Here are 13 leadership updates Becker's has reported on in April:

Thomas Shockley, MD, has been named the inaugural chief health equity officer of Cincinnati-based health system TriHealth, according to an April 27 report from the Cincinnati Business Courier.

Phoenix Children's selected Christina Conrad, DO, and Theresa Asta, MSN, RN, to lead its freestanding emergency department in Avondale, Ariz. 

From CEOs to chief medical officers, here are 12 physicians who took on C-suite appointments Becker's reported on in April:

Alejandro Quiroja, MD, has been named president of Corewell Health West in Michigan, effective May 1.

New York City-based Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at New York University Langone has added three physicians to its Hassenfeld Children's Hospital and the NYU Langone Transplant Institute to establish the Pediatric Liver Disease and Transplant Program. 

John Corman, MD, has been appointed senior vice president and chief clinical officer of Pasadena, Calif.-based Huntington Health, an affiliate of Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai.

George Dickstein, MD, a gastroenterologist at Boston Endoscopy Center and chair of the Department of Medicine at MetroWest Medical Center in Natick, Mass., recently shared five ways to ensure success when managing a practice, from proper staffing levels to cost-cutting techniques to the case for working alongside — rather than against — hospitals.

Four physicians from the University of California Los Angeles have been elected to the Association of American Physicians.

Anaeze Offodile, MD, has been appointed chief strategy officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Illinois emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones, MD, has been selected for a yearlong study with NASA, according to an April 21 report from ABC affiliate WICS.

Oncologist Richard McDonough, MD, is the recipient of the 2023 Dorothy Green Phillips Legacy Award from the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology.

Karen Shelton, MD, has been appointed Virginia's state health commissioner by Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Lindsay Grier Arthur, MD, has been named chair of the department of surgery at Saint Peter's University Hospital and surgeon-in-chief for The Children's Hospital at Saint Peter's in New Brunswick, N.J.

Alex Jahangir, MD, currently serves as vice chair of orthopedic surgery and director of the division of orthopedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., and recently received the William W. Tipton Jr., MD, Leadership Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics has appointed three physicians to leadership positions within the health system.

University of Louisville (Ky.) Health Chief Medical Officer Jason Smith, MD, PhD, has joined the call for stricter regulations on firearms, according to an April 12 report from the Lexington Herald Leader.

Cellarity, a life sciences company, named a new chief data officer, CFO and two department vice presidents.

Jason Fish, MD, will serve as the next CEO of New Haven, Conn.-based Yale Health. 

Nine physician billionaires made Forbes' 37th annual list of the world's richest people in 2023.