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Hiring
Based in North Carolina Health advocate has hired Erich Huang as its new chief research information officer and vice president of IT. He arrived in the company In trutha precision health company owned by technology giant Alphabet. Prior to Verily, Huang was Director of Data for Quality at Duke Health.
Patient communications platform Artery has named Damon Lanphear as its new chief technology officer. In the past, he was director of engineering at Amazondirector of technology at Amazon Web Servicesand director of technology at 98point6.
Healthcare Analytics Company Cotivity has named Ric Sinclair as its new CEO. He joined the company Path Starwhere he spent nine years as sales director. Before that, Sinclair spent about a decade as a product manager at healthcare revenue cycle company ZirMed until it merged with Navicure in 2017 and consolidated to become Waystar.
Flare Capital Partners welcomed two new executive partners to its investment firm: Graham Gardner and Rochelle Walensky. Gardner founded and served as CEO of a healthcare software company Kyruus Healthwhich RevSpring acquired last year. Walensky is the former director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)as well as the former head of the infectious diseases department at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, named Desiree Gandrup-Dupre as its new CIO, effective April 13. She will join the health system after spending 23 years at Kaiser Permanente, most recently serving as senior vice president of care delivery and technology services.
Neko Healtha Swedish startup focused on early disease detection, has hired Sunita Mishra as its chief medical officer. She is the former chief medical officer of Amazonas well as the former general manager of ExpressCare at Providence.
SCAN Group welcomed Aman Bhandari as its first Director of AI. It happened to the organization of Vertex Pharmaceuticalswhere he served as vice president of data science. Prior to Vertex, Bhandari worked as Executive Director of Data and Insights at Merckas well as senior U.S. advisor and HHS chief technology officer at the White House.
Promotions
The Cigna group announced that its COO, Brian Evanko, will succeed longtime leader David Cordani as CEO, effective July 1. Evanko has worked at the organization for nearly three decades, joining in 1998 in an actuary role.
Outings
Beth Israel Lahey Health CEO Kevin Tabb told his board he would step down in a year. He has led the Massachusetts-based health system since its creation in 2019, when Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center merged with Lahey Health. Prior to the merger, he had been CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess since 2011.
Vinay Prasad, the embattled leader of FDACenter for Evaluation and Research on Biological Products, deceased the agency for the second time in less than a year.
Health Vanderbilt CEO Jeff Balser announced he would retire at the end of the year. He has held this position for 17 years.
Layoffs
Health technology company CoverMyMeds laid off certain employees in March as part of a restructuring carried out by its parent company, McKessonwhich said it was diverting resources from existing services to newer technologies. The company did not disclose how many workers were affected, but the reductions involved several teams and come three years after a much larger wave of layoffs that eliminated around 815 jobs in 2023.
Oracle began dismissal thousands of employees this month as part of a restructuring aimed at cutting costs and funding major investments in AI infrastructure and data centers. The reductions affected workers across multiple divisions and regions, with analysts estimating that reductions could eventually reach tens of thousands of positions, although the company did not confirm a total figure.
Takeda announcement layoffs as part of a multi-year restructuring plan aimed at saving approximately $1.25 billion annually and streamlining operations. The reductions could affect approximately 634 employees in the United States, including approximately 247 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
California Blue Shield let go 69 employees at several locations across the state, according to a WARN filing. The cuts are set to take effect April 8 and represent less than 1% of the company’s workforce, with the payer saying it regularly adjusts its workforce based on business needs.