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Dates included below correspond to the issue of AIS’s Health Business Daily in which
“People News” appeared.

February 3, 2010

• Molina Healthcare Inc. named Peter Goll chief operating officer of Molina Healthcare of Missouri. Goll was regional vice president at Arcadian Management Services....Wellmont Health Systems in Kingsport, Tenn., named Bob Burgin interim CEO. Before retiring in 2004, Burgin served more than 24 years as president and CEO at Mission Hospitals in Asheville, N.C.

February 2, 2010

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama promoted Terry Kellogg to president in addition to being chief operating officer (COO). The insurer's current president and CEO, Phillip Pope will retire on June 30. Kellogg is executive vice president and COO....Human Genome Sciences, Inc. named Scott Habig vice president of sales. Habig was vice president of sales at Centocor Ortho Biotech, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

February 1, 2010

• Rite Aid Corp. named Bryan Shirtliff senior vice president of business development. Shirtliff was senior vice president of category management....PMSI appointed Maurice Steenland vice president of informatics. Steenland had served as executive director at Coventry Health Care of Nevada.

January 29, 2010

• Edward Gilkey, M.D., has been named vice president of medical affairs for Warren Hospital in Warren, N.J. Gilkey was chief physician executive at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage....Genocea Biosciences appointed Paul Giannasca vice president of development. Giannasca was vice president of development at Acambis, Inc., now Sanofi-Pasteur.

January 28, 2010

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina CEO Bob Greczyn will retire Feb. 1. Brad Wilson will take over as the health insurer's top executive....Addus HomeCare Corp. appointed Michael Siegel vice president of information services. Siegel was principal at MCS Associates, LLC.

January 27, 2010

• Boston Emergency Medical Services appointed James W. Hooley chief. Hooley has been the interim chief since October, when Richard Serino was appointed deputy administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.... WellPoint, Inc. said Mike Walsh will lead its dental business. Walsh is the president of Eagan, Minn.-based DeCare Dental, which the Blues plan operator acquired last April.

January 26, 2010

• David Guilmette will become president of CIGNA Corp.'s national segment on Feb. 8. Guilmette was managing director of Towers Perrin's global Health & Welfare consulting practice. CIGNA also named Matthew Manders president of CIGNA U.S. service, clinical and specialty, a newly created position. Manders has been with the health plan operator for more than 22 years.

January 25, 2010

• The eHealth Initiative and Foundation promoted Jennifer Covich Bordenick to CEO. Covich was interim CEO and chief operating officer....Vangent, Inc. promoted Jerry Ambrosh to vice president of business development for health solutions. Ambrosh was director of business development.

January 22, 2010

• Spine Pain Management, Inc. appointed John Talamas director of operations. He was CEO at Quality Drill Media....Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc. named Garen Bohlin executive vice president. Bohlin was chief operating officer at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals.

January 21, 2010

• The Georgia Department of Community Health promoted Perry Sims to chief information officer. Sims was director of Medicaid Management Information System....Independence Blue Cross promoted Linda Taylor to chief marketing executive. Taylor was senior vice president of sales and marketing at Independence's subsidiary AmeriHealth Administrators.

January 20, 2010

• AdvancedMD Software, Inc., a developer of electronic health record and revenue-cycle-management tools, named Steven ZoBell chief product and technology officer. He was executive vice president and chief technology officer at inContact, Inc....Spectrum Surgical Instruments Corp. appointed Rick Costello chief operating officer. Costello was president of an international materials handling company.

January 19, 2010

• RS Medical, a developer of pain management and rehabilitation products and services, named John Konsin president and CEO. President and co-founder Rick Terrell is retiring from day-to-day operations, but will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Konsin was vice president of sports surgery at Covidien plc.'s surgical services unit....Genesis Behavioral Health in Laconia, N.H., appointed Vladimir Jelnov, M.D., medical director. He was the attending psychiatrist at the inpatient unit of Jersey City Medical Center in New Jersey.

January 18, 2010

• Excellus BlueCross BlueShield promoted Marybeth McCall, M.D., to vice president and chief medical officer for its Central New York and Southern Tier regions. McCall joined Excellus in 2007 as associate medical director for utilization management....MedExpress Urgent Care, which operates 40 full-service walk-in medical clinics, named Michael Geldart chief operations officer, Russ Sullivan vice president of human resources and Troy Steckler vice president of clinical operations.

January 15, 2010

• Jeanne Carlson will retire from her position as Blue Care Network (BCN) CEO at the end of February, concluding her 33-year career with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan. Carlson was appointed CEO in 2006, prior to which she served as BCN's chief operating officer. Kevin Klobucar, a 23-year employee of BCN and the current vice president for products and marketing, will succeed Carlson, pending formal approval from the boards of directors for BCBSM and BCN....Chris Gorey was named vice president of sales for Regence BlueShield. He will lead sales and account management for Regence BlueShield and Asuris Northwest Health. Gorey was at Trustmark Companies, where he worked on identifying and pursuing acquisitions.

January 14, 2010

• Summit Medical Group appointed Avrim R. Eden, M.D., medical director of quality. Eden was a clinical professor in the Division of Otolaryngology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark....Bind Biosciences, a Cambridge, Mass., nanoparticle-based drug developer, named Scott Minick president and CEO. Minick was president and chief operating officer at Sequus Pharmaceuticals/Liposome Technology Inc.

January 13, 2010

• athenahealth, Inc., a developer of Internet-based business services for physician practices, named Timothy M. Adams senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Concurrent with Adams' appointment, Carl B. Byers will step down as CFO, a position he has held since the company's founding in 1997. Byers will continue to serve as an advisor to the company. Adams was chief investment officer at Constitution Medical Investors Inc....Richard Coons was named vice president of business development at WellMed Medical Management, Inc. Coons was vice president of sales at backgroundchecks.com.

January 12, 2010

• Kaiser Permanente promoted Elisa Mendel to national vice president of HealthWorks and product innovation. Mendel was vice president of California products and benefits....Health Care Service Corp. named David D. Jones senior vice president and chief human resources officer. Jones was senior vice president of human resources at Bon Secours Health System.

January 11, 2010

• The Healthcare Distribution Management Assn., the trade association representing America's primary health care distributors, today promoted Ann W. Bittman to executive vice president and chief operating officer. She was senior vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer....Chris Smith has joined Kaiser Permanente as vice president of occupational health, California sales and account management. Smith has held executive-level business development, underwriting, risk control and claims leadership positions with Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. and Home Insurance Co. 

January 8, 2010

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan named Jerome Espy director of external affairs, effective Jan. 19. Espy was press secretary at Detroit Medical Center....Quotit Corp., an Internet application service provider for the health insurance and employee benefits industries, appointed Lisa Rehburg vice president of national sales. Rehburg was vice president of national sales for Quotit's sister company, Word & Brown General Agency.

January 7, 2010

• T2 Biosystems, Inc., a medical diagnostic products company, appointed Ken Toso vice president of product development. Toso was senior vice president of engineering at Grove Instruments and vice president of research and development for the oncology division at Boston Scientific Corp....Elizabeth Docteur was named vice president and director of policy analysis at the Center for Studying Health System Change. Docteur was deputy director of the health division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

January 6, 2010

• Inovio Biomedical Corp. named Mark L. Bagarazzi, M.D., chief medical officer. Bagarazzi was director of worldwide regulatory affairs for vaccines and biologics at Merck & Co., Inc....QuadraMed Corp. appointed Thomas J. Dunn senior vice president of sales and marketing. Dunn was vice president at CareMedic Corp.

January 5, 2010

• Centene Corp. appointed Toni Simonettito senior vice president of public affairs. Simonettito was chief communications officer at GMAC, a financial services company....Fellowship Health Resources, Inc., a nonprofit mental health agency, promoted Richard Graziano to chief operating officer for its Southeast Region. Graziano was southeast director of operations.

January 4, 2010

• MMR Information Systems, Inc., which through its wholly owned operating subsidiary MyMedicalRecords, Inc. offers personal health records, named Ingrid Safranek chief financial officer. She was a senior accountant for Deloitte & Touche from 2002 to 2006. Since 2006, Safranek has been a stay-at-home mother....Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Ga., promoted Susan Bruns to chief nursing officer. Bruns has been interim chief nursing officer since Sept. 1.

December 30, 2009

• Geisinger Health Plan named Richard Kwei chief operating officer and Edward Lucy associate vice president of provider network management. Kwei was senior director of strategic planning at Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan, and Lucy was senior vice president of delivery system management and strategy at Health Insurance Plan of New York.

December 29, 2009

• Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, owned by a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corp., named J. Michael Cowling CEO. Cowling was a division vice president for Health Management Associates, where he oversaw operations for two hospitals....Paris-based ConvaTec, a developer and marketer of medical technologies for hospitals, appointed Erik Zimmer vice president and general manager for its Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He was senior director at Abbot Laboratories.

December 28, 2009

• CVS Caremark Corp. appointed Per Lofberg president of its PBM division. Lofberg was president and CEO of Generation Health, Inc....Merck & Co., Inc. named Julie Gerberding, M.D., president of its vaccine unit. Gerberding was director of HHS’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

December 23, 2009

• The Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services appointed Matt Rohs president, effective Jan. 1. Rohs is vice president and general manager for health IT company HealthPort....Matt Hosford was promoted to director of pharmacy for Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield. He was interim director of pharmacy operations.

December 22, 2009

• WellCare Health Plans, Inc. promoted Alec R. Cunningham to CEO. He was president of WellCare's Florida and Hawaii division. Cunningham will succeed President and CEO Heath Schiesser, who will leave at the end of this year....Cottage Health System, in Santa Barbara, Calif., named Steven Linn, M.D., chief medical officer (CMO) and vice president of medical affairs. Linn was CMO for South Jersey Healthcare in Vineland, N.J.

December 21, 2009

• ImmunoGen, Inc., a biotechnology company, appointed Suzanne Cadden vice president of regulatory affairs and quality. Cadden was vice president of regulatory affairs and clinical development at Sierra Neuropharmaceuticals Inc....Andover Medical Inc., a supplier of durable medical equipment, promoted John Sparks to vice president, sales, of the U.S. sales and service force. Sparks had been responsible for sales, business development, professional services and customer support for the past 10 years.

December 18, 2009

• Merck & Co., Inc. appointed Michael Rosenblatt, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer. Rosenblatt has served as dean of Tufts University School of Medicine since 2003....Viking Systems, Inc., a supplier of 2D and 3D visualization systems for the medical market, promoted Jed Kennedy to president and CEO, effective Jan. 4. Kennedy is now president and chief operating officer.

December 17, 2009

• Health Net, Inc. names Angelee Bouchard senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. She replaced Linda Tiano, who was promoted to president, regional health plans, Health Net of the Northeast. Bouchard was vice president, assistant general counsel and assistant secretary at Health Net....BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee appointed John Maki regional sales director for the west Tennessee region. He was regional sales executive for that region.

December 16, 2009

• NormOxys, Inc., a biotechnology company, appointed David Clark, M.D., chief medical officer. Prior to NormOxys, Clark led clinical teams while working in the clinical development division at Pfizer Inc....AlphaRx Inc., an emerging biopharmaceutical company, named Ruby Hui president of China Operations. Ruby was senior project manager at New World Development.

December 15, 2009

• Ken Konstanzer has been named associate vice president of sales for public programs at American Specialty Health Inc. Konstanzer was national director for government channels at BodyMedia....MED3OOO, Inc., a health care management and technology company, appointed Hillary Harlan chief compliance and ethics officer. Harlan was director of compliance and legal services at Preferred Care Partners Management Group.

December 14, 2009

• Abington Health and Abington Medical Center in Abington, Pa., named Laurence M. Merlis president and CEO. He was president and CEO of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Merlis succeeds Richard Jones, Jr., who will be retiring effective Jan. 31....Afexa Life Sciences Inc. promoted Jack Moffatt to chairman and CEO. In September 2008, he was appointed to the board and became its executive chair.

December 11, 2009

• MetroHealth System in Cleveland named John McInally chief information officer. He replaced Vince Miller, who retired earlier this year. McInally came from CollabRx., an emerging biotech company in Palo Alto, Calif., where he was in charge of planning, operations and financial management.... Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a developer of prescription drugs in the People's Republic of China, appointed Jinzhong Han general manager of its Over-the-Counter (OTC) Drug Division. Han was general manager of the OTC division at Tianjin Taiping Pharmaceutical Company.

December 10, 2009

• Absorption Systems, a drug testing company, hired Ramesh Bambal as director of scientific operations. Bambal was section manager for the Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Department at GlaxoSmithKline....Ameritox, a developer of pain-medication monitoring tools, appointed Jay Zimmerman chief operating officer. Zimmerman was vice president of medical imaging at Perceptive Informatics, Inc., a subsidiary of the biopharmaceutical services firm PAREXEL International.

December 9, 2009

• Mercy Medical Center in Redding, Calif., named Mark Korth CEO, effective Dec. 31. Korth was CEO of Lakewood Regional Medical Center in Lakewood, Calif....Susan Wilder, M.D., has been hired as medical director for Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Concierge Choice Physicians. Wilder was a practicing primary care physician in suburban Phoenix.

December 8, 2009

• Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc., a Medicare Advantage plan operator in Florida, said Dec. 7 that Michael Earley, chairman of the board and CEO, will step down March 31. He will remain a member of the board of directors. Eric Haskell, the board's lead independent director, will assume the duties of chairman immediately....NormOxys, Inc., a biotechnology company, appointed Martin Tolar, M.D., president and CEO. Tolar was executive vice president and chief business officer at CoMentis Inc.

December 7, 2009

• Medtronic, Inc., a maker of medical devices, named Michael Coyle executive vice president and group president of its cardiology division. Coyle was president of St. Jude Medical's Cardiac Rhythm division....Bausch & Lomb Inc., promoted Mohinder Merchea to director of Medical Affairs, North America, Vision Care. Since 2007, he has led Vision Care, Global Clinical Affairs for new lens and lens care product development at the company.

December 4, 2009

• The National Institutes of Health named Alan Guttmacher, M.D., acting director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Guttmacher replaced Susan Shurin, M.D., who left to serve as acting director of NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Guttmacher was acting director for NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute.… EDIMS LLC, a developer of interoperable emergency department information management systems for hospitals, appointed A.J. Sultan director of technology. Sultan was director of network operations for Alexander Gallo Holdings LLC.

   

December 3, 2009

• Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. appointed Marc L. Rose chief financial officer (CFO), treasurer and corporate secretary. He replaced Mary Lay, who had been acting CFO since 2008. Rose was vice president of finance, CFO, treasurer and corporate secretary of Protalex, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company....Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. named William Keller director. Keller is general manager of Keller Pharma Consultancy, a pharmaceutical consulting firm he founded in China.

December 2, 2009

• MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. appointed Alan Petro vice president of manufacturing and technical operations. Petro was vice president of supply chain management for Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc....The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, a comparative-effectiveness research organization, hired Marc Silverstein, M.D., as chief decision scientist; Sarah Emond as chief operating officer; and Tanya Bobo as senior technology analyst. Silverstein was an independent health services research consultant for Health Care Research, Emond was a principal at SKE Communications, and Bobo was an epidemiologist with the Virginia Department of Health, Division of Zoonotic and Environmental Epidemiology.

December 1, 2009

• Health Discovery Corp., a molecular diagnostics firm, appointed Thomas Gallagher executive vice president and managing director of global intellectual property strategies. Gallagher was vice president for Goldman, Sachs & Co.…Hard to Treat Diseases, Inc. named Fred Carlini strategic advisor. Carlini was president for THE S.M.A.R.T. GROUP.

November 30, 2009

• Pamela Hyde has been appointed administrator of HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She was secretary of the New Mexico Human Services Department....Indiana-based St. Joseph Hospital named Dawn Rudolph CEO. She was chief operating officer of Dupont Hospital.

November 25, 2009

• Heart Force Medical Inc., a developer of non-invasive cardiac assessment, monitoring and screening devices, appointed Issa Nakhleh chief financial officer (CFO). He was CFO of TIR Systems Ltd....Qliance Medical Management Inc., which operates "insurance-free direct primary care clinics," named Ona Karasa chief operating officer. Karasa was president of the Atlas Division of aQuantive.

November 24, 2009

• Toshiba America's Imaging Systems Division appointed Paul Dempster director of medical imaging and factory automation. Dempster was president of NAI Tech Products, a supplier of video interface technology and digital media recording technology....The National Institutes of Health promoted Eric D. Green, M.D., to director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), effective Dec. 1. Green is the scientific director and director of the NHGRI Division of Intramural Research.

November 23, 2009

• Skiff Medical Center in Newton, Iowa, appointed Steve Long president and CEO, effective Jan. 18. Long serves as chief administrative officer at Aurora Medical Center in Wisconsin....MSC Care Management, a vendor of medical products and services, promoted Linda Lane to senior vice president of sales and marketing. Lane was vice president of national accounts and product strategy.

November 20, 2009

• The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) appointed Robert David assistant executive officer for health benefits. David was chief deputy director for the California office of Statewide Health Planning and Development....Independence Blue Cross named Lauren O'Brien vice president and chief accounting officer. O'Brien was the chief financial officer and chief risk officer at BlueCross BlueShield of Delaware.

November 19, 2009

• XLHealth Corp., an operator of Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans, named Kieron Dey vice president of clinical innovation. Dey was technical director at QualPro Inc., a process improvement management consulting firm....Empire BlueCross BlueShield named Patrick O'Keefe vice president and general manager for the downstate small group and middle markets; Tom Canty vice president and general manager of labor, municipal and jumbo accounts; and Ethel Graber vice president and general manager of upstate and mid-Hudson accounts.

November 18, 2009

• OncoMed named Ellen Scharaga senior vice president (SVP) of oncology pharmacy services. She was vice president of pharmacy services at Group Health Inc....Putnam Associates promoted Domenick Bertelli to partner. He was a principal with the firm....US Oncology, Inc. appointed Roger W. Anderson, Dr.P.H., chief pharmacy officer. He was SVP and chief pharmacist at Medco Health Solutions, Inc.s

November 17, 2009

• Managed Health Care Associates, Inc. named Pegeen Butterfield senior vice president (SVP) of trade relations. She was senior director of business development at Medco....McKesson Corp. promoted Mark Walchirk to president of McKesson Specialty Care Solutions. He was SVP and chief operatisng officer at McKesson U.S. Pharmaceutical.

November 16, 2009

• The Apothecary Shops named Keith Cook president. He was vice president for clinical operations at Medicine Shoppe International. The company also named Gary Williams chief financial officer. He was vice president of financial services at Avnet Technology Solutions North America.

• The Food and Drug Administration appointed Ann Witt counselor to the deputy commissioner for policy. She was counsel to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)

November 13, 2009

• AMD LASERS named James Jesse, M.D., medical director. Jesse is a full-time, private practitioner in Colton, Cailf.

• LifeMed Alaska hired Gary Stromberg as CEO. Stromberg was air medical manager at ThedaStar, the air medical service division for community health system Thedacare in Appleton, Wis.

November 12, 2009

• Prairie Lakes Healthcare System, in Watertown, S.D., promoted Jill Fuller to CEO. Before being named interim CEO in September, she was chief nursing officer.

• IRIS International, Inc., a manufacturer of automated in-vitro diagnostics systems, appointed Lawrence Blecka vice president of research and development. Blecka was group engineering manager at the BioPlex division of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

November 11, 2009

• Biosyntrx, a research-based ophthalmic company, promoted Ellen Troyer to CEO. Troyer was executive vice president and chief research officer.

• Vision-Sciences, Inc. named Warren Bielke interim CEO. Bielke replaced Ron Hadani, who resigned as president, CEO and a member of the board of directors for personal reasons. Bielke is a director of the medical technology company.

November 10, 2009

• Creighton University Medical Center (CUMC) in Omaha, Neb., named Gary Honts CEO. Honts has served as interim CEO at CUMC since May 25.

• Titan Spine appointed Paul Slosar, M.D., medical director. Slosar was president of SpineCare Medical Group in San Francisco.

November 9, 2009

• TARIS Biomedical, a specialty pharmaceutical company, named Julie Lekstrom Himes, M.D., chief medical officer and senior vice president for clinical development. Himes was responsible for all clinical programs at Coley Pharmaceuticals.

• The North Carolina Assisted Living Association appointed Peggy Smith executive director. Smith was program director at the Alzheimer's Association Eastern N.C. Chapter. She replaces Jerry L. Cooper, who became senior vice president at the Assisted Living Federation of America in Washington, D.C.

November 6, 2009

• Alnara Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company, appointed Lee R. Brettman, M.D., chief medical officer. Brettman was the founder, president and CEO of Dynogen Pharmaceuticals, which filed for bankruptcy in February.

• EDGE Medical Devices named Rick Sbordone vice president of North American sales and Guy Ohad vice president of international sales. Sbordone has worked for Philips Healthcare, Imaging Dynamics Co. and Swissray America. Ohad comes from Orex Computed Radiography, a division of Carestream Health, Inc., where he managed distribution.

November 5, 2009

• Molina Healthcare of Washington promoted John Robinson, M.D., to chief medical officer. Robinson was medical director.

• WellCare Health Plans, Inc. named Scott D. Law senior vice president, health care delivery. Law was national health care delivery officer at Health Net, Inc.

November 4, 2009

• Robert Matthews has been appointed vice president of group sales at American Specialty Health Inc. Matthews was vice president of national account sales at CIGNA HealthCare.

• Pharmacy Systems, Inc., a hospital pharmacy management and consulting company, named Karan Froom director of training and development, Megan Snare director of recruiting and Cher Swindell corporate recruiter.

November 3, 2009

• Canadian Bio Med Systems Inc. named George Tsoukas, M.D., medical director. He was an endocrinologist and associate professor at McGill University Health Center in Montreal.

• Chelsea Therapeutics International, Ltd. appointed William Schwieterman, M.D., chief medical officer. For the past three years, Schwieterman was on Chelsea's board of directors, but resigned to take his new position.

November 2, 2009

• MedTouch, an information technology company, appointed Tena Matta managing director. Matta was managing director for Idea II, an interactive marketing company.

• Telormedix, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, named Johanna Holldack, M.D., CEO. Holldack was CEO at Borean Pharma.

October 30, 2009

• Santaris Pharma A/S, a privately held biopharmaceutical company, appointed Mark Wedel, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer (CMO), and Stuart Mackey vice president, strategy and chief business officer. Wedel was senior vice president of drug development and CMO at Isis Pharmaceuticals. Mackey was managing director of Amgen Ventures.

• Qforma, an analytics and predictive modeling company, named Erin McLaughlin director of field operations. McLaughlin was an account manager with Surveillance Data Inc. 

October 29, 2009

• Centene Corp. promoted David Lavely to president and CEO of OptiCare Managed Vision. Lavely was senior vice president of business development for the company. He replaced Jason Harrold, who served as president of OptiCare for 10 years. Harrold became senior vice president of Centene's Specialty Business Unit, of which OptiCare is a part.

• Managed Health Network, Inc., the behavioral health subsidiary of Health Net, Inc., appointed Gidget Peddie chief sales officer. Peddie was senior vice president of sales and marketing at Magellan Health Services in Los Angeles.

October 28, 2009

• AngioDynamics, a developer of medical devices for the minimally invasive treatment of cancer and peripheral vascular disease, appointed Stephen J. McGill senior vice president and general manager, international, effective Nov. 1. McGill was a principal at AEM Global, a consulting firm specializing in developing market opportunities worldwide for medical device companies.

• SenoRx, Inc., which manufactures and sells minimally invasive medical devices used by breast care specialists, promoted John Buhler to president and chief operating officer. Buhler was senior vice president and chief commercial officer.

October 27, 2009

• Quanticate, a global biometrics clinical research organization, appointed Scott Clark head of business development for North America. Clark was vice president and global head of Quintiles eSolutions Business.

• New York eHealth Collaborative named David Whitlinger executive director. Most recently, he founded and served as president and board chair of the Continua Health Alliance, an industry alliance of more than 200 health care companies developing interoperability for personal health devices and services.

October 26, 2009

• Biopharmaceutical company Medivation, Inc. appointed Hank Mansbach, M.D., vice president of medical affairs. He was senior vice president and head of global drug development at Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company.
• The Cleveland Clinic's Medina Hospital promoted Thomas Tulisiak, M.D., to vice president of medical operations. Tulisiak has been a Cleveland Clinic physician since 1997, and serves as medical director of its Brunswick Family Health Center.

October 23, 2009

• Paradigm Management Services, a supplier of catastrophic medical management services, named Tom Mastri chief financial officer (CFO) and senior vice president. Mastri was CFO, treasurer and vice president at First Health Group Corp.
• Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City, Mont., hired Ron Webb as president and CEO. Webb was CEO of Valley View Hospital in Ada, Okla.

October 22, 2009

• Axolotl Corp. promoted Glenn Keet to president and Lalo Valdez to chief operating officer. The company also named Anand Shroff vice president of engineering and Robert Scarbrough vice president of technical operations. Keet was executive vice president of marketing and sales, and Valdez was chief financial officer for Axolotl. Shroff came from Oracle USA, where he was responsible for the development of the company's Healthcare Transaction Base, and Scarbrough was vice president of information technology at Swope Community Enterprises.

October 21, 2009

• Ascension Orthopedics, Inc., a developer of orthopedic extremity implants, appointed Guy Mayer president and CEO. Mayer was president of RTI Biologics, Inc.

• Paul DeChant is the new CEO of Modesto, Calif.- based Sutter Gould Medical Foundation. He replaces James Conforti, who was named CEO of Modesto's Memorial Medical Center in April.

October 20, 2009

• Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. named Robert Garnick head of regulatory affairs. Garnick was senior vice president of regulatory, quality and compliance at Genentech until 2008, when he left to found Lone Mountain Biotechnology and Medical Devices Inc.

• HealthWell Foundation, a copayment assistance organization, appointed Mary Sundeen executive director. Sundeen was president and CEO at Hospice Caring Inc. in Gaithersburg, Md.

October 19, 2009

• Adventist Medical Center in Portland, Ore., hired Teri Gilmore, R.N., as cancer care coordinator. Prior to Adventist Health, Gilmore spent 13 years working for Providence Health Systems' oncology clinical trials.

• Sonoma Valley Hospital in Sonoma, Calif., named Tim Noakes chief financial officer (CFO). He was CEO and CFO at Stanislaus Surgical Hospital in Modesto, Calif.

October 16, 2009

• Agilex Technologies, Inc. appointed Melissa Chapman vice president for health solutions. Chapman previously served as the chief information officer for HHS and as the acting CIO for the FDA.

• Medical Mutual of Ohio named Dennis Jancsy executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Jancsy was CFO at Akron Children's Hospital.

October 15, 2009

• Health Net of California named Larry Tallman vice president of sales. He was executive vice president of sales and marketing for MGIS, a privately held benefits administrator.

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBSM) appointed Gregory Gilmet, M.D., chief medical officer; Pam Lux vice president of internal and external communications; and Mary Robb vice president of integrated health management. Gilmet was senior medical director of medical affairs at Astellas Pharma; Lux was director of public relations and internal communications for BCBSM; and Robb was senior director of integrated health management in the insurer's government programs area.

October 14, 2009

• Transdel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, named Joachim Schupp, M.D., chief medical officer. Schupp was global project leader at Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland....Solta Medical, Inc., a developer of medical aesthetics, appointed Jeffrey C. Nardoci vice president of global marketing. Nardoci was vice president and general manager of U.S. lens care and over-the-counter products at Bausch & Lomb.

October 13, 2009

• DocSite LLC, a health care IT supplier, named Paul T. Sheils CEO. He was founder of Silverado Health Partners and CEO of Aetna Health Information Solutions. Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. added Gregg A. Lapointe to its board of directors. He is CEO of Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

October 12, 2009

• Lycera Corp., a developer of novel small-molecule pharmaceuticals to treat autoimmune diseases, appointed Paul S. Changelian and Peter L. Toogood to the company's drug development team. Toogood, who was an associate director and research fellow at Pfizer Inc., will be Lycera's vice president of chemistry and chemical biology. Changelian worked for nearly 20 years as a researcher for Pfizer, in several roles, including director of inflammation biology, and will be Lycera's vice president of biology.

October 9, 2009

• American Laser Centers named Steven Straus CEO. Straus was CEO of Cincinnati-based LCA-Vision, Inc.
• Systagenix Wound Management appointed Robert Snyder, M.D., medical director. Snyder is an adjunct professor at Temple University College of Podiatric Medicine.

October 8, 2009

• Novella Clinical Inc. appointed Kimberly Hunsicker vice president of project management for its medical device and diagnostics division. Hunsicker was director of clinical programs at a Johnson & Johnson medical device company.
• NeoStem, Inc., a pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells company, named Teresa Lepore vice president of sales and marketing. Lepore was senior vice president at PinnacleCare.

October 7, 2009

• Vangent, Inc., a developer of information management and business process outsourcing tools, promoted Wanda Gamble to vice president of business development for federal, state and local health of the Health Solutions Group. Gamble was business development director.
• US Oncology, Inc. named Roger Anderson, Dr.P.H., chief pharmacy officer. Anderson was senior vice president and chief pharmacist with Medco Health Solutions, Inc. from 2004 to 2008.

October 6, 2009

• Hospital operator Tenet Healthcare Corp. named Kelvin Baggett, M.D., chief medical officer. Baggett was chief operating officer and vice president of clinical strategy for HCA Clinical Services Group.

• Mina Mohammadi, M.D., was appointed medical director at Barn Hill Care Center, a 154-bed skilled nursing facility in Newton, N.J. Mohammadi, with 10 years of medical experience, completed her residency in internal medicine at New York Methodist Hospital.

October 5, 2009

• Delcath Systems, Inc., a medical technology company, appointed Krishna Kandarpa, M.D., executive vice president of research and development, and chief medical officer, effective Oct. 10. Kandarpa was a tenured professor and former chair of the department of radiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and radiologist-in-chief at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center.

• Trinity Health in Novi, Mich., named Paul Neumann general counsel and senior vice president. Neumann was general counsel at Catholic Health Initiatives.

October 2, 2009

• SCIOinspire Corp., a developer of analytics-based cost-management tools for health plans, named David Hom president of wellness services. Hom is a former vice president of strategic initiatives for human resources at Pitney-Bowes Inc.

• MicroMed Cardiovascular appointed Ash Attia vice president of Asia-Pacific. Attia was vice president-Asia Pacific at Biotroniik.

October 1, 2009

• Gordon Memorial Hospital in Gordon, Neb., hired Jim LeBrun as CEO. LeBrun was practice administrator at Desert Cardiothoracic Surgeons in Phoenix.

• Omnicare, Inc. appointed James M. Pusey, M.D., president and CEO of Omnicare Clinical Research. He was senior vice president and general manager of global clinical development at MDS Pharma Services.

September 30, 2009

• Northeast Health System, parent company of Beverly, Addison Gilbert and BayRidge hospitals in Massachusetts, appointed Ken Hanover president and CEO. Hanover was president and CEO of Health Alliance in southwest Ohio.

• The Generic Pharmaceutical Assn. named Bill Head senior vice president of government affairs. Head was vice president of federal government affairs at Medco Health Solutions.

September 29, 2009

• Catalent Pharma Solutions, Inc. appointed Will Downie group president of sterile technologies, and senior vice president of global sales and Marketing, effective Oct. 12. Downie was vice president and global leader of GE Healthcare's Molecular Imaging business.

• Tianyin Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. promoted Tao Yang to chief operating officer. Yang was chief advisor for sales and marketing.

September 28, 2009

• Hamilton Health Care System in Dalton, Ga., appointed Jeff Myers president and CEO, effective Jan. 1. Myers was CEO at Alliant Health Plans.

• EnteroMedics Inc., a developer of medical devices using neuroblocking technology to treat obesity and other gastrointestinal disorders, named Dan Cohen senior vice president for government relations and health policy. Cohen was senior vice president of government relations and public policy for US Oncology.

September 25, 2009

• Rite Aid Corp. named Ernie Richardsen group vice president of pharmaceutical purchasing and clinical services. Richardsen was vice president of pharmacy category management for the former Brooks Eckerd drugstore chain.

• AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, appointed William J. Slichenmyer, M.D., chief medical officer (CMO). Slichenmyer was CMO at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals.

September 24, 2009

• Micromet, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, appointed Jan Fagerberg, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer, effective Nov. 1. Fagerberg was oncology clinical leader at F. Hoffmann-La Roche

• Managed care company AMERIGROUP Corp. named Timothy McDonald senior vice president of strategic market initiatives and Tara J. Wall senior vice president of corporate communications. McDonald was an independent consultant, providing marketing, business development and strategic planning consulting services to national health care companies, including AMERIGROUP. Wall was deputy editorial page editor and columnist, news anchor and analyst for The Washington Times.

September 23, 2009

• Adnan H. Tahir, M.D., was named chief medical officer (CMO) of Sisters of Charity Health System in Cleveland. He will also continue as CMO at St. Vincent Charity Hospital in Cleveland.

• HealthCare Insight, a division of Verisk Health, Inc. and a developer of fraud, abuse and overpayment prevention tools, appointed Jason Pierson chief information officer. Most recently, Pierson formed and operated his own software and technology consulting company.

September 22, 2009

• Medical records and billing software maker Quality Systems Inc. named Philip Kaplan chief operating officer (COO). Kaplan was CEO of technology company Deer Valley Ventures LLC.

• Health Discovery Corp., a personalized medicine company specializing in molecular diagnostics, appointed John A. Norris COO. Norris was former deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

September 21, 2009

• Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., appointed Peter F. Malet, M.D., director of the Center for Liver Diseases in the hospital's Institute for Digestive Disorders. Malet joins Winthrop after more than a decade at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

• Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Pottstown, Pa., named Scott Weiskittel assistant CEO. Weiskittel was director of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Stonecrest Medical Center in Tennessee.

September 18, 2009

• IMS Health, a developer of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and health care industries, promoted Donald G. Otterbein to general manager of business transformation services. He was responsible for developing and delivering the company's information offerings for the company's Americas region.

• Pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis appointed Hugh O'Neill president and CEO of its Canadian operations. O'Neill was vice president of the company's U.S. operations.

September 17, 2009

• Vangent, Inc., an information management and strategic business process outsourcing company, named Kerry Weems senior vice president of health strategy. Weems was acting administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

• Blue Shield of California appointed Marc Russo vice president of senior markets within the company's Individual, Small Group and Government Business Unit. Russo was regional president at UnitedHealthcare.

September 16, 2009

• Ophthalmic company OptiMedica Corp. appointed Alan Marquardt vice president of regulatory, clinical and quality. He was vice president of regulatory, clinical and quality at Sanarus Medical Inc.
  
• ITelagen, Inc., a health IT and support company, named Gary Reed vice president of sales for the North East region. Reed comes to the company with more than 20 years as a health care sales executive.

September 15, 2009

• Medical technology company Delcath Systems Inc. named David A. McDonald chief financial officer. He takes over the role from Paul Feinstein, who resigned in December 2008. McDonald was senior vice president of business development at AngioDynamics Inc.

• POZEN Inc., a pharmaceutical company appointed Elizabeth A. Cermak executive vice president and chief commercial officer. She was worldwide vice president of the personal products franchise at Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products.

September 14, 2009

• Vidacare Corp. appointed Michael Voss senior vice president of the company's vascular access business unit. He was vice president and general manager of Spectranetics Corp.'s vascular interventions division.

• The American Association of Tissue Banks named Diane Wilson president. She is chief operating officer of Community Tissue Services.

September 11, 2009

• Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc. appointed Edward Harlow, Jr., Ph.D., chief scientific officer. He was associate director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.

• California-based Hospice of the Valley named Neal Slatkin, M.D., chief medical officer.

September 10, 2009

• Lannett Company, Inc. appointed Stephen Kovary vice president of operations. He was vice president and plant manager for PF Laboratories, a division of Purdue Pharma.

• Enzo Biochem, Inc. named Mohan Chellani, Ph.D., vice president of scientific affairs at its Enzo Clinical Labs subsidiary. He was head of science and innovation portfolio development at Quest Diagnostics Inc.

September 9, 2009

• Quanterix Corp. appointed David Okrongly, Ph.D., CEO and a member of the company's board of directors.  He was senior vice president of Siemens Healthcare's Diagnostics Division.

• Roche Holding Ltd. named Pascal Soriot chief operating officer of the company's pharmaceutical division.

September 8, 2009

• HCA Inc., a corporate operator of hospitals and health systems, named Richard Tayrien chief health information officer. He is now vice president of clinical information systems for Catholic Healthcare West.

• AARP Foundation appointed Sharyn Sutton vice president of strategy and communications.

September 4, 2009

• EK Health Services named Oliver Ostlander vice president of operations and business development. He was the executive director of service center operations at Coventry Health Care, Inc.

• Transcend Medical, Inc. hired Sean Ianchulev, M.D., as chief medical officer and Ginger Clasby as vice president of clinical affairs.

September 3, 2009

• RxEOB named Shaw Newman sales director for its strategic health plan solution campaign. Shaw returns to RxEOB after serving as director of sales for the Eastern Region at Zynchros, Inc.

• Saint John's Health Center appointed Amin Kassam, M.D., director of the new Saint John's Neuroscience Institute and faculty member of the John Wayne Cancer Institute. Kassam was chairman and professor of the Department of Neurological Surgery, and director of the Minimally Invasive endoNeurosurgery Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

September 2, 2009

• QuadraMed Corp. named Bonnie Cassidy vice president of health information management consulting services. Cassidy has more than 20 years of executive experience in health care management and consulting, and is the president-elect of the American Health Information Management Association.

• Medical device maker Stentys Inc. appointed Paul Geudens vice president of sales and marketing. Geudens was director of marketing, peripheral and neurovascular products at Cordis Corp.

September 1, 2009

• Medicare Advantage plan Touchstone Health named Bryan Birch president and CEO. Birch was president of Medco Health Solutions, Inc.'s employer accounts.
  

• Boston Scientific Corp. named Ken Stein, M.D., senior vice president and associate chief medical officer for its Cardiac Rhythm Management group. Stein was the associate director of clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Weill Cornell Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at Cornell University

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