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Oliver Keown, founder and former managing partner of Intuitive Ventures, started Cleo Surgical and will serve as CEO. https://www.cleosurgical.com/

Brent Dover, former CEO of Kalderos, became CEO of Carta Healthcare, succeeding former CEO Matt Hollingsworth. https://www.carta.healthcare/

Michael Muchnicki, a former UnitedHealth Group and Cigna exec, became CEO of Physician360. https://axios.link/3Nq3TNc

Lisa Alderson, former CEO of Genome Medical, joined Adela as CEO. https://axios.link/3Rrc39p

Sara Crate, former chief commercial officer at DispatchHealth, became CEO of Homebase Medical. https://www.homebasemedical.com/

Nassim Usman, former CEO at Catalyst Biosciences, joined Totus Medicines as CEO. https://www.totusmedicines.com/

Michael Martin, former VP of shopping at YouTube, joined Strava as CEO. https://axios.link/3v5vLjA

Jia Jia Ye, former CEO of Springtide Child Development, became COO of Sollis Health. https://sollishealth.com/

Jamie McCarthy, former VP of market development at Phreesia, joined Hello Heart as CFO. https://www.helloheart.com/

Sarah Jones, former VP of client success at Firefly Health, joined B.Well as chief outcomes officer. https://axios.link/41poPtx

Kim Atkinson, former SVP of communications at SmileDirectClub, joined Honor as chief communications officer. https://www.honorcare.com/

Scott Dewey, former corporate VP of managed care at Community Health Systems, joined PayrHealth as chief managed care officer. https://payrhealth.com

Karandeep Singh, former associate professor at the University of Michigan, joined UC San Diego Health as its first chief health AI officer. https://axios.link/3v63HfE

Sam Cannizzaro, formerly with Elevate Healthcare Marketing, joined Deerfield Agency as chief creative officer. https://axios.link/3TIS60v

Steven Chin, currently at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles as well as the NICU Medical Director at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, was named chief clinical officer at Astarte Medical. https://www.astartemedical.com/

Jeremy Leventhal, former AVP of product at Hinge Health, joined Employer Direct Healthcare (EDHC) as chief product officer. Also at EDHC, Nicki Macmanus, former VP and GM of kidney care at CVS Health, joined as SVP and GM of cancer care. https://www.edhc.com/

At Point32Health, the parent company of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, Susan Kee was named chief legal officer, Katie Catlender was named COO, and Urcel Fields was named president of government markets. https://www.point32health.org/

Ellen Rudy, former head of research at Papa, joined Wellthy as head of population health. https://www.wellthy.com/

Andrew Davies, former CEO of ICAS World, became head of international at Lyra Health. https://www.lyrahealth.com/

Tim Kelly, former CCO at Carrot Fertility, joined Employer Direct Healthcare as head of channel partnerships. https://www.get-carrot.com/

Michele Calhoun, former global CRO of pregnancy and parenting at Everyday Health, joined GoodRx as head of consumer health. https://www.goodrx.com/

Jason Novak, former partner at Haynes and Boone, joined Norton Rose Fulbright as partner and head of its SF office focused on emerging technologies in health care, food and life sciences. https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/

Lisa Suennen, former president of Canary Medical, joined AHA Ventures as managing partner. https://www.heart.org/en/about-us

Sara Nayeem, a former partner at NEA, joined Patient Square Capital portfolio company Enavate Sciences as EVP of investments. https://enavatesciences.com/

Jay Bradner, former physician-scientist at Novartis, joined Amgen as EVP of R&D. https://axios.link/3GIT5WL

Michelle Marsh, former VP of client success at Jasper Health, joined Zipari as SVP of sales and marketing. https://zipari.com/

Christopher Boone, former VP and global head of health economics and outcomes research at AbbVie, joined Oracle as group VP of research services for the life sciences. https://www.oracle.com/

Manar Bustami, former head of commercial strategy at Accorded, joined Collective Health as VP of strategic partnerships. https://collectivehealth.com/

Lisa Morella, former senior director of data analytics at Mass General Brigham, joined CodaMetrix as VP of data and analytics. https://www.codametrix.com/

Mitch Steffens, former investment associate at Baird, joined Palm Tree as VP of investment banking helping to lead the firm's health care vertical. https://axios.link/41pbBNB

Bill Berry joined Constellation as GM of life sciences and health care. https://axios.link/482ILEu

Cory Wyman, former senior marketing analyst at Geisinger, joined SimpliFed as marketing manager. https://www.simplifed.com/

Mehran Ahmed, formerly managing director with Webster Equity Partners joined InTandem Capital Partners as a partner. www.intandemcapital.com

Rachel Alexander joined Mintz as an attorney focused on managed care, payer matters, and pharmacy benefit and drug pricing issues. https://axios.link/3sUQO7L

Jerod Waldman, former senior technical product manager at Sana, joined Spring Health as senior product manager. https://www.springhealth.com/

Navtej Bhullar, former managing director at Deutsche Bank, joined JPMorgan as managing director. https://www.jpmorganchase.com/

Ryan Kaeding, former managing director of med tech investment banking at Raymond James, joined Trinity Capital as a managing director of life sciences. www.trinitycap.com

Charles Newcomb, formerly with Signature Bank as a managing director, joined Citizens Private Bank as a managing director of the private equity finance group. https://www.citizensbank.com/private-banking/overview.aspx

Jason Novak, former partner at Haynes and Boone, joined Norton Rose Fulbright as the firm's San Francisco lead partner focused on IP and data rights within its digital health and precision medicine initiative, effective Jan. 1. https://axios.link/47Uw52Z

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Barbara Salami, former VP at Moderna, Gabriel Eichler, managing director of Oak Health Partners, Sean Khozin, senior partner at Brazen, and Gerry McDougall, former senior consulting partner at PwC, joined Atropos Health's life sciences advisory board. https://axios.link/47Y44XQ

Susan Nicholson, former VP of women's health at Johnson & Johnson, and Jessica Federer, former U.S. CEO of Huma, joined Aspivix's board of directors. www.aspivix.com

Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, joined the board of Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC). https://axios.link/3RiXp3X

Paul Martino, co-founder of VillageMD, joined Forge Health as chair of the board. https://axios.link/46Zyb04

Carol Vallone, member of the board of trustees at Mass General Brigham and advisory director at Berkshire Partners, joined Hightop Health as an independent board director. https://axios.link/4854EDR

Keith Errey, founder of Isansys, was appointed strategic adviser of XRP Healthcare. https://axios.link/3S0DCXx

Kelly Kennedy, former CFO of the Honest Company, was appointed to the board of directors at GoodRx (Nasdaq: GDRX). https://goodrx.com/

The Peterson Health Technology Institute named the following people to its advisory board: Johns Hopkins distinguished professor of health policy Melinda Buntin; Vanna Health executive chair Thomas Insel; Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) advisory partner Margaret McKenna; Memorial Sloan Kettering EVP Anaeze Offodile II; a16z venture partner William Shrank; University of Potsdam incoming digital health chair Ariel Stern; and AARP Services chief medical officer Charlotte Yeh. https://phti.com/

🗳️ Elections and appointments

Danielle O'Rourke was promoted from COO to CEO of Ludi. https://ludiinc.com/

Brooke Bartholomay Quinn was promoted from chief customer officer to COO at Carrot Fertility. https://www.get-carrot.com/

Gretchen Zimmermann was promoted from senior director of cardiometabolic care to VP of clinical strategy at Vida Health. https://www.vida.com/

John Asalone was promoted from COO to CEO of Amino Health, succeeding founder David Vivero, who transitioned to chair. https://axios.link/3v4mB6B

Alyssa Reisner was promoted from lead director to partner and executive director at CVS Health Ventures. https://www.cvshealth.com/about/ventures.html

Aaron Fournier was promoted to president of Soaak Digital, a division of Soaak Technologies, from his previous role as COO. https://axios.link/48uFtLf

Alexander Despo was promoted to director, investment banking, health care technology at Union Square Advisors, from his previous role of VP. https://www.usadvisors.com/

https://www.cvshealth.com/about/ventures.html

📢 Promotions

As AI becomes more prevalent in health care settings, more companies are committing to the Biden administration's protections intended to ensure privacy and security.

In December, CVS became one of the 28 health care companies to adopt voluntary safeguards. 

📰 In the news

Welcome to the first edition of 2024! Axios Pro Deals research associate Natalie Breymeyer here with your monthly recap of who's working where now.

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January 06, 2024

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