|
|
People
on the Move
Dates included below correspond to the issue of AIS’s Health Business Daily in which “People News” appeared.
Sept. 1, 2010
-
National Vision Administrators, L.L.C. named Mark Dickey vice president, sales. Dickey comes to NVA with 15 plus years of vision benefits and pharmacy benefit management sales and operational management experience....PharmaVentures Ltd. appointed Paul Phull senior director. Phull was executive vice president, international operations at Sinclair Pharma plc., a U.K.-based specialty pharmaceutical company.
Aug. 31, 2010
-
Medical device company CAS Medical Systems, Inc. named Thomas M. Patton president and CEO and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Current President and CEO Andrew E. Kersey resigned on Aug. 27. Patton was CEO at Wright Medical Group, an orthopedic device company.…PharmaNet Development Group, Inc., a drug development services company, appointed Anthony Maida vice president, clinical research. Most recently, Maida ran his own consulting firm providing both pharmaceutical product development and capital raising capabilities to pharmaceutical firms, working with venture capital funds and investment banks.
Aug. 30, 2010
-
NMT Medical, Inc., a medical technology company, named Richard E. Davis chairman, president and CEO. Davis was chief operating officer. He replaces James J. Mahoney, Jr., who resigned as chairman of the board and as a director, as well as Frank Martin, who retired as president and CEO, and as a director.…Novella Clinical Inc. appointed Jane Bentley vice president, clinical operations. Bentley was senior therapeutic director for oncology at i3.
Aug. 27, 2010
-
Todd Hurt has been promoted to vice president of provider contracting at Prime Health Services, Inc. Hurt was director of provider contracting.…West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton, Fla., appointed Margaret Neddo emergency department director. Neddo was clinical manager of emergency services at Delray Medical Center.
Aug. 26, 2010
-
Caris Life Sciences, Inc., a biosciences company, named Winston K.C. Lam executive vice president of business development and chief legal officer. Lam was group vice president and associate general counsel for the global pharmaceutical business unit at Schering-Plough Corp....Bioanalytical Systems, Inc., a pharmaceutical development company, appointed Alberto Hidalgo vice president, business development and marketing. Most recently, Hidalgo consulted with companies to develop and implement new sales and marketing strategies.
Aug. 25, 2010
-
Alston & Bird said Aug. 23 that Kimberly Brandt, director of CMS’s Medicare Program Integrity Group, and Michael Park, a health policy counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, have joined the firm’s health care practice.…Fluidnet Corp., a developer of intravenous infusion systems, appointed Benjamin E. Bulkley president and CEO. He succeeds the company's founder, Jeffrey Carlisle, who will serve as chief innovation officer. Bulkley was chief operating officer at Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Aug. 24, 2010
-
Kaiser Permanente named Charles Larsen vice president of product management, and promoted Shawn Mehta to vice president of operations. Larsen was senior director of product development at Blue Shield of California. Prior to Mehta's appointment as vice president, he led Kaiser Permanente’s self-funding program in the two California regions.…Magellan Health Services, Inc. appointed David W. Carter senior vice president of marketing and communications, effective Aug. 30. Carter was vice president of corporate communications at Aetna Inc.
Aug. 23, 2010
-
The National Institutes of Health promoted Lawrence A. Tabak to principal deputy director. Tabak was the acting director of NIH’s Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiative.…Envision Telepharmacy, LLC named Lynn Staggs pharmacy operations manager. Staggs was chief operations officer at CompleteRx Ltd.
Aug. 20, 2010
-
Protectus Medical Devices, Inc., a developer and marketer of medical devices, named Dan Hartley, M.D., medical director. He has served as a clinical data auditor and has held senior level clinical research associate positions at several major pharmaceutical companies, according to Protectus.…Minnetronix, Inc., a medical device design and manufacturing firm, appointed Joe Renzetti chief operating officer. Renzetti was president at Specialty Construction Brands.
Aug. 19, 2010
-
Alimera Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, promoted Richard S. Eiswirth, Jr. to chief operating officer, and David R. Holland to senior vice president of sales and marketing. Eiswirth will continue his position as chief financial officer in addition to his new role.…CareSource, a nonprofit managed care company, named Gail Croall, M.D., senior medical director of quality and care management. Croall was chief medical officer at OptumHealth Care Solutions, a business unit of UnitedHealth Group.
Aug. 18, 2010
-
US Oncology, Inc. named John E. Osborn executive vice president and general counsel, effective Aug. 23, and Asif Ahmad executive vice president of technology services, effective Sept. 20. Osborn was executive vice president and general counsel at Cephalon, Inc. Ahmad has been at Duke University since 2003, where he serves as vice president of diagnostic services and chief information officer....The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America appointed Patricia McLaughlin vice president of interactive media and communications. McLaughlin was director of global branding at AIG.
Aug. 17, 2010
-
Sterling Health Services Administration appointed Chris Childs vice president of sales to focus on expansion of its business into Texas and the Midwest. Childs was regional sales director at Humana Inc....HealthMedia, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company that offers a Web-based digital health coaching tool to employers and health plans, said Sanjay Gupta will assume leadership for the company. Gupta was managing director of emerging markets in Asia Pacific for the J&J Vision Care franchise.
Aug. 16, 2010
-
MedStar Health, non-profit healthcare organization and a community-based network of seven hospitals, appointed Kenneth A. Samet president and CEO. He was the organization’s chief operating officer….RedBrick Health, the Health Earnings company, hired Gregg Waldon as chief financial officer and Glen Gunderson as chief business officer. Waldon was senior vice president and chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer for SoftBrands. Gunderson was vice president of strategic business development at Life Time Fitness.
Aug. 13, 2010
-
Radient Pharmaceuticals Corp. appointed Gary Giarratano director of North American sales and marketing. Giarratano was the molecular diagnostic specialist at QIAGEN....Touch Medix, LLC, a developer of emergency department information systems, named Stephen Miley, M.D., chief medical director and executive vice president of development. Miley was a founder of Physician Computer Systems, Inc., a developer of software for automation of physician's offices.
Aug. 12, 2010
-
Aetna Inc. named Wayne Rawlins, M.D., national medical director of racial and ethnic equality initiatives. Rawlins was also invited to serve as a member of the National Quality Forum’s Cultural Competency Expert Panel.…Medicaid operator AMERIGROUP Corp. appointed retired Admiral Joseph W. Prueher and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snow to the company's board of directors. Both are up for re-election in 2011.
Aug. 11, 2010
-
Coventry Health Care named Heidi Arndt director of Medicaid operations. Arndt was director at CMS's Division of Special Programs....Kendle International Inc., a clinical research organization, appointed Michael J. Gallagher, M.D., vice president and global head of medical affairs. Gallagher was global gastrointestinal therapeutic area group leader at ICON Clinical Research.
Aug. 10, 2010
-
MedImmune, the biologics unit of AstraZeneca PLC, named Scott Carmer executive vice president of commercial operations. Carmer was a vice president of sales and marketing at Genentech's rheumatology unit....Kettering Health Network promoted Fred Manchur to CEO, effective Dec. 1. He will replace Frank Perez, who is retiring. In addition to his CEO position, Manchur will continue serving as president and chief operating officer.
Aug. 9, 2010
-
Cameron Health, in San Clemente, Calif., named Mitch C. Hill chief financial officer (CFO). Hill was vice president and CFO at Visiogen, Inc....Hana Biosciences, a biopharmaceutical company, appointed Robert Spiegel, M.D., to its board of directors. Spiegel was with Schering Plough for 26 years where he was chief medical officer.
Aug. 6, 2010
-
Danville Regional Medical Center in Danville, Va., named Cherie Epperson Sibley chief operating officer (COO), effective Oct. 1. Sibley was COO at Vaughan Regional Medical Center in Selma, Ala....Geisinger Health Plan appointed George Schneider chief financial officer (CFO). Schneider was CFO at Mercy Health Plans in St. Louis.
Aug. 5, 2010
-
InQ Biosciences Corp. appointed John Ryder senior vice president of sales and marketing. Ryder was senior vice president of sales at Skyscape.…Wolf Medical Systems, a developer of electronic medical records software for physician offices and medical clinics, named James Watson vice president of sales and marketing. Watson was vice president of sales at Extreme CCTV.
Aug. 4, 2010
-
Omnicare, Inc. said Joel F. Gemunder, president and CEO has retired. James D. Shelton, a director of the company and the former chairman and CEO at Triad Hospitals, Inc., will assume Gemunder's responsibilities on an interim basis until a permanent replacement is named....Medical Connections Holdings, Inc. promoted Jeffrey Rosenfeld to CEO. Rosenfeld was chief operating officer.
Aug. 3, 2010
- MEDecision, Inc., a developer of health care management tools, said its founder, David St.Clair, will leave retirement to become interim CEO. St.Clair replaces Scott A. Storrer, who resigned to pursue other interests. St.Clair will remain in the position during the search for Storrer's permanent replacement....Aragon Pharmaceuticals named company co-founder Richard A. Heyman CEO. Additionally, Ronald M. Evans and David J. Mangelsdorf were appointed to Aragon's scientific advisory board.
Aug. 2, 2010
-
Peter J. Plantes, M.D., has joined University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as vice president for medical affairs and executive director of the medical service, research and development plan. He succeeds Bruce A. Meyer, M.D., who was named executive vice president for health system affairs at UT Southwestern. Plantes was vice president of clinical affairs in the business operations division at VHA Inc....Anthem Blue Cross in California named Pam Kehaly president and general manager. Kehaly was president of national accounts for Aetna Inc.
July 30, 2010
-
CMP Therapeutics named Neill Moray Mackenzie, Ph.D., CEO. Mackenzie was CEO at Roji Ltd in London....Calistoga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. appointed Langdon L. Miller, M.D., executive vice president of research and development. Miller was chief medical officer at PTC Therapeutics.
July 29, 2010
-
American Medical Response appointed Edward Racht, M.D., chief medical officer (CMO). Racht was vice president of medical affairs and CMO at Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Atlanta....Shared Health, Inc., a health IT firm, named Justin L. Neece chief operating officer. Neece was a partner at The Viability Co., a health care consulting firm.
July 28, 2010
-
Rick Jelinek has been named executive vice president and CEO of UnitedHealth Group's new Emerging Businesses Group. He was CEO of AmeriChoice, United's Medicaid subsidiary. Jack Larsen will take on Jelinek's former position, and Tom Paul has been named CEO of United's Medicare business....Gentris Corp., an applied clinical pharmacogenomics firm, appointed Karen Weck, M.D., as a consulting medical director. Weck is affiliated with the University of North Carolina, as director for molecular genetics, associate director of molecular pathology for the school of medicine, and associate director of the UNC Institute of Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy.
July 27, 2010
-
UCare, a Minnesota-based operator of health plans for government programs, especially Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans, named Hilary Marden-Resnik senior vice president of administration. She replaced Terry Chism, who joined UCare in 1996, and will retire in early August. Marden-Resnik was vice president of human resources at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.…Bryan Miller, chief actuary for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, and Cheryl Dillard, director of government relations for Coventry Health Care, Inc., will serve on the board for the Missouri Health Insurance Pool, which operates two high-risk insurance pools. Other board members include Missouri Insurance Director John Huff.
July 26, 2010
-
Leslie Margolin, president of Anthem Blue Cross in California, resigned on July 20. She will lead Transforming Health Care, a coalition of health care providers, hospitals and consumer advocates....CIGNA Corp. named former HSBC Holdings executive Jason Sadler to lead its International Health, Life & Accident operations. Sadler will be based in Hong Kong.
July 23, 2010
-
Miami Jewish Health Systems promoted Jean Kramer to executive director of residential living and social services. Kramer was director of social work....Nuvon, a medical device data integration and interoperability tools company, named Deborah L. Leyva clinical solutions executive. Leyva was an RN infomatics consultant at LawTechTV.
July 22, 2010
-
AMERIGROUP Corp. named Patrick McIntyre senior vice president of health care economics, Angel Oddo vice president of quality management, and Maureen McDonnell vice president of the Office of Health Reform Integration. McIntyre was vice president of health care analytics at UnitedHealth Group, Oddo was a vice president of quality and health services at Coventry Health Care, Inc., and McDonnell was a consultant to non-profit organizations and political candidates.…Massachusetts-based Cambridge Health Alliance promoted Gerald Steinberg, M.D., to chief medical officer. Steinberg was chief medical quality officer and senior medical director.
July 21, 2010
-
Ken Piaggio joined Wolf Medical Systems, a developer of electronic medical records software, as vice president of client services. Piaggio was vice president of operations at Circon Systems....Casenet, a health management tools company, named Ruth Rose senior vice president of product development. Rose was vice president of implementation and technology at Health Management Corp., a wholly owned care management subsidiary of WellPoint, Inc.
July 20, 2010
-
Regional retail pharmacy chain Kerr Drug named Dick Domann vice president of sales and business for its Kerr Health business unit. Domann was vice president of channel sales at GlaxoSmithKline....Covington, La.-based Fairway Medical Surgical Hospital appointed Mary Englehardt director of marketing and public relations. Englehardt is a recent graduate of Louisiana State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Marketing.
July 19, 2010
-
Liz Fowler, a former WellPoint, Inc. vice president, was named deputy director at HHS's Office of Consumer Information. She most recently served as chief counsel on health for the Senate Finance Committee.... Alan Bennett, former chief financial officer (CFO) at Aetna Inc., has returned to his post as CEO of H&R Block Inc. of Kansas City. He spent six years as Aetna's CFO before retiring in 2007.
July 16, 2010
July 15, 2010
-
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) named John J. Castellani president and CEO, effective Sept. 1. Castellani was president and CEO at the Business Roundtable, an association of corporate CEOs. He will succeed Billy Tauzin, who transitioned to a role as senior advisor earlier this year....Healthwise promoted Martin J. Gabica, M.D., to chief medical officer. Gabica was a medical director and associate medical director.
July 14, 2010
-
McDermott Will & Emery hired James S. Cohen as a partner of its health industry advisory and life sciences and medical devices practice groups, and as a leader of its FDA practice in Washington, D.C. Cohen spent more than 17 years in senior FDA regulatory positions, including as deputy and acting director for the Office of Compliance and Biologics Quality at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and as CBER's associate chief counsel for enforcement, drugs and biologics....The American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society named Keith Wapner, M.D., president. Wapner is clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and adjunct professor at Drexel College of Medicine.
July 13, 2010
-
Myriad Genetics, Inc., a molecular diagnostic company, appointed Gary A. King executive vice president of international operations. King was CEO at AverDx Inc....The Emergency Nurses Assn. named Gail Pisarcik Lenehan president-elect, Jason Moretz secretary/treasurer, and Kathleen Carlson, Marylou Killian and Ellen H. Encapera directors. Lenehan is a nurse clinical specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Moretz is emergency department director at Upstate Carolina Medical Center, Carlson is a staff nurse at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, Killian is a nurse practitioner at Margaretville Memorial Hospital and Encapera is a clinical nurse at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian.
July 12, 2010
-
SynCardia Systems, Inc., a medical technology company, named Michael Garippa president. Garippa was CEO and president at TandemHeart....Biotechnology Industry Organization promoted Sara Radcliffe to executive vice president of health and Lila Feisee to vice president for global intellectual property policy. Radcliffe was vice president of science and regulatory affairs, and Feisee was director of federal government relations and intellectual property.
July 9, 2010
-
Jill Bernstein joined the Center for Studying Health System Change as a senior health policy analyst. Bernstein was an independent health policy analyst and former senior research associate at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)....The National Assn. of Psychiatric Health Systems named Kathleen McCann, R.N., Ph.D., director of quality and regulatory affairs. During her career as a registered nurse, McCann has practiced in both medical/surgical and psychiatric clinical settings.
July 8, 2010
-
President Obama on July 7 bypassed Congress with the recess appointment of Donald Berwick, M.D., as administrator of CMS. Berwick is president and CEO at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School and professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health....Health Information Management Systems Society appointed Mac McMillan chair of HIMSS's privacy and security steering committee. McMillian is co-founder and CEO of CynergisTek.
July 7, 2010
- Health care IT company Diversinet Corp. appointed Mark Trigsted executive vice president of health care. Trigsted was executive vice president of business development at 1-800-DOCTORS.... Irish drugmaker Elan Corp. named Eliseo Oreste Salinas, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer (CMO). Salinas was senior vice president of research and development and CMO at Adolor Corp.
July 6, 2010
- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center appointed Raj Mehta chief financial officer (CFO). Mehta was CFO at Medina Memorial Healthcare System in Medina, N.Y.... Bovie Medical Corp., a manufacturer and marketer of electrosurgical products, named Jeff Rencher vice president of sales and marketing for surgical products. Rencher was vice president of sales and marketing at Opticon Medical, Inc.
July 2, 2010
- Garry M. Olney has joined Austin Regional Clinic as chief operating officer. Olney was corporate vice president of patient care services at Tenet Healthcare Corp. in Dallas....Symmetry Medical, Inc., a developer of products for the orthopedic device industry, appointed Jose Fernandez senior vice president of new product development. Fernandez was vice president of research and development at Disc Motion Technologies.
July 1, 2010
- U.S. HealthWorks, an operator of occupational health care centers, named Kevin Coyle general counsel. Since 1999, Coyle has been a partner at DLA Piper LLP and its predecessor firms, Graham & James, and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in Sacramento, Calif.…A-Life Medical, Inc., a developer of computer-assisted coding products and services, appointed Rand Smith director of finance and administration and Maryagnes Marek director of sales. Smith was controller and corporate secretary at iMetrikus, Inc. and Marek was vice president of coding at MedQuist. The company promoted Craig Scott to director of engineering and information technology. Scott was engineering manager.
June 30, 2010
-
Thomas E. Hutchinson has joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP as a managing director in its health care practice. Hutchinson comes to Sonnenschein from CMS, where he served as director of the Medicare plan payment group....Medicare Advantage and Medicaid health plan CareSource named Mark R. Chilson executive vice president and general counsel. He was a partner with Bricker and Ekler, as well as Young and Alexander, and has represented CareSource since its founding in 1989.
June 29, 2010
-
Cleveland BioLabs, Inc. appointed Michael Paterno director of clinical operations. Paterno was manager, pharmaceutical clinical science at Bausch & Lomb, Inc....BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee named Ian W. Bushell, M.D., corporate medical director for the East Tennessee region. Bushell was senior medical director at Coventry Health Care in Virginia.
June 28, 2010
-
Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc. named Rick Bates president and chief operating officer (COO) and Nick Grujich executive vice president of strategic business operations. Bates was executive vice president and Grujich was executive vice president and COO.... Slidell Memorial Hospital in St. Tammany Parish, La., appointed Carol McCullough chief nursing officer (CNO). McCullough was CNO at Central Mississippi Medical.
June 25, 2010
-
The American Nurses Assn. elected Karen Daley to serve a two-year term as president. Daley is a past president of the Massachusetts Assn. of Registered Nurses and a past president of the Massachusetts Nurses Assn....CalciMedica, a biotechnology company, named Steven L. Schoenfeld, M.D., vice president of clinical development. Schoenfeld served as vice president for clinical and regulatory affairs at CovX Research.
June 24, 2010
- KemPharm, Inc. appointed Todd J. Johnson chief commercial officer. Johnson, a current member of the company's board of directors, was director of research and development and controlled substances at Cambrex Corp....Ablexis, LLC, a biotechnology company, appointed R. Scott Greer chairman of the board and Richard Hoffman chief business officer. Hoffman is a co-founder of Phylogix, TargetRx and Keel Pharmaceuticals, where he served as CEO.
June 23, 2010
- AccentHealth named Daniel A. Stone CEO and a member of its board. Stone was president and CEO at Imaginova, a venture-backed digital media and ecommerce company focused on science and technology....The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute appointed Helen Matheny director of its Alzheimer's Outreach and Registry Program. Matheny was CEO at the West Virginia Medical Foundation, the educational and charitable organization of the West Virginia State Medical Assn.
June 22, 2010
-
Cal eConnect, a private nonprofit corporation created by California to ensure physicians, hospitals, and patients have access to medical record information, named Carladenise Armbrister Edwards CEO. Edwards was Georgia's health information technology coordinator.... Celsion Corp., a biotechnology drug development company, appointed Jeffrey Church vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Church was CFO at Alba Therapeutics.
June 21, 2010
- A-Life Medical, Inc., a developer of computer-assisted coding products and services to the health care industry, named Bill Sheehan director of product management. Sheehan was staff product manager at Kyocera Wireless Corp....Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. appointed Tomo Hasegawa director, Ultrasound Business Unit. Hasegawa was director of strategic marketing at SonoSite, Inc.
June 18, 2010
-
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) promoted Alan W. Milligan to chief actuary. Milligan has been serving as interim chief actuary since the retirement of Ron Seeling in March....The American Medical Association named Peter Carmel, M.D., president-elect. Carmel is a pediatric neurosurgeon who serves as chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the New Jersey Medical School and co-medical director of the Neurological Institute of New Jersey. Carmel will become AMA president in June 2011.
June 17, 2010
-
Former UnitedHealthcare CEO Robert Sheehy has been appointed to Univita Health's board of directors....BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee named David Ellis regional director for the small-group account management team in the company's Nashville office. Ellis began his 17-year career at the Blues plan in the claims processing unit....Robert Greczyn, who retired in February as CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, was named to the board of directors of Raleigh-based TrustAtlantic Bank. Greczyn had headed the Blues plan for more than a decade
June 16, 2010
-
MedImmune, the biologics unit for AstraZeneca PLC, named Ron Laufer, M.D., senior managing director of MedImmune Ventures, the company's venture capital arm. He was a co-founder of Lilly Ventures, Eli Lilly and Co.'s corporate venture capital fund....MediciNova, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, appointed Michael Coffe chief business officer. Coffee has served as a consultant to company since March.
June 15, 2010
-
Kate Rubin will join UnitedHealth Group on June 28 as vice president of social responsibility and also will be named executive director of UnitedHealth Foundation. Rubin was president and CEO of the Minnesota High Tech Association....Detroit-based Health Alliance Plan named David Scott senior vice president, chief operating officer (COO) and appointed Mary Ann Tournoux senior vice president, chief marketing officer. They will assume their roles in July. Scott was vice president of operations at Highmark Inc., and also has worked for CIGNA Corp. and Aetna Inc. Tournoux was vice president of sales and marketing at Health Alliance Medical Plan in Urbana, Ill.
June 14, 2010
-
Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Conn., named Lisa M. Brady vice president and chief operating officer and Eric M. Mazur vice president and chief medical officer. Brady was vice president of planning and business development and Mazur was vice president of clinical integration....Medical device company Unilife Corp. appointed R. Richard Wieland II executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). He replaces Dan Calvert, who is relocating to Indiana. Wieland was CFO at Cytochroma Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company.
June 11, 2010
-
House Ear Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing hearing science through research and education, promoted Neil Segil to executive vice president of research. For the past several months, Segil has taken on the additional responsibilities of interim director for the division of cell biology and genetics as well as co-executive vice president of research....ProChon Biotech, Ltd., a developer of tissue regenerative technologies, named Brian Callahan executive vice president of regulatory and quality affairs. Callahan was founder and principle at EEC & Associates, a global compliance consulting firm for the medical device, pharmaceutical and biologics industries.
June 10, 2010
-
Ikaria, Inc., a biotherapeutics company, appointed Geoffrey Nichol, M.D., chief medical officer. Nichol was senior vice president of product development at Medarex, Inc....Lanx, Inc., a privately held medical device company, named Michael DeMane chairman and CEO. Co-founder and former CEO Michael Fulton will assume the role of chief technology officer. DeMane was formerly chief operating officer at Medtronic, Inc.
June 9, 2010
-
Medicare Advantage and Medicaid health plan CareSource named Michael E. Ervin, M.D., chair of its CareSource Ohio board of trustees and Ellen Leffak chair of its management group board of directors. Ervin has served on the board for two years and Leffak for 19 years….Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale, Miss., named Joan Strayham interim CEO. Strayham replaces Jack Hill, who served as CEO since 2008, but left the hospital to report to duty with the United States Army Reserve. Strayham was chief operating officer at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.
June 8, 2010
-
Biotechnology firm Pieris AG named Laurent Audoly chief scientific officer. Audoly was biologics research site lead at Merck & Co. Inc....Healthation, a developer of core administrative systems for health and specialty insurance payers, appointed Peter Stapay vice president of sales, marketing and business development. Stapay was responsible for new sales of services and products within The TriZetto Group's Integrated Healthcare Management unit.
June 7, 2010
-
athenahealth, Inc. said effective July 1, David E. Robinson, executive vice president and chief operating officer, will resign as COO. Ed Park, who is athenahealth's chief technology officer, will take over as COO. In conjunction with this transition, Jeremy Delinsky will be named chief technology officer. Delinsky was senior vice president of athenaNet Intelligence....3-V Biosciences, Inc. appointed Edward Connor, Jr., M.D., chief medical officer. Connor will continue as director, Office of Investigational Therapeutics, Children's National Medical Center and as a professor of pediatrics at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
June 4, 2010
-
CIGNA Corp. named Bert Scott president of U.S. commercial operations. Scott was executive vice president and chief institutional development and sales officer at TIAA-CREF in New York....Cayenne Medical, Inc., a privately held sports medicine device company, appointed Michael T. Gillem vice president of sales. Gillem was vice president of sales at Stereotaxis.
June 3, 2010
-
Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy named Fred Brown president of its Navigator Health Services division. Prior to joining Diplomat in December, Brown was global head of partnering and product lifecycle management at Hoffmann LaRoche....Wakely Consulting Group Inc., a health care consulting firm, appointed Patrick Holland managing director of its new Boston office. Holland was chief financial officer at the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, a government-sponsored health insurance exchange in Massachusetts.
June 2, 2010
-
HealthSpring Inc. promoted Sharad Mansukani, M.D., to a new board position to help the insurer deal with major changes to Medicare resulting from the new health reform law. Mansukani will now become vice chairman-strategic planning of the board and will cease to be an executive officer and part-time employee of HealthSpring. He was executive vice president-chief strategy officer. The insurer also said that Mark A. Tulloch, executive vice president-enterprise operations, added the title of chief operating officer.
June 1, 2010
-
Alston & Bird LLP named Paula Stannard, Esq. to its health care group in Washington, D.C. Stannard was a senior lawyer, deputy general counsel and acting general counsel at HHS.…Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. promoted Christian Weyer, M.D., to senior vice president of research and development and Orville Kolterman, M.D., to senior vice president and chief medical officer. Weyer was vice president of medical development and Kolterman was senior vice president of research and development.
| |
|
