Seattle Children's named Lisa Brandenburg hospital president. Effective immediately, Brandenburg will leave her five year role as hospital chief administrative officer (CAO) to take on the new leadership position. Brandenburg has 21 years experience leading complex service organizations, including the University of Washington Medical Center. Brandenburg replaces former hospital president and COO Pat Hagan who after more than 15 years of service resigned from his position last January to serve as a Continuous Performance Improvement (CPI) consultant. In addition to CAO, Brandenburg has been serving as interim president since Hagan's departure.
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare announced that it named Stephen L. Ondra, MD, senior vice president and chief medical officer for Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Ondra was the former senior policy advisor for the US Dept of Veterans Affair. He also was Co-Chair of Health Information Technology in the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Ondra had been a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for more than thirteen years prior to entering into governmental service. While serving as a senior veteran' affairs advisor and within the Executive Office of the President, Ondra maintained his faculty appointment as professor of neurological surgery for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Ondra assumes the role on April 16, 2012. Ondra's medical career spans nearly three decades.
Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center in Augusta hired Steven M. Scott as its new chief operating officer Scott recently was executive administrator for professional services at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Ore. Prior, he was vice president of facilities and ancillary services for the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County–Wishard Health Services in Indianapolis.
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.
Roddy Young, the Office of Public Affairs' vice president for communications, has been appointed as the vice president for communications and marketing for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock healthcare system, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College. Young, who has been working for the College since June 2011, will assume his new post on April 23, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The position is a newly created role at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, according to Young. Prior to joining the College as vice president of communications, Young was a senior vice president with TMG Strategies/MSLGroup, a Washington, D.C.-based communications firm. He was the chair of the MSLGroup's Reputation Management Practice and the director of TMG's media relations team.
TriStar Centennial Medical Center announces Trudi Lovinski, Registered Nurse and Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, has been promoted to the position of Vice President of Quality and Risk Management. Lovinski began her career at Centennial as Director of Quality and Risk Management in August 2000. Since 1987, she has served in director of quality and risk management roles with an emphasis on regulatory compliance. Lovinski received licensure as a Registered Nurse through Wheeling Hospital School of Nursing, Wheeling, West VA, and a Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare Administration from the College of St. Francis in Joliet, IL.