Leadership

Ardent Health Services, a Nashville, Tenn.-based health system, has selected Brad Hoyt, MD, as its next chief medical information officer.

Dr. Mouaz Al-Mallah has been installed as president of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology for the 2023 term. 

Susan Smyth, MD, cardiologist and dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, died of cancer on Dec. 31 at age 57, according to a Jan. 2 report from the Arkansas…

Shelly Holmström, MD, will join Florida-based INVO Bioscience as the physician operator at its INVO center in Tampa, which is set to open in the first half of 2023.

Gladys Ayala, MD, has been selected as the next dean and chief academic officer of NYU Long Island School of Medicine in Mineola, N.Y. Dr. Ayala assumes the role with more than 25 years of experience in medical education, according…

Rejuvenate Bio has appointed Deborah Ascheim, MD, as the company's first chief medical officer. 

Here are 15 physicians moving into leadership roles Becker's has reported on since Dec. 15:

James Callaghan, MD, has been promoted to senior vice president and chief operating officer of Mishawaka, Ind.--based Franciscan Alliance, which oversees 12 hospitals across Illinois and Indiana. Dr. Callaghan will assume the role Jan. 1.

Alexandra Clark, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley, Cal., Riverside University Health System announced in a release Dec. 29.

Kenneth Frisof, MD, a retired family medicine physician from Cleveland-based MetroHealth System, is calling for a CEO pay cap after the health system's CEO allegedly gave himself and others more than $2.2 million in unauthorized bonuses, Dr. Frisof wrote in…