What You Should Know: - UCM Digital Health, a digital health and telehealth provider, including a 24/7 emergency medicine triage, treatment, and navigation service, announced Rondi Rabuse as its newest president and chief operations officer. - With over three decades of experience in the healthcare field, Rabuse will help drive and accelerate UCM’s strategic growth plans, further enhancing UCM’s mission to improve the patient experience by removing barriers to access and improving
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Digital Health Hires
Exec Hires: ModMed Appoints Jody Beaverson as Chief People Officer
What You Should Know: - Practice-technology leader ModMed appointed Jody Beaverson as its Chief People Officer and will further commit the company to its people as it grows in the healthcare specialty-specific software space. - As ModMed’s chief people officer, Ms. Beaverson will be a central member of the executive leadership team and she will have responsibility for all aspects of the working experience of ModMed’s employees, including using her strategic leadership skills to champion
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Exec Hires: Former CVS Health Leader Joins Virgin Pulse as Chief Medical Officer
What You Should Know: - Virgin Pulse, a global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company, announced that Jeffrey Jacques, MD, has joined the company as Chief Medical Officer. - As chief medical officer at Virgin Pulse, Dr. Jacques will advance the company’s clinical strategy, providing insight and guidance to product and commercial teams. He will also lead the company’s Science Advisory Board, which helps ensure that Virgin Pulse’s technology and the experiences it supports
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Exec Hires: Icario Appoints Marc Willard as Chief Executive Officer
What You Should Know: - Icario, the healthcare industry’s largest health action company has appointed Marc Willard as its new CEO. - Willard will also join Icario’s Board of Directors and Steve Wigginton, Icario’s founding CEO, will remain an investor in and advisor to the company. Marc Willard Bio/Background Having spent the last three decades leading and building healthcare technology businesses, Willard brings highly relevant experiences and industry relationships to his new
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Cognoa Appoints Former CMO, Dr. Sharief Taraman as CEO
What You Should Know: - Cognoa, a pediatric behavioral health company appoints Dr. Sharief Taraman as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Taraman previously served as Cognoa’s Chief Medical Officer and brings nearly two decades of clinical specialization in neurodevelopmental conditions, clinical informatics, and business acumen. - Dr. Taraman served as the company’s Chief Medical Officer since 2017, leading clinical evidence generation and regulatory milestones of Canvas Dx and those resulting
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CVS Health’s Former Chief Strategy Officer Joins VC Firm, LRVHealth
What You Should Know: - LRVHealth, the inside healthcare venture capital platform, announced that Josh Flum joined the firm as a managing partner. Prior to joining LRV Health, Flum served as Chief Strategy Officer and Business Developer Officer at CVS Health. - Flum joins a diverse team of healthcare operators, entrepreneurs, investors and insiders leading healthcare innovation and transformation alongside a network of strategic limited partners that touches half of all
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COTA Appoints Noel Alaka as VP of Life Sciences
What You Should Know: Today, oncology real-world data analytics company COTA announced the appointment of Noel Alaka as Vice President of Life Sciences. As VP of Life Sciences, Alaka will be responsible for helping grow and build partnerships with leading life sciences companies that are looking to adopt real-world data and real-world evidence to help accelerate innovation in treatments for patients facing cancer. Noel Alaka Bio/Background A benchtop
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Transcarent Appoints Peter Bridges as New Chief Commercial Officer
What You Should Know: - Transcarent, a new, different, and better health and care experience company for employees of self-insured employers and their families appoints Peter Bridges as its new Chief Commercial Officer. - As Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Bridges will lead Transcarent’s sales, channel partnerships, provider relations, and consultant relations teams as Transcarent continues its rapid market expansion with the country’s most innovative self-insured employers and health
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Divurgent Appoints Ed Marx as New CEO
What You Should Know: - Divurgent, a healthcare IT consulting company, today announced it has appointed Ed Marx, a renowned leader with more than 30 years of experience, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). - In addition, Colin Konschak, company founder and CEO since 2007, will move to a new role as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Ed Marx Background Ed Marx is an influential, veteran IT leader with deep experience in healthcare. He was the former Chief
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COTA Promotes Miruna Sasu to President and CEO
What You Should Know: - COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company, announced today that Miruna Sasu, Ph.D., MBA, has been appointed president and chief executive officer. - Since April 2021 when she was hired as the company’s chief strategy officer, Miruna has helped spearhead a series of research collaborations focused on investigating racial disparities in cancer care and the drug development process, including partnerships with the University of Chicago
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