Leadership

Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, has been selected as the next chief of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital. 

Debra Houry, MD, chief medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been awarded the American Medical Association's award for outstanding government service, according to a Feb. 15 report from the organization. 

Timothy Tesmer, MD, was named the next chief medical officer of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health.

Johnson & Johnson has added Paula Johnson, MD, president of Wellesley (Mass.) College to its board of directors.

David Huang, MD, PhD, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for co-inventing optical coherence tomography.

Sharmila Makhija, MD, has been appointed founding dean and CEO of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, a medical degree program seeking accreditation in Bentonville, Ark.

Johnson & Johnson has appointed John Reed, MD, PhD, to its executive committee as executive vice president of pharmaceuticals, research and development.

Here are three fraud cases involving physicians that Becker's has reported on since Feb. 3:

South Carolina-based Prisma Health has established a $3 million endowment to go towards an endowed chair position in molecular oncology research, according to a Feb. 13 report from the Greenville Journal.

Two physician leaders recently connected with Becker's to discuss the healthcare trends they are wary of.