm, which is affiliated with Purdue University. He also will be responsible for strategic planning and service development.

Before joining the firm, Clare worked as VP of operational excellence and informatics at Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health and as VP of Lean transformation at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Ind.

Dr. Jeff Sperring has been named the next CEO at Seattle Children's Hospital.

Sperring, 45, is currently president and CEO of Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis. Starting in early May, he'll replace

Dr. Thomas Hansen, who will retire as CEO at Seattle Children's, but continue to serve as a scientific investigator in the Seattle Children's Research Institute.

Sperring comes to the pediatric institution after 13 years at Riley. As CEO, he oversaw the construction of the facility's $500 million Simon Family Tower and helped expand the hospital's services throughout Indiana. Before becoming Riley's CEO, Sperring served as its chief medical officer, associate CMO and director of pediatric hospital medicine.

Dr. Howard Bailey has been named director of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center.

Bailey has served as interim director of the center since September 2013, when Dr. George Wilding resigned to focus on academics at the university. Bailey's role will become permanent April 1.

An 11-year veteran at UW, Bailey is a medical oncologist who specializes in gynecologic and soft-tissue cancers, in addition to serving as a professor of medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. He has worked under Dr. Paul Carbone, the namesake of the cancer center.

Bailey led the development of three state and national clinical-research networks and is currently national chairman of the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Cancer Prevention Committee.

Michael Malouf has been named president of Anthem's dental insurance business.

Malouf, 54, has replaced Dani Fjelstad, who is now VP of the Indianapolis-based insurance giant's managed dental business.

Before joining Anthem, Malouf was CEO of Dearborn National Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp. He also served as CEO of Willis of Illinois, a Chicago-based insurance consulting firm, and held numerous positions at New York City-based MetLife.

Pete Clemens, CFO of Surgical Care Affiliates, will retire from the Deerfield, Ill.-based company later this year.

Clemens, who will turn 50 this month, has been at SCA, a for-profit operator of ambulatory surgery centers, for more than three years. He was part of the management team that took SCA public in late 2013. He previously worked at CVS Caremark for 15 years.