Dr. Vasilevskis
Eduard Vasilevskis, MD, MPH, was named division chief of hospital medicine within the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Previously he was an associate professor and a section chief at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
Dr. Vasilevskis earned his medical degree from Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland and completed his internal medicine residency and fellowships in health services research and general internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco and a Master of Public Health at Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Mehrotra
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, will become the chair of the department of health services, policy, and practice at Brown University in Providence, R.I., effective July 1, 2024. He will also serve as a professor of health services, policy, and practice, and he is a hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Previously he was a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mehrotra earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Boston. Dr. Mehrotra earned a Master’s in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Andrew
Christina L. Andrew, DO, SFHM, has been promoted to vice president for medical services and chief medical officer at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, S.C. She has been a hospitalist there for the last 16 years, and the medical director of hospitalist services since 2013.
In her new role, Dr. Andrew is responsible for establishing and enhancing effective relationships and communications with the medical staff, and assisting chiefs of staff and medical staff officers to ensure that appropriate physician educational peer review and quality assurance systems are in place.
Dr. Andrew earned her medical degree from the Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center and completed her residency in internal medicine at Cleveland Clinic.
Mr. Desamours
Patrick Desamours, MSPA, PA-C, MBA, CHCQM, SFHM, is now the founder and CEO of Klinician Capital, in Beltsville, Md. His company facilitates multifamily real estate investment opportunities for healthcare professionals.
Previously, Mr. Desamours was the director of APP operations, hospital medicine at US AcuteCare Solutions in Westminster, Md.,
Mr. Desamours earned his physician assistant degree from the University of Charleston in Charleston, W.Va., and a Master of Business Administration and Finance from Louisiana State University, Shreveport.
Dr. Kripalani
Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, FACP, SFHM, vice president for health system sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., has been named to a three-year term on the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The Council, consisting of 20 members from the private sector and ex-officio members from seven federal agencies, helps guide national priorities for health services research that promotes improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of clinical practice, and equitable access to healthcare.
Dr. Kripalani is a professor of medicine and previously served as founder and chief of the section of hospital medicine at Vanderbilt. He now directs the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research and the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research.
He earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed his residency in internal medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, where he also completed a hospital medicine fellowship and a Master of Science in clinical research.
Dr. Patel
Chirag R. Patel, DO, FACP, SFHM, has been named senior vice-president and chief medical officer at UF Health Jacksonville in Fla., where he has served as assistant chief medical officer since 2020 and medical director of hospital medicine since 2019. He is also a University of Florida assistant professor of medicine. Dr. Patel will oversee clinical operations, quality, and safety in his new role.
Before joining UF Health, Dr. Patel was on the leadership team at the Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, where he served as medical director of quality and patient safety education, associate division director of hospital medicine, and held numerous roles in both the College of Medicine and graduate medical education.
He earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and completed his internal medicine residency at Mount Carmel Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Johnson
Gregory R. Johnson, MD, FAAFP, FACP, SFHM, has been named chief medical officer, effective July 8, of UnityPoint Health in West Des Moines, Iowa. In this role, he will lead the physician workforce and enterprise-wide initiatives focused on quality of care, patient experience, safety, care coordination, and service line development.
Previously he was the CEO of hospital medicine and chief health equity and diversity officer for Sound Physicians, a Tacoma, Wash.-based medical group practicing community-based medicine in more than 400 hospitals across 45 states.
Dr. Johnson earned his medical degree from the McGovern School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston and completed his residency in both internal medicine and family practice at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans.