Ronald Werthman has become senior vice president and chief financial officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A 22-year veteran of finance and strategic planning for Johns Hopkins Medicine, Werthman succeeds Richard Grossi, who retired after 37 years with Johns Hopkins. Previously, Werthman was senior vice president of finance and the treasurer and chief financial officer for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. As co-leader of Johns Hopkins Medicine finance and of the Strategic Plan’s performance priority, Werthman spearheads efforts to reduce system costs while improving patient care.

Ralph Hruban, M.D., has been named the Baxley Professor in Pathology, director of the Department of Pathology, director of pathology for Johns Hopkins Medicine and pathologist-in-chief for The Johns Hopkins Hospital. A 1985 graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a faculty member for 25 years, Hruban has served as interim director of the department since February 2014.Hruban also directs the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center and the Division of Gastrointestinal/Liver Pathology.

Thierry Huisman, M.D., professor of radiology and radiological science, pediatrics, neurosurgery and neurology, has been appointed director of the Department of Imaging at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Formerly chairman and radiologist-in-chief of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, he was recruited in 2007 to join the faculty at Johns Hopkins, where he is also medical director of the Division of Pediatric Radiology.

Kim Sherbrooke, M.H.A., has become vice president and chief operating officer of the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians. She will oversee the ambulatory care operations at sites where Johns Hopkins-employed physicians practice. Her responsibilities also include overseeing the training, education and engagement for community physicians aligned with or employed by Johns Hopkins. She will collaborate with the Office of Managed Care Contracting and will be the primary lead for assessing and implementing telemedicine in ambulatory care and for Access Services. Previously, she was chief operating officer for Indiana University Health Physicians.

Leslie Tung, Ph.D., professor and director of the undergraduate program in biomedical engineering, has been named interim director of the department, succeeding Elliot McVeigh, Ph.D., who resigned as department director after serving eight years at its helm. Tung, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 19-year veteran of The Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, oversees the largest undergraduate major at The Johns Hopkins University.

Xinzhong Dong, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience and neurosurgery, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is one of 26 newly tapped investigators and will receive a renewable five-year appointment that provides salary and benefits to foster the work of his research team, which studies the mechanisms behind sensation, including pain, itch and touch.

Jonathan Lewin, M.D., senior vice president of integrated health care delivery, co-chair for Johns Hopkins Medicine strategic planning, professor and director of the Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, and radiologist-in-chief for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been elected president of the American Roentgen Ray Society. 

Paul Nagy, Ph.D., associate professor of radiology and radiological science and director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center, has been named one of eight Health Care Innovator honorees chosen by the Baltimore Business Journal out of more than 60 nominees. Nagy received recognition for health care education. He is program director for multidisciplinary clinical leadership programs in patient safety and quality, clinical analytics, and commercial ventures creation.