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Executive Moves

Taft Parsons III, MD, is leaving his role as CVS Health’s chief psychiatric officer. “Executives decide to try something different, and organizational structures and jobs change,” he said Sept. 11 on LinkedIn. “I’ve benefited from those changes more often than…

Gregory Ammon was appointed president of Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates, Ill., effective Sept. 13. Mr. Ammon has served as the hospital’s COO since 2023, overseeing growth strategies, clinical programming and patient experience, according to a…

New York City-based NYU Langone Health selected William Gordon Frankle, MD, to lead the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He will take over as chair in September.  Dr. Frankle most recently held three roles at NYU…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Centerstone named Lindsay Bennett as its new chief revenue officer. Ms. Bennett has more than two decades of healthcare finance and operations experience, with a background in revenue cycle management, financial planning and analysis, business intelligence, operational transformation,…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Mental Health Cooperative named Andrea Westerfield CEO, effective Sept. 8. Ms. Westerfield will return to the organization after previously serving in senior leadership roles there, including as COO, according to an Aug. 21 news release shared with Becker’s.…

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Northwell’s Northern Westchester Hospital, based in Mount Kisco, N.Y., named Jason Andrus, MD, as chair of psychiatry.  Dr. Andrus will oversee inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services, focusing on clinical quality, programmatic growth and an academic environment dedicated to evidence-based practices,…

The National Alliance on Mental Illness named Christine Crawford, MD, chief medical officer.  Dr. Crawford first joined NAMI as associate medical director in 2020, according to an Aug. 17 news release from the organization.  In her new role, Dr. Crawford…

The University of Virginia School of Medicine named Nassima Ait-Daoud Tiouririne, MD, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. Dr. Ait-Daoud Tiouririne previously served as interim chair of the department, according to an Aug. 10 news release from…

Radiology Partners has named Matt Peterson president of RP Clinical Services and Krishna Nallamshetty, MD, chief operating officer of RP Clinical Services, effective July 20. Mr. Peterson will oversee strategy and execution across the organization’s national clinical services business, according to a…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health named Jonathan Posner, MD, system psychiatrist-in-chief and chair of its department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. He will assume the role Oct. 1.  Dr. Posner currently serves as executive vice president of the department of psychiatry…

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