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Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD. President of Clinical Services and CMO of Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.). Dr. Perlin provides leadership for clinical services and works to improve performance at HCA’s numerous hospitals, outpatient centers and physician practices. Previously,…

Carlos Pellegrini, MD. CMO of UW Medicine and Vice President for Medical Affairs of the University of Washington (Seattle). Dr. Pellegrini became UW Medicine’s first CMO in December 2015 after serving as UW’s Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of…

Maria D. Padin, MD. CMO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.). Dr. Padin has served as CMO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center since November 2015. Prior to taking on that role, she worked at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord (N.H.), serving in the department…

Paryus Patel, MD. CMO of Prime Healthcare Division II (Ontario, Calif.). Dr. Patel is CMO of Prime Healthcare Division II, which includes Prime Healthcare’s hospitals located east of Nevada. He is also CMO of Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood,…

Thomas Owens, MD. Vice President for Medical Affairs and CMO of Duke University Health System (Durham, N.C.). Dr. Owens oversees medical affairs throughout Duke’s network. In addition to his CMO role, he serves as an associate professor of medicine and…

Patrick M. O’Shaughnessy, DO. Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and System CMO of Catholic Health Services (Rockville Centre, N.Y.). Dr. O’Shaughnessy was appointed senior vice president for medical affairs and CMO of Catholic Health Services in 2013. He previously…

Scott Nygaard, MD. CMO of Lee Memorial Health System (Fort Myers, Fla.). Dr. Nygaard was promoted to his current role last year after spending more than five years as CMO of physician services and network development for Lee Memorial. Dr.…

William Neff, MD. CMO of UCHealth (Aurora, Colo.). Dr. Neff became CMO of UCHealth in June 2012 and held the interim president and CEO role for just over a year while the system conducted a search for the permanent CEO,…

Robert Cherry, MD. Chief Medical and Quality Officer of UCLA Health (Los Angeles). UCLA Health System named Dr. Cherry chief medical and quality officer in 2014. Before joining UCLA, Dr. Cherry was the director of clinical and operational excellence at…

Judie Charlton, MD. CMO of WVU Medicine (Morgantown, W.Va.). Dr. Charlton became the primary physician executive in WVU Healthcare when she took on the CMO role in 2011. She joined the WVU department of ophthalmology in 1989 and became the…