Leadership

Bruce Scott, MD, an otolaryngologist from Kentucky, has been named president-elect of the American Medical Association.

Texas Children's Hospital's Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD, Honduran-trained biomedical scientist and co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development, has been honored with The Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare. 

Consensus Health, a prominent physician-owned medical group comprising over 150 primary care providers and specialty doctors across 60-plus New Jersey locations, has announced the appointment of COO Michael Lovett to the additional position of president. 

Todd Smith, MD, has been named the inaugural chief physician executive of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, effective June 12.

Richard Isaacs, MD, has been named dean of the California Northstate University School of Medicine in Elk Grove, according to a June 4 report from The Sacramento Bee.

President Joe Biden is expected to appoint Mandy Cohen, MD, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, to head the CDC after Rochelle Walensky, MD, steps down June 30, according to The Washington Post.

Sharmila Makhija, MD, MBA, founding Dean and CEO of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Ark., recently joined Becker's to share her vision and goals for the school.

The California Medical Association was recognized by the National Association of Asian Pacifics in Politics and Public Affairs as one of its 2023 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champions.

Robert Harrington, MD, has been appointed the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

Karen Kim, MD, had been appointed dean of the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa.