Leadership

The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network has added Taylorville (Ill.) Memorial Hospital's president and CEO, Kim Bourne, to its 2023 board of directors.

Thuy-Anh Melvin, MD, has been named physician-in-chief for Kaiser Permanente's Northern Virginia service area, Inside Nova reported Jan. 13.

Lucio Gordon, MD, has been named president and managing physician of the Fort Myers-based Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, effective Jan. 16. Dr. Gordon previously served in these roles from 2018 to 2021. 

Here are nine physicians stepping into leadership roles outside of the C-suite Becker's has reported on since Jan. 3:

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services appointed Heidi Miller, MD, as its first chief medical officer.

Benjamin Mizell, MD, has been named chief of anesthesia at Mass Eye and Ear, part of Mass General Brigham in Boston.

The CDC has appointed Nirav Shah, MD, as principal deputy director. He will become second in leadership under CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, in March.

Debra Bogen, MD, has been nominated as Pennsylvania's secretary of health by Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Jan. 12.

Mark Edney, MD, has been selected as the next public policy chair by the American Urological Association. He will begin serving as chair-elect June 1 and start his official four-year term June 1, 2024.

The University of Iowa in Iowa City is looking for a new vice president of medical affairs and dean of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine to replace Brooks Jackson, who will return to faculty once…