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Miriam Parsa, MD, has been appointed chief pediatric medical officer for Cottage Health, a healthcare system based in Santa Barbara, Calif. 

Kishor Vora, MD, a physician practicing in Owensboro, Ky., has settled in a Medicare fraud case, the Messenger-Inquirer reported Jan. 5. 

Maryland-based Meritus Health has selected the first associate dean and chief medical officer for the proposed Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine in Hagerstown, Md., the Hagerstown Herald-Mail reported Jan. 5.

Raashan Williams, MD, has been named medical director of the Catheterization Laboratory at the Jersey City Medical Center in New Jersey, the Hudson County View reported Jan. 3.

Claudia Gidea, MD, has been appointed medical director of heart transplant, mechanical circulatory support and advanced heart failure at Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center.

Samuel Cloud, DO, has been named the chief medical officer of Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y., the center announced in a release Jan. 3.

Ardent Health Services, a Nashville, Tenn.-based health system, has selected Brad Hoyt, MD, as its next chief medical information officer.

Dr. Mouaz Al-Mallah has been installed as president of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology for the 2023 term. 

Shelly Holmström, MD, will join Florida-based INVO Bioscience as the physician operator at its INVO center in Tampa, which is set to open in the first half of 2023.

Gladys Ayala, MD, has been selected as the next dean and chief academic officer of NYU Long Island School of Medicine in Mineola, N.Y. Dr. Ayala assumes the role with more than 25 years of experience in medical education, according…