SIOUX FALLS, SD: Sanford Children's Hospital announces CMO

Joseph Segeleon, MD has been appointed to Sanford Children's Hospital Chief Medical Officer for Sioux Falls. Dr. Segeleon replaces Eugene Hoyme, MD who was recently named president of Sanford Research. Dr. Segeleon has served as the PICU director for many years. He worked as an assistant professor of pediatric intensive care at the Sanford School of Medicine at The University of South Dakota School from 1997 to 2002. He returned to South Dakota in 2005 as associate professor of pediatrics, chief division of pediatric critical care medicine and was promoted to professor in 2011. Dr. Segeleon has already started in his new role at Sanford Children's and will still maintain the role of director for the PICU at Sanford Children's.