Leadership

Andrew Pecora, MD, has been named CEO of Outcomes Matter Innovations, a technology company focusing on providing management services for providers in the Northeast and facilitating values-based care reimbursement for specialty physicians.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a team of physician leaders helping to make executive decisions and recommendations. Meet 10 CDC physician leaders for 2023 (information is from the agency's website): 

Here are 10 physicians entering positions in the C-suite Becker's has reported on since Jan. 17:

Here are nine physicians stepping into leadership roles outside of the C-suite Becker's has reported on since Jan. 16:

Indianapolis-based Riley Children's Health has named Mara Nitu, MD, as chief medical officer and Elaine Cox, MD, as chief physician executive.

Eric Newton, MD, has been named president of University Gastroenterology, the largest gastroenterology group in Rhode Island.

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.