{"id":238553,"date":"2026-07-08T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238553\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:13:12","slug":"ahns-chief-medical-officer-talks-breaking-glass-ceilings-in-medicine-personalities-of-pittsburgh-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238553\/","title":{"rendered":"AHN\u2019s chief medical officer talks breaking glass ceilings in medicine (Personalities of Pittsburgh) \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Bethany Casagranda is chief medical officer of Allegheny Health Network<\/a> and president of its Allegheny Clinic, AHN\u2019s physician organization that\u2019s one of the largest in the state. She\u2019s the senior clinical leader of AHN\u2019s medical staff of 2,500. Before she took over from Dr. Don Whiting, Casagranda had been chair of the health system\u2019s imaging network and she\u2019s a veteran musculoskeletal radiologist. She\u2019s also previously held roles that include radiology residency program director, MSK fellowship director and MSK division director. As CMO, she\u2019s playing a role in leading AHN\u2019s clinical transformation, with integrated efforts between AHN and parent Highmark Health to execute the healthcare system\u2019s \u201cLiving Health\u201d clinical model. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve broken a lot of glass ceilings, with your career in radiology, the other roles you\u2019ve had and now as chief medical officer. Do you think that\u2019s helped other women? I hope so. I haven\u2019t reached the end of the journey where I\u2019m not the first as of yet. I\u2019m going to be thrilled one day when I take a job and I\u2019m not the first woman who was in that space. When I came over to AHN in 2013, I was the first female division director of orthopedic imaging, and then the first female chair of radiology in Pittsburgh. And then a first president of the clinic and CMO role at AHN to be a female…There\u2019s a bittersweetness to being the first because there\u2019s a lot of pressure on people to be the first woman of something. But I also think that it\u2019s like the necessary path to allowing the space to be more welcoming and for it to be more natural to see women in the space. <\/p>\n

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