Here are 10 chief medical officer appointments or exits reported by Becker’s between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31:
1. Jack Atwater, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of HCA Florida Capital Hospital in Tallahassee.
2. Matthew Fox, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
3. Patrick I. Okolo III, MD, was named chief medical officer of Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital.
4. Robert Harbaugh, MD, stepped down from his role as chief medical officer of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., on Nov. 1.
5. Nicholas Wells, MD, was named chief medical officer at two facilities: Calhoun, Ga.-based AdventHealth Gordon and Chatsworth, Ga.-based AdventHealth Murray.
6. Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health named Justin Reisenauer, MD, chief medical officer for its Bismarck region in North Dakota, effective Nov. 1.
7. HCA Florida Largo Hospital named Kapil Mehta, MD, chief medical officer.
8. Morton Hospital in Taunton, Mass., named Jill O’Brien, MD, chief medical officer and medical director of hospital medicine.
9. 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.
10. HCA Midwest Health appointed Lowell Ebersole, DO, chief medical officer of Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo.
