On the Move...(Newsmakers)(University of Texas Medical Branch names David Callender president)(Provena Health appoints Steven Hunter)(Sierra Health Services promotes Marc Briggs)

Modern Healthcare, April, 2007

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS

The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, named David Callender, a head and neck surgeon, as its new president. Callender, 49, is currently associate vice chancellor and CEO of the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital System. He is also an adjunct professor of surgery at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Callender will replace John Stobo, also a physician, who announced last year that he would step down this August after 10 years leading the medical school. ... Robert D'Alessandri, vice president for health sciences at West Virginia University and president of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, has been named president and founding dean of the Medical College of Northeast Pennsylvania in...

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