New appointment for Cedars-Sinai's Center for International Health
US-based hospital and multi-specialty academic health science centre Cedars-Sinai has named Dr Heitham Hassoun Vice-President and Medical Director of its Center for International Health. The facility was created to harness technological advances to facilitate communication among doctors worldwide; physicians, scientists and researchers at Cedars-Sinai work with counterparts across the world, consulting, participating in interactive conferences and receiving patient files for rapid review by specialists.
Dr Hassoun will replace Dr Spencer Koerner, who is retiring at the end of the year after 41 years of service to Cedars-Sinai, including 22 years as Vice-President and Medical Director of International Health. “We are very fortunate to have someone of Dr Hassoun’s calibre join the Cedars-Sinai International Health team and carry on the extraordinary work of Dr Koerner,” said Richard B. Jacobs, Cedars-Sinai's Executive Vice-President and Chief Strategy Officer. “Dr Hassoun brings a wealth of experience in global healthcare management, business development and medical direction for international projects and global partners in more than 20 countries.”
As Medical Director of International Health, Dr Hassoun said he would expand Cedars-Sinai's strong international profile in China, Mexico, Latin America and elsewhere, in part by tapping his extensive experience with facilities in the Middle East. He joins Cedars-Sinai from Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he was Medical Director for Global Healthcare at Johns Hopkins Medicine International and an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Prior to this, he served as Medical Director for Methodist International in Houston and was an associate professor of cardiovascular surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.