Welcome to March’s On Rotation!
This month, we saw changes at Cigna, Blue Shield of California, and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health. Check out who’s moved around at health companies, insurers, hospitals, and more.
Here’s a noncomprehensive roundup of the past month’s career shifts.
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Ricky Bloomfield: Health device maker Oura, creator of the wearable Oura Ring, announced Bloomfield as its chief medical officer on March 20. He was most recently at Apple, where he served as clinical and health informatics lead and worked on the tech giant’s health records products.
Steve Eckert: Health tech consulting firm Nordic named Eckert as chief growth officer on March 18. He previously worked as chief technology officer at Cook Children’s Health Care System based in Fort Worth, Texas.
Brian Evanko: In a leadership shake-up on March 13, Evanko became president and COO of the Cigna Group. Evanko has worked with the company since 1998 and will also continue serving as CFO.
Amy Laster: Laster was tapped on March 6 as chief scientific officer at the Foundation Fighting Blindness, a nonprofit seeking treatment and cures for blinding eye diseases. A neuroscientist, Laster previously served as interim chief scientific officer and SVP of science strategy and awards at the foundation.
Neil Meltzer: After 12 years as president and CEO of LifeBridge Health and a total 37 years with the Baltimore, Maryland-based health system, Meltzer announced his retirement on March 13.
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Jane Mentz: Nutrition company Culina Health named Mentz as its COO on March 18—the “first C-suite hire since inception,” according to a release. Mentz has experience working with other health tech startups and spent six years with mental health company Quartet as it moved from Series A through D funding rounds.
Robert Parker: On March 10, Parker started as CEO of St. Francis-Emory Healthcare in Columbus, Georgia. He previously served as CEO of Kentucky-based Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital.
Lois Quam: The Blue Shield of California president and CEO stepped down after only two months in the CEO role on March 11. Mike Stuart, who was the health plan’s CFO, has stepped in as interim president and CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement.
Karyn Wallace: Wallace was appointed president and CEO of West Virginia University (WVU) Medicine’s Uniontown, Pennsylvania, hospital on March 3. She’s worked at the WVU Health System her whole career, starting as a nuclear medicine technologist and rising to VP of neuroscience at the research center WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.
Jinoos Yazdany: On March 19, Yazdany was tapped as the first-ever executive director of AI monitoring in clinical care at San Francisco-based UCSF Health. She’s also a practicing rheumatologist, chief of rheumatology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and the UCSF Alice Betts Endowed Professor of Medicine.