Here are 20 physicians who have been appointed to or will retire from executive roles within their respective hospitals, health system and healthcare organizations since March 1, 2026:
1. Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, president and CEO of Vanderbilt Health and dean of Vanderbilt University’s school of medicine, shared plans to retire from both roles.
2. Matthew Alder, MD, PhD, was named inaugural pediatrician-in-chief and chief medical officer for Springfield, Mo.-based St. Louis Children’s at CoxHealth.
3. Adia Ross, MD, was appointed president of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point (N.C.) Medical Center.
4. Hatem Mourad, MD, was named chief medical officer for Meridian, Miss.-based Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center.
5. Alireza “Shami” Shamshirsaz, MD, was named director of the Comprehensive Fetal Care Center, a clinical partnership between Ascension’s Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin and Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.
6. John Delzell Jr., MD, was appointed Richmond-based VCU Health’s designated institutional officer and senior associate dean for Graduate Medical Education for the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine.
7. LaKeeya Tucker, DO, was appointed chief medical officer of Memorial Hospital Miramar (Fla.) and Memorial Hospital Pembroke in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
8. Michael Hochberg, MD, was promoted to chief hospital executive of Hoboken (N.J.) University Hospital, formerly Hoboken University Medical Center.
9. Dave Schneider, MD, was named associate chief medical information officer for Madison, Wis.-based UW Health.
10. Richard McKenzie, DO, was appointed chief medical officer for Littleton (N.H.) Regional Healthcare.
11. Daniel Miller, MD, was appointed vice president of quality and chief quality officer for Brunswick-based Southeast Georgia Health System.
12. Parikshet Babber, MD, was named chief medical officer for San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare.
13. Jason Mouzakes, MD, was named president and CEO of Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Hospital.
14. Kevin Tabb, MD, shared plans to step down as president and CEO of Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts.
15. Rosemarie Fernandez, MD, was appointed chair of the department of emergency medicine for Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic.
16. Habib Samady, MD, was appointed senior vice president and Carilion’s inaugural director of the Cardiovascular Institute.
17. Jonathan Marmur, MD, was named chair of the cardiology department at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in the Queens borough of New York City.
18. Grant Greenberg, MD, was appointed chair of the department of family and community medicine at Carilion Clinic and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
19. Collin Brathwaite, MD, was appointed system chief of bariatric surgery and chair of surgery at Northwell’s Plainview (N.Y.) Hospital.
20. Curtis Horstman, DO, was named chief medical officer for West Plains, Mo.-based Ozarks Healthcare.
