Essentia Health in Duluth, Minn., has named Dr. Devendranath Reddy Mannuru as chief medical officer of its West market, which includes the health system’s operations in Western Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota.
Dr. Mannuru joins Essentia Health from Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, where he spent 12 years as a hospitalist. For the past five years, he also served as core faculty and associate program director of Sanford’s internal medicine residency program in Fargo, N.D., according to an April 3 news release.
In addition to his responsibilities as CMO, Dr. Mannuru will practice as a hospitalist at Essentia Health-Fargo, and maintain his role as a clinical associate professor at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
He succeeds Richard Vetter, MD, who served as CMO of Essentia Health-West for the past six years.
