Dates included below correspond to the issue of AIS’s Health Business Daily in which “People News” appeared.

Feb. 3

• Venable LLP named Brenda Tranchida counsel for its Washington, D.C., and Baltimore offices. Tranchida was director for the program compliance and operations group at CMS....SelectQuote Benefit Solutions appointed David Embry senior vice president of sales and client services. Embry was managing director of client service, sales and marketing for JPMorgan's Retirement Plan Services unit.

Feb. 2

• The Segal Company named Kenneth Vieira and Richard Ward senior vice presidents and consulting actuaries for its public sector health practice. Vieira was head of the government programs health actuarial practice at Aon Hewitt. Ward was a consultant for Aon Hewitt....UHC appointed Scott Glasrud executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective May 1. Glasrud was the chief financial officer at The University of Kansas Hospital.

Feb. 1

• Care to Care named Carol Folkman vice president of client services, Lee C. Reed director of clinical services, and Doreen Wilburn-Smith director of call center operations. Folkman was national director of business development at Health Management Systems. Reed was clinical development lead at CareCore National, LLC. Wilburn-Smith was regional director N.Y. and N.J. at INROADS Inc....Catalyst for Payment Reform appointed Andréa Dilweg program director. Dilweg was vice president, enterprise and health services policy at UnitedHealth Group.

Jan. 31

• Tris Pharma, an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company, named Mahdi Fawzi chief scientific officer and executive vice president of research and developement. Fawzi was president of global research and development at Warner Chilcot....PinneyAssociates, Inc., a health care consulting firm, promoted Karen Gerlach to co-director of clinical and behavioral research, Lucy Owen to vice president of program operations and over-the-counter switch, Mitch Zeller to senior vice president, Joe Gitchell to president and John Pinney to CEO.

Jan. 30

• Michael Rashid, president and CEO of the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies, has been named vice chairman of the board of directors of the Medicaid Health Plans of America....Tom Gallagher has joined the governmental consulting and insurance regulatory law practice of Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate, P.A. as a consultant. From 2003 to 2007, Gallagher was chief financial officer for the state of Florida.

Jan. 27

• Bruce Metge will step down as general counsel and secretary of Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc., effective March 1. Benjamin Preston, deputy general counsel, will replace Metge....The California Public Employees’ Retirement System re-elected Rob Feckner as board president and George Diehr as vice president for 2012. Terms for the president and vice president are one calendar year.

Jan. 26

• New Century Health, a specialty care management company, appointed Atul Dhir, M.D., CEO. Dhir was CEO of BiPar Sciences, Inc....Nimble named Jason McDowall director of mobile products. McDowall was director of product management, mobile for Salesforce.com.

Jan. 25

• The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation appointed Amy Bogner deputy director of communications. She succeeds Brittany Perez who became director of communications for the Office of Financial Regulation. Bogner was communications director for the Florida Outdoor Advertising Assn....Gilead Sciences, Inc. named Roy Baynes, M.D., senior vice president of oncology therapeutics. Baynes comes from Amgen, where he was vice president of global development and therapeutic area head, hematology oncology.

Jan. 24

• Lindquist & Vennum PLLP named Paul Thissen partner in its Minneapolis office. The firm said that Thissen joins the firm's health law practice where his experience in health care policy and reform, business strategy and commercial dispute resolution will benefit the group's portfolio of health care clients....Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, promoted Richard Davis to CEO. Davis was chief operating officer.

Jan. 23

• Jack C. Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center named James Floyd medical center director. Floyd was director of the VA Heartland Network....All Global, a health care data company, named Hilary Fischer chief operating officer, U.S., and Kerry Haynes director of operations, Europe. Fischer was vice president-global operations and compliance at Kantar Health. Haynes was associate director at AplusA Healthcare Market Research.

Jan. 20

• SNR Denton named Charles Luband partner in its health care practice. Luband joins SNR from Ropes & Gray LLP....CMS appointed Tonya Moody an innovation advisor. Moody is associate vice president of health promotion and program development at AmeriHealth Mercy.

Jan. 19

• Mary Sowers has joined Mercer Government Human Services Consulting. Prior to joining Mercer, Sowers held several senior positions at CMS....Pinstripe Healthcare named Kat McCormick health care practice leader. McCormick was region director of business development at ARAMARK Healthcare.

Jan. 18

• ProCare Rx named Dave Lee president of its PBM and Hospice divisions. Lee was director of management markets and policy at Merck Pharmaceuticals/Schering Plough Corp....MDLiveCare Health Services, Inc. promoted Chuck Hector to chief sales officer. Hector was senior vice president of channel strategies.

Jan. 17

• Jud Neal, president of Physicians Business Network, was elected vice president and president-elect of the 2012 Healthcare Billing & Management Assn. executive board. Neal will serve a one-year term as vice president before assuming the role of president....Octapharma named David Holliday vice president of commercial development. Holliday was vice president of global marketing operations and hemophilia at Baxter Bioscience.

Jan. 16

• Wayne Gattinella has resigned from his position as CEO and president of WebMD Health Corp., and as a member of its board of directors. Anthony Vuolo, chief financial officer and chief operating officer, will serve as interim CEO while the board conducts a search to fill the position on a permanent basis....Justine Handelman, vice president, legislative and regulatory policy for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Assn., has joined the board of directors of URAC. She will serve out the remainder of former board member Stephen Gammarino’s term, which runs through April 2013.

Jan. 13

• BG Medicine, Inc. named Eric Bouvier president and CEO, and a member of the board of directors. Bouvier was head of the immunoassay business at bioMerieux....Michael Drescher was appointed director of network communications for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Drescher was the communications director for former Tennessee. Gov. Phil Bredesen (D).

Jan. 12

• The National Pharmaceutical Council named Daryl Pritchard director of policy research and Matthew Grabowski a research associate. Pritchard was director of personalized medicine and research programs and advocacy at Biotechnology Industry Organization. Grabowski was a fiscal analyst for the Michigan legislature....XOMA Corp. appointed John Varian CEO. Varian has been serving as the interim CEO since Aug. 31, 2011, and has been a member of the board since December 2008.

Jan. 11

• Integrated Healthcare Strategies said that Jane Groves, who has served as the executive vice president and practice leader of its MSA Executive Search subsidiary for more than 20 years, has elected to transition management of the search practice to Pam Sime. Sime was senior vice president of the company....The Generic Pharmaceutical Assn. named David Gaugh vice president for regulatory sciences. Gaugh was vice president and general manager at Bedford Laboratories.

Jan. 10.

• PrimeraDx named David Jackson vice president of business development. Jackson was senior director at Qiagen....Advanced Pharmacy Concepts promoted Mary Ross to chief operating officer, Amanda Gallagher to director of consulting services and John Smith to interim director of information technology services. Ross was responsible for all of APC's consulting and clinical services as well as its government programs. Gallagher was a senior consultant and Smith was a data manager at APC.

Jan. 9

• NeurogesX, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, appointed Ronald Martell president and CEO and a member of the board. Martell was CEO at Poniard Pharmaceuticals, Inc....Olathe Health System in Olathe, Kan., named George Dix chief information officer (CIO). Dix was vice president and CIO at Cape Fear Valley Health System in Fayetteville, N.C.

Jan. 6

• Teva Pharmaceuticals said that CEO Shlomo Yanai will retire in May and will be succeeded by Jeremy Levin. Levin is currently senior vice president for strategy, alliances and transactions at Bristol-Myers....Cogent HMG named John Donahue CEO. Donahue is the founder and former president and CEO of National Imaging Associates, now a Magellan Health Services company.

Jan. 5

• Juan Reyes, M.D., was named director of clinical technologies by CareCloud, a Miami company that provides Web-based patient portals and practice-management systems. Reyes is also a board certified pediatrician....Dominion Dental Services appointed Bobby LeBrun sales manager for Southeastern Virginia. LeBrun comes to Dominion with 10 years of experience with regional insurance carriers and brokerages.

Jan. 4

• Saint Francis Care in Hartford, Conn., named Dawn Bryant senior vice president and chief human resource officer and Linda Shanley vice president and chief information officer (CIO). Bryant was vice president of human resources and organizational development at Carondelet Health. Shanley was CIO at Stony Brook University....Repros Therapeutics Inc. appointed Donald Tredway chief medical officer. Tredway retired from EMD Serono in July 2009 and has been acting as a regulatory and clinical development consultant to several pharmaceutical companies.

Jan. 3

• Joga Gobburu has joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Gobburu was director, pharmacometrics at the FDA.

Dec. 30

• Cetero Research named Michael Fillios chief administrative officer and David Coggin vice president of biometrics. Fillios was vice president of human resources at the company and Coggin was global head of early phase clinical data management at Covance....UCare appointed Russell Sinkler quality management director. Sinkler was director of client management at OptumInsight.

Dec. 29

• Huron Consulting Group, a business consulting company, named Daniel May managing director of its Huron Healthcare practice. May was partner and managing director at Computer Sciences Corp....Amarin Corp., a late-stage biopharmaceutical company, appointed Joseph Kennedy senior vice president, general counsel. Kennedy was vice president, general counsel and secretary of Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Dec. 28

• Essentialis, Inc., appointed Richard Pasternak, M.D., to its board of directors and as lead scientific advisor. Pasternak recently retired as vice president and head of global scientific affairs and scientific leadership at Merck & Co., Inc....DARA BioSciences, Inc. named Steve Gorlin to the board of directors as chairman. The board also approved David Drutz as president and CEO. He was interim CEO.

Dec. 27

• Aetna Inc. named Matthew Hunt managing director of health services at Aetna International. Hunt was vice president of international sales and marketing at McKesson Technology Solutions….America's Health Insurance Plans appointed Kate Callanan vice president of federal affairs and Paul Skowronek vice president of state affairs. Callanan was senior legislative assistant to Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.). Skowronek was vice president of APCO Worldwide.

Dec. 23

• SuccessEHS named Claude Ouimet, M.D., chief medical officer. Ouimet was deputy health officer at the Jefferson County Department of Health in Alabama....Carl Sirio, M.D., a member of the American Medical Assn.'s board of trustees, has been appointed vice president for medical affairs, associate dean for clinical affairs and chief medical information officer at the University of Toledo. Sirio was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Dec. 22

• ZONARE Medical Systems, Inc., a developer of high-end ultrasound tools, named Timothy Heher vice president of finance. Heher was chief financial officer at Allocade, Inc....Health Management Associates, Inc. appointed Mike Fencel CEO of its North Florida Division. Fencel was CEO of Brandon Regional Hospital in Brandon, Fla.

Dec. 21

• DARA BioSciences, Inc. said Richard Franco, Sr. has retired as chairman, president and CEO. David Drutz, M.D., who is a member of the company's board of directors, has been appointed interim CEO....BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee promoted Danny Timblin to vice president of strategy and execution. Timblin was vice president and treasurer.

Dec. 20

• MED3OOO promoted Carl Smollinger to chief operating officer. Smollinger was executive vice president of ACO and employer services....Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. appointed Robert Tidwell chief business officer. Tidwell was senior vice president of corporate development at Cell Genesys.

Dec. 19

• Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an emerging biopharmaceutical company, appointed Mark Rothera global president. Rothera was vice president and general manager of commercial operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Shire Human Genetic Therapies.... Geisinger Health System President and CEO Glenn Steele Jr., M.D., has been named chairman of the board of directors for the Premier Healthcare Alliance. Steele was previously the vice chair.

Dec. 16

• Pharmaceutical company Essentialis, Inc. promoted Aaron Berg to CEO. Berg was president and chief commercial officer....Stephen Gelineau will join The Camden Group, a health care business advisory firm, on Jan. 3 as senior vice president. Gelineau was a partner and senior vice president at the Cambridge Research Institute.

Dec. 15

• Clifford Hudis, M.D., has been elected president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology for a one-year term, beginning in June 2013. Hudis, a medical oncologist, is chief of the breast cancer medicine service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College....Kevin Hayden, president of WellPoint, Inc.'s state-sponsored business division, was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the Medicaid Health Plans of America, effective Jan. 1. Hayden will serve in this role through 2013.

Dec. 14

• Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy named Jeanne Ann Stasny vice president of pharmacy services. She was market director and general manager for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s national mail specialty pharmacy business.…Prasco Laboratories promoted Christopher Arington to vice chairman and CEO, David Vucurevich to president and chief operating officer, and David Furniss to chief financial officer

Dec. 13

• BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy named Elvin Montanez, Pharm.D., senior vice president. He was president at ProCure, Inc.…CVS Caremark Corp. appointed Kevin Murphy president of Accordant Health Services. Murphy was a partner in the human resource consulting practice of Mercer LLC.

Dec. 12

• Med-IQ named Robert Geist, M.D., clinical content manager. Geist was a board-certified family practice physician in New Zealand and in Brevard, N.C....Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. promoted Alicia Grande to vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, effective Dec. 16. Grande was corporate controller and chief accounting officer.

Dec. 9

• Barry Rothman has joined Lachman Consultants as manager, Compliance Practice. Rothman recently retired from the FDA after a 37-year career, most recently serving as acting director, Division of Good Manufacturing Practice Assessment....BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee promoted Ronald Harris to director of workplace diversity. Harris was manager of workforce diversity.

Dec. 8

• RadSite named Michael Bubel director of business operations. Bubel was associate director of implementation at VALIC....URAC said its President and CEO, Alan Spielman, has been appointed to the CMS Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education.

Dec. 7

• Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas named Thomas Royer, M.D., interim CEO, effective Jan. 1. He will replace longtime president and CEO Ron Anderson, M.D., who will remain with the system as a senior adviser. Royer was president and CEO at Christus Health, in Irving, Texas....Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., promoted Glenn Katz to CEO. Katz was president and chief operating officer.

Dec. 6

• Affimed Therapeutics AG named Eugene Zhukovsky chief scientific officer, effective Jan. 1, 2012. Zhukovsky will succeed Melvyn Little, Affirmed’s founder and current chief scientific officer, who is retiring. Zhukovsky previously was a senior research fellow in the biotherapeutics department at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc….Anna F. Dominiczak, M.D., is the new editor-in-chief of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. Dominiczak is a professor of medicine and vice principal and head of the college of medical, veterinary and life sciences at the University of Glasgow. She succeeds John E. Hall, M.D.

Dec. 5

• Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. promoted Thomas Haughey to president and Paul Campanelli to chief operating officer. Haughey was chief administrative officer. Campanelli will also continue as president of Par Pharmaceutical and assume responsibility for Strativa Pharmaceuticals....Hannibal Regional Hospital in Hannibal, Mo., named Lynn Olson CEO. Olson was CEO at Sanford Regional Hospital Worthington in Worthington, Minn.

Dec. 2

• Robert Cothren has been appointed chief technology officer (CTO) for Cal eConnect. Cothren was CTO at Cognosante....The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America promoted Richard Smith to executive vice president of policy and research. Smith was senior vice president of policy and research.

Dec. 1

• The National Assn. of Chain Drug Stores named Kathleen Jaeger senior vice president of pharmacy care and patient advocacy. Previously, Jaeger had served as executive vice president and CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Assn. and as president and CEO of the Generic Pharmaceutical Assn....Karen Davis, who since 1995 has been president of the Commonwealth Fund, said she plans to step down on Dec. 31, 2012.

Nov. 30

• invivodata inc. promoted Wolfgang Summa to vice president of worldwide operations. Summa was vice president of Europe and Asia....PathForward Oncology, LLC, a joint venture between CareCore National and D3 Oncology Solutions, named Brian Litten CEO. Litten was vice president of strategic and external affairs for a for-profit subsidiary of Independence Blue Cross.

Nov. 29

• Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. named Craig Fraser president of U.S. operations. Fraser was vice president of global disease areas at Pfizer Inc....The Alliance of Community Health Plans appointed Holly Bode director of public affairs. Bode was senior manager at Ernst & Young.

Nov. 28

• Blue Shield of California named John Hirshleifer, M.D., medical director of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). Hirshleifer was the medical director at Alta Bates Medical Group....Axia Value Chain appointed John Christina managing director of its Life Sciences and Health Care Practice Group. Christina was the account partner for a large health care client while at UST Global.

Nov. 22

• The National Association of Chain Drug Stores named Ben Moscovitch communications manager. Moscovitch was the managing editor for Inside Washington Publishers’ FDA Week and wrote for the Inside Health Policy website….Capitol Counsel hired Aaron Cohen as principal. Cohen was chief of staff to former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.).

Nov. 21

• Oregon Insurance Division Administrator Teresa Miller has been tapped to serve as a senior advisor to Steve Larsen, director of HHS’s Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. Miller, who serves on the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Board, will leave her state position Nov. 23….Jack Price, who serves as chief security officer office of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, was elected chair of the board of directors of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association.

Nov. 18

• Health Net, Inc. promoted Thomas Carrato to president, Health Net Federal Services, LLC. Carrato was the program officer for Health Net's DoD contracts....Sanofi promoted David Meeker to CEO of Genzyme, a Sanofi company. Meeker was chief operating officer.

Nov. 17

• BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee promoted John Maki to vice president of regional sales and account management. Maki was the west region sales director....CHRISTUS Health appointed Richard Clarke to a two-year term as chair of its board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2012. Clarke is president and CEO of the Healthcare Financial Management Assn.

Nov. 16

• ODS Security named Chris Cromer director of security for Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington N.C., and special projects lead for ODS's Healthcare Division. Cromer was senior manager of corporate security for Carolinas Healthcare System in Charlotte, N.C....H3 Biomedicine Inc. promoted Markus Warmuth, M.D., to president and CEO. Warmuth was chief scientific officer.

Nov. 15

• Tranzyme Pharma named Franck Rousseau, M.D., chief medical officer. Rousseau was head of Gilead Sciences' Therapeutic Area and vice president of hepatic diseases....The American College of Emergency Physicians elected Andrew Sama, M.D., an emergency physician from Manhasset, N.Y., president-elect. Sama is vice president of ACEP.

Nov. 14

• America’s Health Insurance Plans named Eric Schultz, president and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., chair of the board of directors. Schultz succeeded Vicky Gregg, president and CEO of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee....DIA, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology association, appointed Kaushik Desai director of DIA India. Kaushik was CEO and director of Global Pharmatech in Bangalore, India.

Nov. 11

• MedPro Rx, Inc. said its President Nancy McFarlane was elected mayor of Raleigh, N.C. McFarlane was first elected to the Raleigh City Council in 2007 and was serving as mayor pro tem before the election....The Employee Benefit Research Institute named Nevin Adams director of education and external relations and co-director of its Center for Research on Retirement Income. Adams was global editor-in-chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine and its website PLANSPONSOR.com.

Nov. 10

• Catalent Pharma Solutions, Inc. named Jonathan Arnold vice president and general manager of sterile technologies. Arnold was chief procurement officer and vice president of global supply chain at Patheon International....The National Association of Insurance Commissioners appointed Jim Woody chief financial officer. Woody was director at Sprint Nextel.

Nov. 9

• HealthTrans, a provider of pharmacy and health care management tools, named Nick Grujich executive vice president of business development, Don Houchins senior vice president of PBM business development and Maria McAfee senior vice president of labor market business development. Grujich was executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO) at Catalyst Health Solutions. Houchin was senior vice president of sales at LDIRx. McAfee was co-founder, COO and chief business development pfficer at Apokalyyis, Inc.

Nov. 8

• Humana Inc. named Bruce Broussard president, effective next month. He is currently CEO of McKesson Specialty Health. Humana said its current CEO and chairman of the board, Michael McCallister will retire in the next 12 to 18 months and that Broussard would take over the top position at that time....DaVinci Consulting Group, LLC appointed Ross Bagshaw principal. Bagshaw was executive vice president of Transamerica Life Insurance Company.

Nov. 7

• The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health Plan named Sherri Manning vice president of marketing and communications. She was vice president for marketing communications, brand and advertising at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida....UnitedHealth Group hired Joe Dixon as deputy general counsel for government and internal investigations. He formerly was an assistant attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota and led the white-collar crime division there for several years.

Nov. 4

• Anavex Life Sciences Corp. named George Tidmarsh, M.D., director and acting executive director. Tidmarsh is a consultant for biopharmaceutical companies and is working with the Citizen’s Oncology Foundation and Solana Therapeutics....The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) promoted Mary Ann Burford to principal advisor to Board President Rob Feckner. Burford was a top manager in the CalPERS Customer Service Outreach Division.

Nov. 3

• The FDA named Eric Perakslis chief information officer (CIO) and chief scientist of informatics. Perakslis was senior vice president and CIO of research and development, and the head of informatics for Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical....The American College of Emergency Physicians appointed David Seaberg, M.D., president. Seaberg is an emergency physician in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Nov. 2

• Aprexis Health Solutions named Peyton Marshall acting chief financial officer and Dan Schwendler senior vice president of sales and marketing. Marshall was a director and consultant to private life sciences and software companies. Schwendler was director of North American sales at Vertek....Dominion Dental appointed Charles Brody vice president of business development. Brody was director of ancillary plans and business development at Premera Blue Cross.

Nov. 1

• Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. named Alessandro Baldi vice president and general manager. Before joining Protea, he conducted research in natural products chemistry, and founded a consulting firm that worked with large pharma and energy companies in Europe and the Middle East....The Blackstone Group appointed Denis Fabre senior managing director. Fabre was managing director of health care investment banking at UBS Investment Bank.

Oct. 31

• Angela Hult was promoted to director of corporate philanthropy for Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon. She previously oversaw all of The Regence Group’s media relations efforts....The Washington, D.C.-based Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute appointed Anne Beal, M.D., chief operating officer. She had been serving as president of the Aetna Foundation.

Oct. 28

• BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee promoted Ginger Pettway to director of brand strategy and new media. Pettway was advertising manager....Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. named John Butler CEO. He replaces Michael Griffith, who has assumed the role of chief scientific officer in addition to president. Butler was president of Genzyme Corp.'s rare genetic diseases business.

Oct. 27

• Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, named Michael Allen senior vice president of sales and marketing. He replaces Jeff Raser, who resigned to pursue other interests. Allen was senior vice president of commercial operations at ProteoGenix, Inc....MED3OOO appointed Jeffery Flocken market leader and executive vice president of accountable care and hospital services. Flocken was senior vice president of the California and Nebraska region for Tenet Healthcare.

Oct. 26

• Cogent HMG named Kent McMackin senior vice president of physician services. McMackin was vice president of HCA physician services, hospital-based programs and physician strategic sourcing....Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty hired Michelle Robleto as deputy insurance commissioner for life and health insurance. Robleto was the director of the division of state group insurance for the Florida Department of Management Services.

Oct. 25

• Varian Medical Systems promoted Dow Wilson to chief operating officer. Wilson was executive vice president....Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. appointed Laca Wong-Hammond to head of Healthcare Real Estate. Wong-Hammond was vice president at Merrill Lynch & Co., before joining Morgan Keegan in 2006.

Oct. 24

• Cigna Corp. named Alan Muney, M.D., its new chief medical officer. Muney was senior vice president of total health and network. He replaces Jeffrey Kang, M.D., who left to join Walgreen Co. as senior vice president of health and wellness services and solutions…. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee promoted Ginger Pettway to director of brand strategy and new media. She previously was its advertising manager.

Oct. 21

• The American College of Physician Executives named Peter Angood, M.D., CEO. Angood was president and CEO of PBA Solutions Insight....ResCare, Inc. appointed Rick Purdy chief human resources officer. Purdy was vice president of human resources corporate functions at Kimberly-Clark in Dallas.

Oct. 20

• NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. named David Stroman senior vice president of ophthalmic drug development. Stroman was head of Alcon's therapeutic unit for anti-infectives....Lockton, a large privately held insurance broker, appointed Pam Kail account executive. Kail was vice president and senior client manager at Willis.

Oct. 19

• Biogen Idec promoted Tony Kingsley to executive vice president of global commercial operations. Kingsley was senior vice president of U.S. commercial operations....BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee named Tony Hullender senior vice president and general counsel. Hullender was associate general counsel.

Oct. 18

• The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, which is part of NIH, named Darryl Zeldin, M.D., scientific director, effective Oct. 23. Zeldin was principal investigator at Environmental Cardiopulmonary Disease Group....Galena Biopharma, Inc. hired Hana Moran as vice president, regulatory affairs and compliance. Moran was managing director of global regulatory strategy and compliance at Moran Advisors, LLC.

Oct. 17

• Magellan Health Services Inc. named Kim Mageau president of Magellan Pharmacy Solutions. Mageau was senior vice president for drug benefit management operations....Fletcher Allen Health Care, a 419-bed hospital in Burlington, Vt., promoted Stephen Leffler, M.D., to chief medical officer. Leffler was the medical director for the emergency department and president of the medical staff.

Oct. 14

• The National Comprehensive Cancer Network named Kimary Kulig vice president of clinical and translational outcomes research. Kulig was senior director at Pfizer....One Call Medical, Inc. appointed John Stanzi executive vice president of strategy. Stanzi was senior vice president at York Risk Services Group.

Oct. 13

• Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company, named Brian Holzer executive director of brand management. Holzer was director of strategy and operations for the NEUPOGEN/Neulasta franchise at Amgen....Pan-American Life Insurance Group appointed Scott Reitan senior vice president of administration and IT. Reitan has been a consultant to the company for the past 18 months

Oct. 12

• Rick Schum was named president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming, replacing Tim Crilly, who retired after 44 years with the company. Schum was executive vice president and chief operating officer....SCAN Health Plan promoted Emily Arison to vice president of human resources. Arison was director of human resources.

Oct. 11

• The Medicare Rights Center promoted Doug Goggin-Callahan, Esq., to director of education. Goggin-Callahan was client services and program counsel at the center. He will also continue as New York State policy director....The National Quality Forum named Rosemary Kennedy vice president for health information technology. Kennedy was chief nursing informatics officer at Siemens Medical Solutions.

Oct. 10

• BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina named Steven Smith president of CGS Administrators LLC, a Blues subsidiary in Nashville, Tenn. Smith was a senior director in the company's private insurance unit for large employer groups....Geron Corp. appointed John Scarlett, M.D., CEO. Scarlett was president and CEO at Proteolix.

Oct. 7

• Lockton, a large privately held insurance broker, named Hal Kinsey senior vice president and director of health care. Kinsey was senior vice president at Alliant Insurance Services....Joseph Cappiello has been appointed chief operating officer of Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program. Cappiello was vice president of field operations at The Joint Commission.

Oct. 6

• The Segal Company named Roy Wilkinson vice president and benefits consultant in the West Region. Wilkinson was president at WBC, Inc., a Baltimore-based pharmacy benefit consulting firm....Assurant, Inc. promoted Richard Lauria to senior vice president and chief corporate actuary. Lauria was vice president and senior actuary.

Oct. 5

• Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions named Jack Bush vice president of marketing for its Healthcare Analytics business. Bush was brand manager of business intelligence at Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals.... MedAptus appointed Ryan Secan, M.D., chief medical officer. He is a practicing hospitalist at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass. Secan was medical director of hospitalist programs at Lowell General Hospital Medical Group and Anna Jaques Hospital, both in Massachusetts.

Oct. 4

• Tokai Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., named Martin Williams CEO. Williams was chief business officer at Dicerna Pharmaceuticals Inc....Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon promoted Don Antonucci to interim president. Antonucci was vice president of sales.

Oct. 3

• Catalent Pharma Solutions named Paul Jenkins global vice president of business development for Zydis Technology. Jenkins was CEO of Adjuvantix, a U.K.-based biotechnology company....The American Academy of Physician Assistants appointed Jennifer Dorn CEO, effective Oct. 31. Dorn was senior fellow at Potomac Research Group.