Executive Moves

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. 

OhioHealth appointed Cherie Smith, PhD, RN, president of its Dublin Methodist Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital in Delaware, effective March 18. 

New Orleans-based LCMC Health has named Jackie Josing vice president of middle revenue cycle, according to a post on her LinkedIn page. 

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that have promoted CFOs to the chief executive role in 2024: 

Eugene Livar, MD, is Arizona's inaugural "chief heat officer" — and the first statewide heat executive in the nation.

Tammy Jackson, BSN, RN, has been named vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer of SSM Health in Southern Illinois — a division of the St. Louis-based system that includes two regional hospitals in Southern Illinois. 

Sherita Golden, MD, has stepped down as vice president and chief diversity officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine.