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Cardinal Health board member steps down

After a little more than a year on the job, a Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) board member is stepping down for health reasons. Dr. James Mongan’s resignation comes “due to health-related reasons,” and “is not the result of any disagreement with [Cardinal] on any matter relating to the [its] operations, policies or practices,” according to a […]

After a little more than a year on the job, a Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) board member is stepping down for health reasons.

Dr. James Mongan’s resignation comes “due to health-related reasons,” and “is not the result of any disagreement with [Cardinal] on any matter relating to the [its] operations, policies or practices,” according to a regulatory filing.

Mongan joined Cardinal’s board in January 2010. Mongan retired in 2009 from his post as CEO of Boston’s prominent Partners HealthCare System, a role he’d held since 2003. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital founded Partners.

Modern Healthcare named Mongan as the No. 1 most powerful physician-executive in 2008. He’d been ranked in the top 10 since 2004.

He was a member of the audit committee of Cardinal’s board.