Eric Newton, MD, has been named president of University Gastroenterology, the largest gastroenterology group in Rhode Island.
Leadership
Arjun Venkatesh, MD, has been named chair of the department of emergency medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and chief of emergency medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital; both are in New Haven, Conn. He will assume the roles…
Mark Lee, MD, was named medical director of electrophysiology at MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute at Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center.
Dr. Margit Janát-Amsbury, PhD, was appointed chief medical officer of Halia Therapeutics, a Salt Lake City-based biopharmaceutical company.
Dr. Martha Gulati has been named the Anita Dann Friedman Endowed Chair in women's cardiovascular medicine and research for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Dr. April Armstrong has been named vice president for orthopedic services for Penn State Health Medical Group, which treats patients throughout central Pennsylvania.
Kevin Heller, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Tallac Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company using innate and adaptive immunity to fight cancer.
Dr. Amre Nouh has been named regional chair of neurology for Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston and will lead the clinic's Neuroscience Institute.
AposHealth, a musculoskeletal medical device company, has selected Harry Leider, MD, as its next chief medical officer and executive vice president.
Anne Borgman, MD, has joined the board of directors for NiKang Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focusing on the development of small molecule oncology medicines.
