Dr. Salazar will step into his new role Aug. 15 and will also serve as a professor pediatrics and the James C. Overall endowed chair, according to a March 11 system news release.
Most recently, he served as chair of the department of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and executive vice president and physician-in-chief at Connecticut Children’s, both in Hartford.
Dr. Salazar will be joined at VUMC by his spouse Olga Toro-Salazar, MD, a pediatric cardiologist who will join Monroe Carell as director of pediatric cardiac dimensional imaging (MRI and CT scan) and director of the pediatric cardio-oncology program.