Over the past month, Becker’s has tracked 11 chief medical officer appointments, promotions and departures across U.S. health systems.
Editor’s note: This list is not exhaustive.
- Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Ga., part of Vitruvian Health, named Ricardo Perez, DO, chief medical officer.|
- Patrick I. Okolo III, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital.
- Robert Harbaugh, MD, will step down from his role as chief medical officer of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., on Nov. 1.
- Nicholas Wells, MD, was named chief medical officer at two facilities: Calhoun, Ga.-based AdventHealth Gordon and Chatsworth, Ga.-based AdventHealth Murray.
- Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health named Justin Reisenauer, MD, chief medical officer for its Bismarck region in North Dakota, effective Nov. 1.
- HCA Florida Largo Hospital named Kapil Mehta, MD, chief medical officer.
- Morton Hospital in Taunton, Mass., named Jill O’Brien, MD, chief medical officer and medical director of hospital medicine.
- Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles named Ravi Thadhani, MD, executive vice president of clinical affairs and chief medical officer for the system and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
- HCA Midwest Health appointed Lowell Ebersole, DO, chief medical officer of Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo.
- Missoula-based Providence Montana Service Area named Daniel Spoon, MD, chief medical officer.
- Michael Lynch, MD, has been named president and CEO of Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, N.H. He previously served as chief medical officer.
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