Healthcare Staffing Report: Aug. 21, 2014

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TeamHealth names new chief medical officer

Team Health Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TMH), the seventh-largest U.S. healthcare staffing provider, appointed Miles Snowden, M.D., as the company’s chief medical officer effective Sept. 15. He replaces Gar LaSalle who retired from the position earlier this year.

Snowden most recently served as chief medical officer for Optum, the health services division of UnitedHealth Group. As a member of the executive clinical leadership team of UnitedHealth Group, he represented the enterprise in industry venues, as well as with leaders of organized medicine, clients, regulators, legislators and investors.

Before joining UnitedHealth Group, Snowden was chief medical officer at Delta Air Lines. Earlier in his career, he spent 14 years in the private practice of internal medicine in Louisville, Ky., and was the founder and medical director of an occupational health consulting business.