Executive Moves

Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Conn., has appointed Amer Zeidan, MD, as its inaugural chief of the division of hematologic malignancies. 

Susan Sedory, CEO of The American College of Emergency Physicians, will step down in June 2025, the organization announced March 8. She has held the position since 2020.

AdventHealth South Overland Park (Kan.), part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, has named Dallas Purkeypile president and CEO, effective March 18. 

Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H., has named Gina O'Brien, MD, its next chief medical officer. 

Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health appointed Jalana McCasland vice president of ambulatory services, effective April 14.

The Community Coalition to Save Beth Israel Hospital group that filed a lawsuit in February to prevent New York City-based Mount Sinai from closing its Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital has written a letter asking the court to deny the…

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has promoted James Laur to chief executive of intellectual property and health ventures.

Eric Conley, president of the South region for Froedtert ThedaCare Health, the newly combined 18-hospital system in Wisconsin formed by Froedtert Health and ThedaCare, and president of Wauwatosa, Wis.-based Froedtert Hospital, is resigning, effective in mid-April. 

Statesville, N.C.-based Iredell Health System has appointed Melanie Sleime assistant vice president of human resources.

Kofi Cash, DSc, has been named executive director of business operations at Mass General Brigham-McLean Hospital.