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June 23, 2009
- WuXi PharmaTech Inc., a pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical-device
research and development-outsourcing company with operations in China
and the U.S., appointed Felix Hsu senior vice president of WuXi AppTec
U.S. Hsu was director of heart valve worldwide marketing at Medtronic.
- Evangelical Community Hospital, in Lewisburg, Pa., named Glenn R.
Eisenhauer vice president of human resources. Eisenhauer was vice
president of human resources at the Arkansas Foundation for Medical
Care in Little Rock. He replaces Michael Pierce, who retired last
year.
June 22, 2009
- Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., a biopharmaceutical company, promoted
Vojo Vukovic, M.D., to senior vice president and chief medical officer
(CMO). Vukovic was vice president of clinical research.
- Specialty pharmaceutical company Durect Corp. named Joseph Stauffer,
M.D., CMO and executive vice president of corporate strategy. Stauffer
was head of clinical research and medical affairs for pain products
at Alpharma Inc.
June 19, 2009
- Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC) promoted Carolyn Clift to senior
vice president and chief diversity officer. Clift was vice president,
general counsel and assistant secretary. HCSC operates the Blue Cross
and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
- Medical imaging startup Imalux Corp. named Michael Burke CEO on
June 1, replacing acting CEO Bill Sanford, who will continue as chairman.
Burke was CEO of Trek Diagnostic Systems Inc.
June 18, 2009
- McKesson Corp. promoted Patrick Blake to executive vice president
and group president of its McKesson Technology Solutions unit. Blake
was president of McKesson Specialty Care Solutions.
- WellNet Healthcare, a technology company, appointed Chris Kaiser
sales executive for the Mid-Atlantic territory and Jay Thompson sales
executive for the Northeast territory. Kaiser was territory salesman
at Vocus Inc., and Thompson was a research consultant at the Corporate
Executive Board in Arlington, Va.
June 17, 2009
- Universal Health Care in St. Petersburg, Fla., named Cheryl R. Shafer
chief medical officer. Shafer was the national medical director at
Optum Public Sector at OptumHealthcare Solutions in Charleston, W.Va.
- St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho, picked David Pate to take
over as president and CEO after Ed Dahlberg steps down in March 2010.
Pate is CEO of St. Luke's Episcopal Health System in Houston until
he leaves in September.
June 16, 2009
- Somerset Medical Center, in Somerville, N.J., named Stephen Minogue
vice president of its Sleep For Life Center. He was vice president
of support services at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in
Hamilton, N.J.
- Cinergy Health, a vendor of health insurance benefit programs for
the consumer market, appointed Erika Schwartz, M.D., medical director.
Schwartz specializes in the treatment of bioidentical hormones.
June 15, 2009
- Omnicare, Inc. promoted Jeffrey M. Stamps to senior vice president
of pharmacy operations, Beth A. Kinerk to senior vice president of
sales and customer development, and Jonathan D. Borman to vice president
of strategic sourcing....Zosano Pharma Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical
company, named Thorsten von Stein, M.D., chief medical officer (CMO).
He was CMO at Tercica Inc.
June 12, 2009
- ZymoGenetics, Inc. promoted Eleanor L. Ramos, M.D., to senior vice
president and chief medical officer. Ramos was vice president of clinical
development. She replaced Nicole Onetto, M.D...ScripNet named Candace
Nolan director of sales. She was vice president of sales and marketing
at Health Systems International.
June 11, 2009
- OptumHealth Inc. appointed Paul Hebert chief operating officer of
OptumHealth Specialty Benefits. He was vice president and chief financial
officer (CFO) of small and middle markets at Aetna Inc.
- FivePrime Therapeutics, Inc. named Julia P. Gregory president and
CEO, effective June 18. Gregory was executive vice president and CFO
at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She succeeds Gail Maderis, who is
stepping down for health reasons.
June 10, 2009
- EmblemHealth named Shawn M. Fitzgibbon senior vice president of
network management. He has served as president of HealthSpring of
New York, and as an administrator at Maimonides Medical Center in
Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Kappametrics Inc., a medical technology company, appointed Jay D.
Miller president and CEO. He was an independent consultant for approximately
10 health care companies.
June 9, 2009
- Sarnova Medical Products, a distributor of health care products
in the emergency medical services and respiratory markets, appointed
Hank Struik CEO. Struik was president of Cardinal Health, Inc. He
replaces Craig Davenport, who is stepping down.
- Redwood Regional Medical Group, in San Francisco, promoted Wayne
Fairchild to CEO. Fairchild had been serving as interim CEO.
June 8, 2009
- Carlos O. Hernandez, M.D., was named president at WellMed Medical
Group, a large senior health care provider in San Antonio. Hernandez
has been a physician leader at WellMed since 2001, serving as chief
of medical affairs, medical director and lead physician.
- Maine Medical Center promoted Richard Petersen to president and
CEO. Petersen was interim president and CEO since Vincent Conti stepped
down last year.
June 5, 2009
- The University of Rochester Medical Center promoted Mark B. Taubman,
M.D., to acting CEO. Taubman will serve as CEO until Bradford Berk,
M.D., recovers from a spinal injury. Taubman was chair of the department
of medicine.
- Stevie Bosch joined CompPartners, a workers' compensation, disability,
and group health managed care organization, as operations supervisor.
She was the meeting manager/special projects at Continuing Medical
Education, LLC.
June 4, 2009
- Joseph Baker was named president of the Medicare Rights Center,
effective June 15. Baker was a senior health policy adviser in the
administrations of New York Govs. David Paterson (D) and Eliot Spitzer
(D).
- Blue Shield of California appointed Meredith Mathews, M.D., senior
vice president and chief medical officer (CMO). Matthews replaced
Alan Sokolow, M.D., who went to United Healthcare. Matthews was CMO
at DaVita VillageHealth.
June 3, 2009
- Brian Keller was promoted to senior vice president and chief marketing
officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. Keller replaces
Mike Reitz, who was named president and CEO. Keller was vice president
for individual sales and marketing.
- Memorial Hospital in Conway, N.H., appointed Scott McKinnon president
and CEO. McKinnon was vice president at Lankenau Hospital in Pennsylvania.
June 2, 2009
- HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius appointed Cindy Mann director of the
Center for Medicaid and State Operations, which oversees Medicaid
and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) at the federal
level. Mann was director at the Georgetown University Center for Children
and Families.
- John H. Austin, M.D., 64, founder, executive chairman and chief
medical officer of Oakland, Calif.-based Arcadian Management Services,
was killed in an airplane accident on May 29.
June 1, 2009
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City said CEO Tom Bowser plans
to retire at year-end 2010. Concurrently, the Blues plan promoted
David Gentile to president and CEO-elect. Gentile was executive vice
president.
- BSD Medical Corp., a developer of systems used to deliver hyperthermia
therapy for the treatment of cancer, appointed Steven Smith vice president
of marketing and business development. Smith was director of business
development at Bard Access Systems, Inc.
May 29, 2009
- West Penn Allegheny Health System named Gary Strong president and
CEO of The Western Pennsylvania Hospital-Forbes Regional Campus. Strong
was executive vice president and chief administrative officer at Allina
Health System in Minneapolis....Medsphere Systems Corp., a developer
of open-source electronic health records, appointed Walter Groszewski
vice president of business development. Groszewski was an IBM Corp.
global sales executive.
May 28, 2009
- Agios Pharmaceuticals appointed David Schenkein, M.D., CEO and Duncan
Higgons chief operating officer (COO). Schenkein was senior vice president
of clinical hematology/oncology at Genentech, Inc., and Higgons was
COO, president and interim CEO at Archemix Corp.
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc. named Frank J. Luppino COO. Luppino was
vice president of operations at Bionostics.
May 27, 2009
- Comprehensive Care Corp. appointed Clark Marcus chairman and co-CEO.
Marcus was chairman and CEO at Core Corporate Consulting Group, Inc.
before it was acquired by CompCare in January.
- Hawaii Medical Center (HMC), which has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy
reorganization since August, named Paul Ross and Michael Matwichy
hospital administrators for its two hospitals. Ross will run HMC East
in Liliha, and Matwichyna will oversee HMC West in Ewa Beach.
May 26, 2009
- Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, Inc. appointed William Carlson,
M.D., chief medical officer. He was president of the medical staff
at Martin Memorial Health Systems in Stuart, Fla., and a member of
the board of directors.
- Greyson International, Inc. named Daniel Ettedgui, M.D., director
of medical products. Ettedgui is a practicing physician in Florida,
specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
May 25, 2009
- Independence Blue Cross appointed Alan Krigstein senior vice president
and chief financial officer (CFO). He succeeds John Foos, who retired
in November. Krigstein was senior vice president of finance, CFO and
treasurer at AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies. Independence also
promoted John Janney, Jr., to senior vice president of eBusiness and
support services and Stephan Roker to senior vice president of operations.
- Axolotl Corp., a developer of health information exchange tools
and services, named Robert Scarbrough director of IT operations. He
was vice president of IT at Swope Community Enterprise Services.
May 22, 2009
- The Kansas Health Policy Authority promoted Andrew Allison to acting
executive director. Allison was deputy director. He succeeded Marcia
Nielsen, who stepped down to accept a faculty position at the University
of Kansas Medical Center.
- New York City named Thomas Farley head of its Dept. of Health and
Mental Hygiene. Farley was a pediatrician and epidemiologist in Louisiana.
Farley replaces Thomas Frieden, who was picked last week by President
Barack Obama to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
May 21, 2009
- RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company,
named Dennis Smith, Jr., M.D., chief medical officer. Smith was a
senior executive and a board director at AmeriPath, Inc.
- Scott Levin, M.D., was appointed chair of the department of orthopaedic
surgery at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. Levin was a professor of
both orthopaedic and plastic surgery, as well as the chief of the
division of plastic, maxillofacial and oral surgery at Duke University
School of Medicine.
May 20, 2009
- Greater Hazleton Health Alliance, in Hazleton, Pa., named Elizabeth
Perrong vice president of human resources. She was vice president
of human resources at Saint Catherine Healthcare in Ashland, Pa.
- Cyberonics, Inc., a medical device company, appointed Bryan Olin
vice president of quality. Olin was senior director of quality assurance
at Zeltiq Aesthetics.
May 19, 2009
- AVI BioPharma, Inc. appointed Paul Medeiros senior vice president
of business development and chief business officer. He was vice president
of global licensing and strategic alliances at Schering-Plough Corp.
- UnitedHealthcare, Inc. named Donald Giancursio CEO of its Nevada
health plan operations. Giancursio was senior vice president of sales
and marketing at Sierra Health Services, Inc.
May 18, 2009
- Alegro Health Corp., a vendor of medical, surgical and disability
management services, appointed Peter Walkey chief financial officer
(CFO). Walkey was CFO at Canada-based Priszm Income Fund.
- Altair Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, named Joel
Martin president and CEO. Martin was a partner at Forward Ventures.
May 15, 2009
- Eclipsys Corp., which makes software for the health care industry,
named Philip M. Pead CEO. Pead was CEO at Per-Se Technologies Inc.
- Orion Health, Inc., a developer of clinical workflow and integration
technology for electronic health records, appointed Anna Theriault
vice president of alliances for Orion Health North American, Europe,
Middle East and Africa. Theriault was health care services sales lead
at Cisco Systems Inc.
May 14, 2009
- Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. promoted Deborah Leonetti to
president of Integra Surgical, which is part of Integra's medical
instrument business. Leonetti was chief marketing officer.
- CareFusion Corp., the company that will go public after the planned
spinoff of Cardinal Health's clinical and medical products businesses,
named Edward Borkowski chief financial officer (CFO). Borkowski was
CFO at pharmaceutical company Mylan, Inc.
May 13, 2009
- HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius said May 11 that Jeanne Lambrew will
head the HHS Office of Health Reform and that Michael Hash will serve
as a senior adviser. Lambrew was a former Clinton administration official
at the Office of Management and Budget, and Hash was a former deputy
administrator of CMS.
- The New Jersey Association of Health Plans appointed Sarah McLallen
vice president. McLallen was chief of staff at the New Jersey Health
Care Quality Institute.
May 12, 2009
- Bausch & Lomb promoted Peter Valenti III to corporate vice president
and global president of vision care, effective July 1. He was president
of the company's North America vision care unit.
- Ikano Therapeutics Inc. appointed Patrick Fabbio chief financial
officer. Fabbio was senior director of U.S. life-cycle management
and base business at sanofi-aventis.
May 11, 2009
- Lakeside Health System, in Brockport, N.Y., promoted Michael Stapleton
to CEO. He was chief operating officer (COO) and before that chief
nursing officer.
- Amherst, Mass.-based Meritain Health named Anne DeFusco president
and COO. DeFusco was chief administrative officer at UnitedHealth
Group's AmeriChoice subsidiary.
May 8, 2009
- Casenet, Inc., a developer of care management software tools, appointed
Bill Wisotzkey vice president of product management and design. Wisotzkey
was general manager at IntrinsiQ, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider
of oncology electronic medical records and data analytics.
- Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital, in Worcester, Mass., named Valerie
Veridiano, M.D., chief of internal medicine. Veridiano earned her
medical degree at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines,
and completed her residency in internal medicine at St. Vincent Hospital
in Worcester.
May 7, 2009
- The law firm of Foley Hoag LLP named Lindsey Toohey health policy
specialist. Toohey was senior health policy advisor to Sen. Kent Conrad
(D-N.D.)
- Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho, appointed Norman Stephens
CEO. Stephens was CEO at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer,
Alaska.
May 6, 2009
- Medicaid plan Molina Healthcare of Florida named David Pollack chief
operating officer. Pollack was vice president of portfolio operations
at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
- Pfizer Inc. hired Freda Lewis-Hall as chief medical officer (CMO).
Lewis-Hall was CMO at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
May 5, 2009
- Pharmacy Systems Inc., a hospital pharmacy management and consulting
firm, named Michael McCarrell regional vice president. McCarrell oversaw
The Ohio State University Medical Center's daily operations in pharmacy
for purchasing, inventory management and automation.
- WellMed Medical Management, a health insurer, appointed Herman Wright
Jr., senior vice president of sales and marketing. From 2003 to 2005,
he was a senior vice president and emerging markets officer at Health
Net of California. In recent years, he focused on businesses outside
of health care, including ranching and filmmaking.
May 4, 2009
- Sierra Tucson, a treatment center for addictions, behavioral disorders
and chronic pain, promoted Nancy Jarrell to clinical director. Jarrell
has served as assistant clinical director since September 2006 and,
most recently, as interim clinical director.
- Iowa Gov. Chet Culver (D) appointed Charles Krogmeier director of
the Iowa Department of Human Services. Krogmeier was chief of staff
in the governor's office.
May 1, 2009
- Kathleen Sebelius was sworn in April 29 as secretary of HHS. Sebelius
was governor of Kansas and a former state insurance commissioner.
- Prime Therapeutics LLC said Timothy Dickman, president and CEO,
left the company to "pursue other interests" effective April
23. Kim Mageau, senior vice president and chief operating officer,
will serve as interim president and CEO. Dickman had been president
and CEO since 2002.
April 30, 2009
- St. Luke's Free Medical Clinic, a non-profit family practice clinic
that provides medical care to low-income, uninsured residents in Spartanburg,
S.C., promoted Patsy Whitney to CEO. Whitney was chief operating officer.
- El Paso, Texas-based Sierra Medical Center named Francisco Rodriguez,
M.D., chief of staff. Rodriguez had been practicing in El Paso since
2000.
April 29, 2009
- CareCentrix, a home health care benefits management company, appointed
William Kerr, M.D., chief medical officer; Robert LaGalia, chief growth
officer; and Alison K. Gilligan, Esq., chief counsel. Kerr was chief
medical officer at WellCare Health Plans Inc., LaGalia was president
of Magellan Health Services' radiology benefits management business,
and Gilligan was co-founder and CEO at VeriMedx, Inc., an early-stage
geriatric disease management company.
- RXi Pharmaceuticals Corp., a biopharmaceutical company, appointed
Richard Chin, M.D., to its board of directors. Chin is CEO at OneWorld
Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company that develops drugs for
diseases in developing countries.
- OPKO Health, Inc., a specialty health care company, named Alice
Lin-Tsing Yu, M.D., a director. Yu serves as a professor of pediatrics
for both the National Taiwan University and University of California
in San Diego.
April 28, 2009
- InfuSystem, a developer of ambulatory infusion pumps and associated
clinical services, hired Bryan Russo as chief commercial officer of
the company. Russo was regional vice president of sales at Gentiva
Health Services, Inc., a home health care company.
- InTouch Health, a vendor of telepresence robots for the health
care market, named Gerry Popolow vice president of clinical services
and account management. Popolow was chief nursing officer at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center.
April 27, 2009
- Natividad Medical Center, in Salinas, Calif., promoted Gary Gray,
M.D., to chief medical officer. Gray was chief of staff of the 172-bed
acute-care medical center.
- DaVita Inc., a kidney care services company, appointed John Schaeffler
senior vice president of federal legislative affairs. He was senior
manager of government relations at GE Healthcare.
April 24, 2009
- Halfpenny Technologies, Inc., a health information exchange company,
appointed Jerry Baker CEO. Baker was president and CEO of MRO Corp.,
an electronic medical record services vendor.
- The Via Christi Wichita Health Network, in Kansas, promoted Anita
Mills to director of pediatrics and pediatric intensive care. Mills
was staff nurse and relief charge nurse in the trauma surgical intensive
care unit.
April 23, 2009
- Vantia Therapeutics, a company that develops novel small molecule
drugs in Southampton, England, appointed Rachel Morten head of regulatory
affairs. Morton was an independent regulatory affairs consultant.
- Biovail Corp. named Fred Nicklas vice president of U.S. commercial
operations at BTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Nicklas was senior director
of epilepsy marketing at Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
April 22, 2009
- Bravo Health, a Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicaid plan, hired
Mark Puente as senior vice president of Medicaid. Puente was CEO of
AMERIGROUP Maryland Inc.
- UCare, a nonprofit MA plan, named Alan Heaton, Pharm.D., pharmacy
director. Heaton was director of pharmacy at BlueCross BlueShield
of Minnesota.
April 21, 2009
- San Antonio-based Baptist Health System promoted Graham Reeve to
chief operating officer. Reeve was president of St. Luke's Baptist
Hospital, which is part of the health system.
- HHS named Henry Claypool director of the Office on Disability. Claypool
was policy director at Independence Care System, a managed long-term
care provider in New York City.
April 20, 2009
- UCare hired Becky J. Taylor as group Medicare sales representative
in Minnesota. Taylor was an individual and Medicare field account
executive at HealthPartners.
- Carlisle Regional Medical Center, in Carlisle, Pa., named Angela
Marchi interim CEO. She was CEO at Easton Hospital in Easton, Pa.
April 17, 2009
- Medical Mutual of Ohio appointed Patrick J. Dugan chief legal officer
and executive vice president. Dugan was lead outside counsel to Medical
Mutual's general counsel and board of directors with the law firm
Squire Sanders.
- Brian Sweet, chief pharmacy officer at WellPoint, Inc., was named
president-elect of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. Sweet's term
as president will begin April 2010.
April 16, 2009
- Kaiser Permanente promoted Jed Weissberg, M.D., senior vice president
of quality and care delivery excellence. He was associate executive
director of quality and performance improvement for The Permanente
Federation.
- ThermoGenesis Corp., a supplier of products that process and store
adult stem cells, named Melville "Mel" Engle CEO. Matthew
Plavan, who has served as the company's interim CEO since December,
has become chief operating officer. Engle was CEO at Raydiance Inc.,
a laser technology company.
April 15, 2009
- Health and wellness company American Specialty Health Inc. named
Dawn Garcia associate vice president of health plan sales. Garcia
was regional vice president of national account sales at CareAllies,
which is now CIGNA Health Solutions.
- David Bartholomew was appointed president of Franklin, Tenn.-based
health care recruiter HCCA International. Bartholomew was founder
and CEO at Nashville-based Staffmark.
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