Dr. Schmidt will lead medical staff functions, quality and safety, and peer review as chief medical officer. He joins Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine from Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine, where he spent 20 years a practicing clinician and associate professor of emergency medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the immediate past chief of staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Loyola Medicine is a three-hospital system and is a member of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health.