From awards to appointments, here are nine leadership updates Becker's has reported on since June 1:
- Pam Oliver, MD, was named executive vice president and chief medical officer of Charlotte, N.C.-based Novant Health.
- Eugene Hong, MD, was named chief medical officer of World Lacrosse, the international governing body of lacrosse spanning across 83 nations.
- President Joe Biden appointed Mandy Cohen, MD, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, as director of the CDC.
- Rajiv Patel, MD, was appointed CEO of Stillwater, Minn.-based Bluestone Physician Services, the largest on-site primary care provider for assisted living communities in the country with locations in Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
- Daniel Worrel, MD, was named the 2023 NBA team physician of the year by the National Basketball Athletics Trainers Association.
- Bruce Scott, MD, an otolaryngologist from Kentucky, was named president-elect of the American Medical Association.
- Todd Smith, MD, was appointed the inaugural chief physician executive of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health.
- Former Permanente Medical Group CEO Richard Isaacs, MD, was named dean of the California Northstate University School of Medicine in Elk Grove.
- Robert Harrington, MD, was appointed the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.