Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola University Medical Center selected Chad Whelan, MD, to serve as president.
Here are four takeaways:
1. Most recently, Dr. Whelan served as senior vice president and CMO of the medical center.
2. A hospitalist, he is also a professor in the department of medicine for Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
3. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed publications, including JAMA and Journal of Hospital Medicine.
4. Loyola University Medical Center is a 547-bed hospital that houses the Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, a children's hospital and the Loyola Outpatient Center.