Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs

This roundup is published monthly. It is meant to highlight some of healthcare’s recent hiring news and is not intended to be comprehensive. If you have news about an executive appointment, resignation or layoff that you would like to share for this roundup, please reach out to [email protected].

Hires

Agentic AI startup Ascertain welcomed Molly O’Neill as its chief commercial officer. She joined the organization from Aegis Ventures — which spun out Ascertain in 2022 in partnership with Northwell Holdings, the for-profit arm of Northwell Health. At Aegis, O’Neill served as chief strategic partnerships officer.

Children’s Hospital Association hired John Mikesic as its new chief supply chain officer. He has spent the past five years at University of Missouri Health Care, where he served as executive director of supply chain. Before that, he was a regional director at Premier.

CommonSpirit Health appointed Michael Browning as its next CFO. He will replace Daniel Morissette, who is retiring at the end of the year. Browning currently works as CFO of OhioHealth. He has also served in this role at Promedica, WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Parkview Health.

ConcertAI, which provides AI for life sciences companies, welcomed Shaalan Beg as its chief medical officer. He spent the past 14 years at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he served as a physician oncologist and professor.

Doctronic AI, which uses AI to reduce patients’ wait times, hired Byron Crowe as its chief medical officer. Crowe joined the startup from Solera Health, where he served in the same role.

Eli Lilly appointed Peter Marks as senior vice president of molecule discovery and head of infectious disease. He is the former head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. He joined the FDA in 2012 and left earlier this year when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told him he needed to resign or be fired.

HLM Venture Partners welcomed Ashley Tyrner-Dolce as an operating partner. She is the founder and former CEO of FarmboxRx, which was acquired by social health platform Pyx Health for $47.5 million in June.

Behavioral health company Lucet named Sean Martin as its new chief medical officer. He joined the company from insurer Oscar Health, where he most recently served as chief medical officer.

Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta appointed Mike Angelakos as its new CIO. He came to Piedmont by way of Geisinger, where he spent four years, also in the CIO role. Before that, he worked at Trinity Health for 17 years, ending his time there as vice president of service optimization.

Value-based kidney care company Strive Health hired Michele Paige as its new chief growth officer. In the past she has held executive roles at Elevance Health, Cigna and Evernorth.

Exits

NewYork-Presbyterian CEO Steven Corwin announced that he will step down on January 22 after 14 years in the role and more than 20 years at the health system. He will be succeeded by Brian Donley, NewYork-Presbyterian’s COO who joined the organization in 2023.

Cliff Deveny, CEO of Ohio-based health system Summa Health, said he will step down at the end of the year. Earlier this month, General Catalyst completed its acquisition of Summa. Daryl Tol — the president of General Catalyst’s Health Assurance Transformation Corporation — will take over as Summa’s interim CEO in the new year while the health system completes its executive search.

Layoffs

Roche subsidiary Genentech is laying off 118 workers at its headquarters in San Francisco, marking its third round of layoffs at its headquarters this year. The company let go of 143 employees in May and 87 employees in July.

Jefferson Health in Philadelphia said it will lay off 1% of its workforce, which is about 650 people. The health system cited financial headwinds as the reason for the job cuts.

Kaiser Permanente is laying off 216 employees in California, most of whom work in IT and food services roles. This is the fifth time this year Kaiser has conducted a round of layoffs affecting 35 or more employees.

Oregon-based PeaceHealth will reduce its workforce by 2.5%, which means the layoffs will impact roughly 400 workers. This is its second major round of layoffs this year — the health system cut 1% of its workforce in May.