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Hires
Centivo, a health plan that sells to self-funded employers, hired Jim McNary as its president and COO. He joins Centivo from healthcare revenue cycle management company Availity, where he also held the COO role. Before that, McNary served as CEO of Consortium Health Plans and was a senior partner at Mercer.
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Medtronic appointed Thierry Piéton as its new CFO. Piéton — who will join Medtronic in March — currently serves as CFO of French automobile manufacturer Renault Group. Before that, he spent about 15 years in leadership roles at GE and GE Healthcare. Piéton’s hiring fills an opening left by Medtronic’s former CFO, Karen Parkhill, who left the company after eight years in the role.
Care navigation company Personify Health welcomed Pete McCabe as its new CEO. He is replacing Chris Michalak, who is transitioning to the role of executive chairman. McCabe joins the company from Datavant, where he also served as CEO. Prior to that, he was CEO of Ciox Health, and he spent nearly 20 years in various executive positions at GE.
Another care navigation company named a new CEO as well — Quantum Health hired Dayne Williams to the CEO role. He replaces Zane Burke, who stepped down from the role to focus on his mother’s health journey. Williams previously served as CEO of benefits management platform PlanSource — and he also held the CEO role at human resources outsourcing firm CoAdvantage and recruitment process outsourcing company ZeroChaos.
India-based healthcare AI startup Qure.ai appointed Jim Mercadante as its new chief commercial officer. Mercadante, who is based in New York, comes to the company from RapidAI, where he served as senior vice president of global growth and marketing. Before that, he held various leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, GE and Terumo.
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Sunbird Bio — which develops diagnostic tests for the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease — welcomed Richard Batrla as its chief medical officer. He joins the company from Eisai, where he most recently served as head of U.S. medical affairs. Before Elsai, Batrla held leadership positions at Roche, Novartis and Bayer.
Symplr, which provides healthcare operations software, appointed Susan Grant as its chief clinical officer. Grant is a veteran leader in the health system world — she has held C-suite roles at Wellstar Health System, Beaumont Health, Emory Healthcare, University of Washington Medical Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Promotions
EHR provider athenahealth promoted two leaders. The company named Chris Kondrat as its new chief customer officer and Michael Palantoni as its new chief strategy and corporate development officer. Kondrat joined athenahealth in 2016 as a vice president and general manager. Before that, he served in leadership roles at KPMG and Beacon Partners. As for Palantoni, he joined athenahealth in 2012 as product innovation manager. Previously, he worked at Deloitte as a consultant.
Eyenuk, a company that makes technology for eye screenings, appointed Gaurav Agarwal as its new CEO. He joined the company in 2023, having most recently served as its head of product and customer success. Before Eyenuk, he held leadership roles at various tech companies, such as Avanade, ServiceNow and Yardi Systems.
Danish drugmaker Genmab named Leslie Amendola as its new general manager for the U.S. She joined Genmab in 2021 as vice president of U.S. sales and marketing. Previously, she spent nearly two decades in various leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson and Janssen.
Michigan-based payer Priority Health appointed Carrie Kincaid to oversee the organization’s government markets. She has worked at the company for 19 years.
Layoffs
Pharmaceutical company Biogen is laying off an undisclosed number of employees in its research workforce. The news came as Biogen’s stock prices reached a five-year low.
Cleveland Clinic plans to lay off 114 employees in administrative management roles. The job cuts are a result of the “financial challenges facing the healthcare industry,” the health system said.
Philadelphia-based health system Jefferson Health will lay off 171 workers in March. The layoffs “relate to the outsourcing of back-office jobs,” according to a filing Jefferson made with the state of Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley Health Network — which merged with Jefferson last year to create a 32-hospital system — will lay off about 100 employees as well.
Another Pennsylvania-based health system, Main Line Health, is eliminating about 200 administrative positions. The affected roles span various departments, including finance, IT and human resources. Main Line Health CEO Jack Lynch told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the decision is a result of a few financial factors — mainly rising levels of payer denials and insufficient payment increases from Medicaid and Medicare.