EyeCare Partners appoints White as COO
EyeCare Partners (ECP), a St. Louis-based provider of clinically integrated eye care, has appointed Matthew White as chief operating officer of its ophthalmology business unit.
In this role, White will oversee daily operations, strategic planning and fiscal management across ECP’s ophthalmology practices, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and retina services throughout the U.S.
White brings experience in scaling physician-led organizations, having most recently served as senior vice president at Retina Consultants of America, where he helped grow the organization to over 300 sites and 330 physicians nationwide, according to ECP.
His prior experience across health care includes leadership roles of increasing responsibility at Elevance Health, Humana and MedMark Services.
Surgery Ventures announces Tavenner as assistant VP of operations
Surgery Ventures has appointed Sarah Tavenner as assistant vice president of operations for the North Texas division.
In this role, Tavenner will reportedly oversee 16 surgery centers across North Texas and Oklahoma.
She most recently served as COO, ethics and compliance officer and interim CEO of LewisGale Hospital Montgomery.
Surgery Ventures partners with over 3,400 physicians and owns or operates around 150 surgery centers across 16 states.
OnPoint Surgical appoints Laynor as chief commercial officer
OnPoint Surgical Inc., a leader in augmented reality and artificial intelligence guidance for spinal interventions, has announced the appointment of Jeremy Laynor as chief commercial officer.
Laynor has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in the medical device, software and health technology industries.
Most recently, he served as senior vice president of global sales at Providence Medical Technology. Before that, he held senior leadership roles at Paradigm Spine, Medtronic and Cardinal Health, where he led sales strategies in orthopedic and spine markets, developed surgeon education programs, and introduced go-to-market models for ASCs.
“Laynor is an exceptional commercial leader whose deep expertise in orthopedic and spine markets, coupled with his proven ability to scale global sales organizations, will be transformative as OnPoint advances commercialization of our AR-AI surgical guidance systems,” Philipp Lang, CEO of OnPoint Surgical Inc., said in a press release. “His leadership will be critical as we expand into new surgical applications and broaden adoption.”
Boston-based OnPoint Surgical, OnPoint Medical, OnPoint Knee, OnPoint Hip and OnPoint Sports are privately held medical technology companies developing AR guidance and machine learning for multiple surgical interventions. The OnPoint AR-AI technology platform is being developed for spinal, neurosurgical, orthopedic, arthroscopic, robotic and other surgical procedures.
Shah named chair of Department of Anesthesiology at Renaissance School of Medicine
Dr. Syed Shah was named chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, effective Nov. 6.
“Since he was appointed interim chair in 2023, Shah has demonstrated exceptional leadership and tireless dedication to advancing the department,” Peter Igarashi, Knapp Dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine, said. “His clinical expertise and commitment to innovation have strengthened faculty development, enhanced clinical programs and championed the growth of future health care professionals.”
Under Shah’s leadership, the department has expanded ambulatory surgical services, established 24/7 critical care coverage, and launched both an inpatient perioperative pain service and a perioperative anesthesiology consult service, according to the press release. Shah has also been instrumental in advancing anesthesiology care at the Eastern Long Island and Southampton clinical campuses.
