Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children's Health appointed Matthew Davis, MD, as executive vice president, enterprise physician-in-chief and chief scientific officer, effective Nov. 1.
Dr. Davis will oversee clinical and research activities and growth across Nemours Children's , which has two hospitals and more than 70 locations across Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.
He is currently chair of the pediatrics department and executive vice president and chief of community health transformation at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. In these roles, Dr. Davis worked with teams across Lurie Children’s to bring together community-engaged activities under one organizational structure, which became the Patrick M. Magoon Institute for Healthy Communities.
Dr. Davis has served in several other leadership roles, including division head of advanced general pediatrics and primary care; director of the Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research, Outreach and Advocacy Center; and president and chief research officer in the Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute.
He was also co-deputy director of the Northwestern University Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences; director of the fellowship program in health services and population health research; and associate medical director for accountable care of Lurie Children's Pediatric Partners Clinically Integrated Network.