CSuite Shuffle
Tracking Healthcare Executive Moves

🏁 Intro

Another week, another wave of big moves across the healthcare C-suite.
From CEOs stepping down to hospitals naming their first-ever medical wellness officers, this week’s shuffle is packed.

💼 CEO seats are busy (again).
🧠 Strategy roles are on the rise.
💰 And some familiar CFOs are hanging it up.

Let’s dive in.

🌟 Spotlight Shuffle

Liz Dunne 🔗
Retiring CEO, PeaceHealth
Effective January 3

Sarah Ness 🔗
Named incoming CEO, PeaceHealth
Previously: EVP, CAO PeaceHealth

Ketul Patel 🔗
Named President and CEO, Wellstar Health System
Previously: CEO, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, President CommonSpirit Pacific Northwest region

🧠 CEO Moves

John Nickens 🔗
CEO, Phoenix Children’s
Previously: CEO University Medical Center & LCMC Health President of Hospital Services

Sheila Rankin 🔗
CEO, AdventHealth Winter Park
Previously: CEO, AdventHealth Kissimmee

Aimee Keller-Pickford 🔗
CEO, AdventHealth Winter Garden
Previously: VP and COO, AdventHealth Altamonte Springs

Cliff Wilson 🔗
Market President & CEO, Lovelace Health System
Previously: CEO Georgetown Community Hospital and Market President Lifepoint Health

Brian Roland 🔗
CEO, Elkview General Hospital
Previously: CEO, Miners Colfax Medical Center

Wyatt Chocklett
CEO, TriStar Horizon Medical Center- HCA Healthcare
Previously: COO, HCA Mission Hospital

Sony Sidhu, DNP 🔗
CEO, Madera Community Hospital (California)
Previously: CEO, Central Valley Specialty Hospital

Wyatt Brieser 🔗
CEO, Hammond-Henry Hospital
Previously: VP Operations, Hammond-Henry Hospital

Dave Ressler
Retiring CEO, Aspen Valley Health
Effective 2026

Jeff St. Clair
Retiring CEO, Springhill Medical Center
17 Years as CEO

Mary Beckerle, PhD 🔗
Stepping down as CEO, Huntsman Cancer Institute- University Utah Health
Served as CEO since 2006

Brad Cairns, PhD 🔗
Named CEO, Huntsman Cancer Institute- University Utah Health
Currently: Head of Academic Affairs, Huntsman Cancer Institute

Paari Gopalakrishnan, MD 🔗
Appointed CEO, GBMC HealthCare
Currently: President and COO, Kent Hospital

William Giles 🔗
Appointed CEO, Magnolia Regional Medical Center
Served as CEO, Valley View

Amy Blasing 🔗
Appointed President, Intermountain Health St. Joseph Hospital
Currently: CEO Lovelace Westside Hospital & Lovelace Women’s Hospital

Chris Nelson 🔗
President, Catholic Health St. Catherine of Siena Hospital
Previously: President, Catholic Health St. Joseph Hospital

Anne Gunther🔗
CEO, Pomerene Hospital
Previously: President, Aultman Hospital

💰 CFO Moves

Emily Emery-Shea 🔗
Named CFO, Mee Memorial Healthcare System
Previously: CFO, Helen Newberry Joy Hospital

Melissa Mendoza 🔗
Named CFO, Prime Healthcare: Knapp Medical Center
Previously: CFO & Chief Staffing Officer, HCA Houston Medical Center

Sean Barden 🔗
Retiring EVP & CFO, Mary Washington Healthcare
17 years in the role

Thomas Mathews 🔗
Named EVP & CFO, Mary Washington Healthcare
Previously: Regional CFO, UnityPoint Health

Chris Clark 🔗
Assistant CFO, HCA- Henrico, Parham and Retreat Doctors’ Hospital
Previously: Sr. Financial Analyst, Halifax Health

Richard Riter🔗
Named CFO, Adventist Health- North Coast
Previously: National Leader of Rev Cycle, Moss Adams

Patty West
Retiring Executive CFO, The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser)

🩺 Chief Medical + Clinical

Joseph Everette 🔗
CNO, HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital
Previously: CNO, Oviedo Medical Center

Lia Lansky 🔗
Chief Wellbeing Officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care BestHealth Employee Program
Currently: System Director Wellbeing, Baptist Memorial Health Care

Jake Lancaster, MD 🔗
CMO, Baptist Memorial Health Care BestHealth Employee Program
Currently: CMO, Baptist Medical Group

Ezz-Eldin Moukamal, MD🔗
Named Chief Quality Officer, Allegheny Health Network
Previously: CMO, AHN Forbes Hospital & interim CQO

Elizabeth McNulty 🔗
CNO, Catholic Health St. Catherine of Siena Hospital
Previously: VP Nursing Administration, Catholic Health St. Catherine of Siena Hospital 

Jose Lopez, MD🔗
Expanded role, COO, Holy Cross Health
Will continue role as CMO, Holy Cross Health

Theresa Kloewer 🔗
CNO, MountainView Hospital
Previously: CNO, HCA Healthcare Summerville Medical Center

Paul Minardi, MD 🔗 
EVP, Enterprise Clinical Integration and Growth, Kaiser Permanente
Previously: EVP, CEO, KP Medical Foundation

🧑‍💻 Strategy + Tech

Ron Belfont 🔗
Interim VP and CIO, Bayhealth
Currently: Chief Information Security Officer, Bayhealth

George Hamilton🔗
Chief Strategy Officer, Stanford Children’s
Previously: Chief Strategy and Development Officer, Athenahealth

Rachel Wasserstrom🔗
Named Chief Strategy Officer, Emerson Health
Previously: CAO, Tufts Medical Center' Faculty Practice

🧩 Operations Moves

Duke Walker 🔗 
COO, Kootenai Health
Previously: VP Ops., Lee Health

Lou Baverso 🔗
Named COO, Allegheny Health Network & President AHN Hospitals
Previously: COO, University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System

🧩 Other Moves

Shannon Duval 🔗
Chief Philanthropy Officer, Advocate Health
Previously: Global Chief Development Officer –Ronald McDonald House Charities

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