Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
Providence
Brian Chesebro, M.D., has been named Providence’s first medical director for environmental stewardship.
Chesebro will work to direct the environmental practices for the not-for-profit Catholic health system comprised of 52 hospitals, over 900 clinics, senior services and supportive housing. He previously held the same position for the health system in Oregon. The role is one of the first of its kind in the nation.
Providence aims to be carbon negative by 2030. Chesebro will help achieve this aim through pollution mitigation, adapting systems and advocating for planet safe policies.
He is currently a working physician in anesthesiology and began his environmental work in his own specialty. Through his work, several of Providence’s hospitals have decreased greenhouse gas emissions from anesthesia by 78% and reduced overall carbon emissions by 11.5% annually since 2019. Providence reports that the reduction led to an annual savings of $10.8 million compared to 2019.
The system expects to achieve an annual savings of $100 million by 2030 through environmental measures.
CitiusTech
Rajan Kohli has been named as the new chief executive officer of healthcare IT unicorn CitiusTech.
Kohli joins the company with a valuation of over $1 billion by way of Wipro, a technology services and solutions company. During his three decades at the company, he played a role in helping the company gain $6 billion in annual revenues. At Wipro, he most recently held the position of president of integrated digital, engineering and application services business.
CitiusTech was founded in 2005 and now develops tech solutions for over 140 healthcare and life sciences organizations. The company has recently worked to shift to value-based care models, patient-centric care and healthcare industry convergence in the name of keeping pace with rapid changes in the market.
Last year, Bain Capital Private Equity announced an ownership stake in the company. Since the shift, the company has announced plans to more than double its $330 million in revenue as the global healthcare IT market expands.
Noom
Linda Anegawa, M.D., has been named digital health platform Noom’s first ever medical director.
Noom aims to help users lose weight through behavior change and completed a funding round in 2021 raking in $540 million in order to expand into diabetes and hypertension. Anegawa is a double board-certified physician in both internal medicine and obesity medicine. For two decades, Anegawa has worked in metabolic health and weight loss in academic and digital health leadership capacities.
Mandy Ginsberg will also be joining Noom as a board member. Ginsberg held the position of CEO at Match Group before becoming an independent director in 2020. She is currently the director of clothing resale app ThreadUP and a board member at ride-sharing app Uber.
Noom’s app now contains three core programs in weight, stress and diabetes management.
American Medical Women’s Association
Elizabeth Garner assumed her new role as president of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) this week. For one year she will hold leadership over the oldest multispecialty organization of women in medicine.
Garner received her M.D. and M.P.H. from Harvard and trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General hospitals. She has spent over 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry, including time at Merck, Myriad Genetics and Agile Therapeutics. Currently, she is the chief scientific officer at Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, M.D., preceded Garner in the role. Rohr-Kirchgraber holds the position of professor of medicine at Augusta University, University of Georgia Medical Partnership.
The AMWA partners with organizations like the United Nations to advocate for large scale movement toward gender equity in healthcare.
> Progyny, a benefits management company, appointed Janet Choi, M.D., as the company's chief medical officer.
> Sutter Health has named Mark Sevco as the not-for-profit Northern California healthcare system’s chief operating officer.
> National Minority Quality Forum, a nonprofit organization advocating for racially equitable healthcare, appointed Anna Norton as vice president for community engagement within the Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity.
> Ophelia hired Alexandra Minarik as chief commercial officer and Chris Sharon as chief operations officer of the opioid addiction care provider.
> Prime Therapeutics, a pharmacy benefit manager, named Mostafa Kamal as president.
> Tell Health, the creator of health-centric social media app Tell, announced the members of its medical advisory board: Heather Giannini, M.D., Peter Kahn, M.D., Vivek Moitra, M.D., Allen Hyman, M.D., Marilynn Parker and Christopher Worsham, M.D.
> Virtual Incision Corporation, a medical device company, tapped Piet Hinoul for chief medical officer.
> Imperative Care unveiled Ariel Sutton as general manager of stroke business at the medical technology company.
> Nordis Technologies, an omnichannel technology solution provider, selected Steve Dubner as vice president of product management.
> Greenphire, the global leader in clinical trial patient engagement and financial lifecycle management, has appointed Steve Geffon as its new chief commercial officer.
> MOBE, a data and digital health company, announced the creation of its advisory board, naming Tim Wicks and Dev Warren as board members.
> Tandem Solutions, an organizational management company, welcomed David Storto as a senior healthcare executive adviser.
> SelectHealth recently announced Curt Howell as market president of the company’s Peaks Region.
> Supira Medical chose Azeem Latib, M.D., to take the job of medical director of the company developing percutaneous ventricular assist devices.
> PopHealthCare, a healthcare delivery company, announced Nick Snoply as chief administrative officer.
> Virtual Incision Corporation, a medical device company, hired Piet Hinoul, M.D., Ph.D., as chief medical officer.
> Vaxess Technologies, a life sciences company, announced that Steve Bende, Ph.D., has joined the company as chief strategy officer.
> Research Institute for Home Care’s Board of Directors brought on Jennifer Sheets as chairperson.