David Lankford, MD, an Indiana-based pediatric intensivist, filed a lawsuit against Lutheran Medical Group to prevent his former employer from enforcing a noncompete agreement, according to a report in The Journal Gazette.
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David Trofa, MD, has been appointed head team physician for the athletics program at Columbia University in New York City.
West Virginia emergency physician Tony Kelly, MD, has become the first director of the West Virginia First Foundation board, according to a July 5 report from MetroNews.
Chad Whelan, MD, has been named the first physician president of Miami Valley Hospital as well as system chief operating officer.
The Supreme Court ruled June 29 that U.S. universities and colleges cannot include race as a factor in admissions, saying such policies violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, according to The New York Times.
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Anthony Fauci, MD, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has joined the faculty at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Three physicians have left Norton (Kan.) County Hospital after the 25-bed hospital fired former CEO Brian Kirk.
Richard Blinkhorn, MD, has been appointed executive vice president and chief physician executive and clinical officer of Cleveland-based MetroHealth.
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