Leadership

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health named Tina Freese Decker its new president and CEO, effective Sep. 1. Ms. Freese Decker joined Spectrum Health in 2002, and most recently served as executive vice president and COO.

Stephen Wright, senior vice president of group operations at Irving, Texas-based CHRISTUS Health, will retire in October after nearly 37 years with the health system, KALB reported.

Ritesh Shah, MD, received the IJS Innovation Trailblazer Award of Excellence for adopting the intellijoint HIP navigation system for hip surgery into his practice at Chicago-based Illinois Bone & Joint Institute, and in an ASC setting at the Morton Grove,…

The St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Carillon Surgery Center's ambulatory surgical team, registered nurses and others received the Daisy Award For Extraordinary Nurses.

Molly Buzdon, MD, joined the medical staff at Dover, N.H.-based Wentworth-Douglass Hospital. She also joined Portsmouth, N.H.-based Wentworth Health Partners General Surgery.

Tampa, Fla.-based Florida Orthopaedic Institute appointed Joseph Gordon as its new CEO.

Sacramento, Calif.-based Surgical Affiliates announced Lynette Scherer, MD will take over as CEO, succeeding Leon J. Owens, MD, who will step down from the role and become executive chairman of the board. Scott Flacks, who previously served as COO of…

Christian Müller, PhD, is leaving Carl Zeiss Meditec AG's management board to serve as Carl Zeiss AG's CFO.

Sam Rahman, MD, an interventional cardiologist, and Vera Zaraket, MD, a gastroenterologist, joined the Florence, S.C.-based Carolinas Hospital System staff.

Stryker named Timothy Scannell its president and COO, starting Aug. 1.