Here are 30 leadership updates Becker's covered in March:
- Cleveland-based MetroHealth System appointed Michael Kelly, MD, as its chair of the department of neurosurgery.
- Isaiah Johnson, MD, was appointed chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Va.
- Ronald Place, MD, was named regional president and CEO of Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux Falls, S.D.
- Julian Kim, MD, was named president of Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health Cancer Institute, which includes 11 cancer clinic sites throughout the state and treats an estimated 8,000 cancer patients annually.
- Raul Ayala, MD, was selected as the new president of the California Academy of Family Physicians.
- Physician scientist George Jabboure Netto, MD, was named chair of pathology and laboratory medicine chair at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia.
- Steven Kalkanis, MD, was selected as Detroit-based Henry Ford Hospital's next CEO and executive vice president.
- Neil Friedman, MD, was named director of the Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's, one of the largest pediatric neuroscience programs in the country.
- Cormac Maher, MD, was named chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Stanford Medicine Children's Health in Palo Alto, Calif.
- Yatin Vyas, MD, was selected as the new vice president and physician leader for Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health Children's Hospital.
- Roger Mitty, MD, was named chief operating officer and president of Care New England Medical Group.
- Klane White, MD, was named chair of the department of pediatric orthopedics and the Rose Brown Endowed Chair of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora.
- Michael Silverstein, MD, was appointed vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
- Kerin Adelson, MD, joined the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston as its chief quality and value officer.
- McLaren Flint (Mich.) named Varsha Moudgal, MD, as its chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs.
- James Swift, MD, was appointed to Pediatrix Medical Group's board of directors.
- VarmX, a biotechnology company focused on the development of therapies to reverse blood coagulation, named Jeffery Lawson, MD, PhD, its chief scientific officer.
- Bruce Gewertz, MD, was named vice dean of clinical development and faculty affairs at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
- Maternova, a marketplace for innovative maternal and neonatal medical products, selected Gabriela Salvador, MD, as its new CEO and member of its board of directors.
- Nicole Lohr, MD, was appointed chair for the American College of Cardiology board of governors and a secretary of the organization's board of trustees.
- Elsie Taveras, MD, chief community health and health equity officer for Boston-based Mass General Brigham health system, was appointed to the Boston Public Health Commission's Board of Health.
- Fountain Life, a preventive healthcare artificial intelligence company, has appointed Mark Hyman, MD, to its medical advisory board.
- Vladimir Kalinichenko, MD, PhD, was selected to serve as director of the Phoenix Children's Research Institute at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.
- Sree Chaguturu, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer at CVS Health, was named chair-elect of the American Telemedicine Association's board of directors.
- Sharon Inouye, MD, was named editor-in-chief of JAMA Internal Medicine.
- Daniel Carey, MD, was appointed president of Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.
- Mark Freeman, MD, was selected as the new chief medical adviser for bioskills training and cadaver lab Axis Research & Technologies.
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed two physicians to the state's healthcare affordability board.
- Detroit-based Henry Ford Medical Group added Brien Smith, MD, as its chair of the department of neurology.
- Sean Pinney, MD, was named chief of cardiology at Mount Sinai Morningside in New York City.