Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health selected Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, to serve as executive vice president and chief strategy officer, effective in February 2019.
Here are five notes:
1. Dr. Shrestha most recently served as executive vice president and chief innovation officer at UPMC.
2. He was also executive vice president of UPMC Enterprises, a healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship venture.
3. Dr. Shrestha is chairman of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Innovation Committee and co-chair of Health Datapalooza.
4. He has completed a fellowship in informatics from the University of London in the United Kingdom and completed his MBA at Los Angeles-based University of Southern California.
5. He succeeds Carol Lovin, who was promoted to executive vice president and system chief of staff at Atrium Health.