Leadership

The Kentucky Medical Association installed Michael Kuduk, MD, as the organization's 173rd president during an annual meeting, Kentucky Today reported Aug. 29.

Phoenix Children's has named Jared Muenzer, MD, as its next chief physician executive.

Nandita Gupta, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth's St. John Medical Center in Longview, effective Aug. 28.

Ballad Health has reconfigured its chief medical officer structure in efforts to strengthen the system's physician leadership. 

Nurse practitioners with doctorates have increasingly been pushing back on states' moves to address whether nonphysicians can be called doctors, The Washington Post reported Aug. 20.

Anthony Hatcher, DO, has been named CEO of Hillcrest Health Services, a healthcare provider for aging adults based in Bellevue, Neb.

Here are eight leaders who have taken on or stepped down from CEO roles reported by Becker's since Aug. 11:

HealthCare Partners IPA is the largest independent physician group in the country, according to a July 26 report from Definitive Healthcare. 

Chief nurse anesthetist is the best-paying nurse job, with an average annual salary of $211,500, according to a report on Nursing Process. 

Many physician leaders feel noncompetes, which prohibit physicians from joining a competing practice or setting up their own within a particular geographic distance from their previous practice for a certain period of time, are stifling physician autonomy.