In the most sweeping moves in years, several leadership changes were recently announced at healthcare-related institutions within the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n
After six years, Rod Hanners stepped down on Sept. 24 from his post as chief executive of Keck Medicine of USC, which comprises all of USC\u2019s community-oriented healthcare provider programs, including Keck Medical Center, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Verdugo Hills Hospital, Arcadia Hospital and more than 100 clinics in Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Tulare and Ventura counties as well as Las Vegas. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs CEO, Rod helped strengthen the quality of care we provide, elevate the reputation of our health system in Los Angeles and beyond, and extend USC\u2019s care into more communities, including new locations in Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley,\u201d USC President Beong-Soo Kim wrote in a letter to the university community.<\/p>\n
In his own post on his departure, Hanners praised the healthcare teams at Keck Medicine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI take with me memories of our accomplishments that have advanced the exceptional care we provide and helped both our patients and staff members face some of the worst challenges of their lives,\u201d Hanners wrote in his post.<\/p>\n
Extensive hospital background <\/p>\n
Neither Kim nor Hanners indicated what Hanners will do next.<\/p>\n
Steven Shapiro, USC\u2019s senior vice president for health affairs, has taken Hanners\u2019 place. Before coming to USC in 2021, Shapiro served as president of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and its 40-plus hospital facilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy combining Steve\u2019s direct operational responsibility over Keck Medicine of USC with his continued oversight of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, we can move and innovate even more quickly to extend our renowned clinical care and research throughout the region,\u201d Kim wrote.<\/p>\n
In addition, Marty Sargeant, the chief executive of Keck Medical Center of USC, has added to his portfolio the role of chief operating officer of Keck Medicine.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, changes were also announced on the academic side.<\/p>\n
Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Carolyn Meltzer has stepped down to become president of the Radiological Society of North America. Vassilios Papadopoulos has stepped in as interim dean while retaining his post as dean of the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the most sweeping moves in years, several leadership changes were recently announced at healthcare-related institutions within the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94623,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-493749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-keck-medicine-of-usc","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}