13 leadership updates outside the C-suite in April

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

1. Phoenix Children's selected Christina Conrad, DO, to serve as medical director for its freestanding emergency department in Avondale, Ariz.
2. Alejandro Quiroga, MD, has been named president of Corewell Health West in Michigan.
3. New York City-based Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at New York University Langone added three physicians to its Hassenfeld Children's Hospital and the NYU Langone Transplant Institute to establish the Pediatric Liver Disease and Transplant Program.
4. Four physicians from the University of California Los Angeles were elected to the Association of American Physicians.
5. Illinois emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones, MD, was selected for a yearlong study with NASA.
6. Karen Shelton, MD, was appointed Virginia's state health commissioner by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
7. Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics appointed three physicians to leadership positions within the health system.
8. Jason Fish, MD, was named the next CEO of New Haven, Conn.-based Yale Health. 
9. Robert Goldstein, MD, PhD, was appointed commissioner of the Massachusetts Public Health Department.
10. Greg Armstrong, MD, was named chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
11. J. Nathan Hagstrom, MD, was appointed the new regional director of the mid-Atlantic region of federally funded hemophilia treatment centers.
12. Michael Roehrl, MD, PhD, was named chief of the department of pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. 
13. Devon Ramaeker, MD, was appointed division chief of maternal fetal medicine within the Allegheny Health Network's Women's Institute in Pittsburgh.