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.
Intermountain Healthcare
Marc Harrison, M.D., president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, will be stepping away from the health system this fall for a new role at General Catalyst, according to a Thursday afternoon release.
Harrison will be taking on “a leadership position to run a healthcare platform business” for the investment firm, per the announcement.
The recently merged 33-hospital system’s board will be naming an interim president and CEO, the organization said, and plans to kick off a national search for Harrison’s permanent replacement in the fall.
The executive has held Intermountain’s top roles since 2016. He was previously chief of international business development and chief medical operations officer at Cleveland Clinic, as well as the CEO of its Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi hospital.
Clover Health
Andrew Toy will transition into the CEO role at Clover Health as the Medicare Advantage startup’s top executive, Vivek Garipalli, moves into a new position as executive chairperson.
The job changes are scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, 2023.
Toy is a co-founder of Clover who initially served as its chief technology officer and board member upon joining in 2018. He helped Clover launch the Clover Assistant app for physicians as well as a new fee-for-service Medicare business line and took up the mantle of president in 2019.
Toy was previously the CEO and co-founder of a tech company acquired by Google in 2014, at which time he helped coordinate enterprise activities within the Android team and headed the G-Suite team’s machine learning, enterprise search and analytics.
Clover’s founder Garipalli will be retaining several of his current responsibilities despite the title change.
The company said the transition is part of a succession plan that’s been in place since 2018. The executive chairperson and CEO roles have been structured as “inherently symbiotic” and will lean on each other for the coming years, according to the announcement.
William Shrank, M.D., chief medical officer at Humana, announced his departure from the large payer on LinkedIn, effective Aug. 5.
Shrank had been with Humana for the past three and a half years, during which he said he was proud of his group’s work “fostering team-based care at scale, to rapidly growing and enhancing the clinical culture of our senior-focused primary care, to driving more progressive value-based care models.” Shrank also noted efforts to reorient the government affairs team and the opening of an Office of Health Equity at the payer.
Shrank was an internal medicine practitioner who went on to serve as an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and was director of evaluation at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. He was also senior vice president, chief scientific officer and chief medical officer of provider innovation at CVS Health from 2013 to 2016 and the chief medical officer of UPMC Health Plan between 2016 and 2019.
Shrank did not announce any upcoming position but wrote on LinkedIn that he is “excited for my next adventure.”
Joyce Sackey, M.D., is coming to Stanford Medicine as its first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer as well as an associate dean, the academic system announced Wednesday.
Sackey’s appointment is the result of an eight-month national search recommended by Stanford Medicine’s Commission on Justice and Equity.
Sackey grew up in Ghana, came to the U.S. after high school and spent 20 years practicing as a physician and educator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.
She’s been with Tufts University for the past 14 years, holding roles as dean for multicultural affairs and global health at its school of medicine and as associate provost and chief diversity officer for its health sciences schools.
Sackey will be at the top of enterprisewide diversity, health equity and inclusion efforts at Stanford, will support the organization’s existing efforts in these departments and will help implement other recommendations issued by the aforementioned commission.
Her appointment begins Sept. 1 and will see Sackey reporting to the dean of Stanford School of Medicine as well as the CEOs of the Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health hospitals
Creagh Milford has taken on an expanded role at CVS Health as SVP of retail health, according to social media posts from Milford and CVS Health Chief Medical Officer Sree Chaguturu, M.D.
The physician executive’s career has weaved in and out of provider organization, government, academia and the payer space.
Several of these roles focused on population health management, risk-based primary care and innovation.
Milford has now been with CVS Health for nearly a year, having initially been hired on as its head of enterprise virtual care. He will be working on integrating CVS’ MinuteClinic, HealthHUB and Virtual Care offerings “to further enhance our connected care delivery experience for patients and consumers,” Milford said in his social media announcement.
> University Hospitals appointed Scott Sasser, M.D., as chief physician executive and president of University Hospitals Medical Group and University Hospitals Physician Services.
> Magellan Health tapped Centene’s Tom Britt as chief information officer.
> The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association unveiled John Banta as VP of National Employee Benefits Administration and Blue Venture Fund.
> Cincinnati Children’s will see Rosland Fisher McLeod join as SVP of legal and public affairs and chief legal officer Sept. 6.
> Centura Health, in Colorado, promoted Scott Lichtenberger, M.D., to the new role of SVP and chief transformational officer and brought on Shauna Gulley, M.D., as group president for the physician enterprise.
> Clarius Mobile Health, a wireless ultrasound system provider, promoted Ohad Arazi to CEO. Arazi succeeds founder Laurent Pelissier, who will be transitioning to the chief innovation officer position.
> BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee announced Tal Cohen as its first director of provider data.
> MemorialCare named Laurie Sicaeros as chief strategy officer and Leadership Academy dean.
> El Camino Health, in California, unveiled Meenesh Bhimani, M.D., as its new chief operating officer.
> Reading Hospital in Pennsylvania announced Michelle Trupp as chief operating officer.
> HealthTech promoted Dominic Symes to EVP of staffing solutions and chief revenue officer.
> CareQuest Institute for Oral Health tapped Kaz Rafia as its first chief health equity officer.
> Manatt, Phelps & Phillips saw Cynthia Bero join the firm’s Boston office as a Manatt Health senior adviser.
> Collective Health added Mark Laret to its board of directors.
> Doximity appointed Phoebe Yang to its board of directors.
> PhysIQ named Michael Neeb as special adviser to the office of the CEO.