Cejka Executive Search, the healthcare executive and physician search division of Cross Country Healthcare Inc. (NASD: CCRN), announced Alan Johns joined the firm as executive VP, managing principal, to lead the firm’s academic medicine and health sciences practice.

Jones has three decades of experience in higher education/academic health sciences administration, finance, operations, strategic planning, research administration, risk assessment and accountability. Prior to joining executive search four years ago, he held senior leadership positions at public and private, research-intensive universities.

Cejka’s academic medicine and health sciences practice targets schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry pharmacy, public health allied health professions, and cancer centers and other research institutes.