Janice E. Nevin, M.D., MPH, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer for Christiana Care Health System. She succeeds Robert J. Laskowski, M.D., MBA, who announced his retirement in March 2014.
Christiana Care is one of the country’s largest healthcare providers, with services that include home health and the Swank Memory Care Center.
She has been the system’s chief medical officer and chief patient safety officer since 2011. She also oversaw Christiana Care’s medical education programs, including the Delaware Branch Campus of Jefferson Medical College and 280 residents and fellows.
Nevin serves on the American Association of Medical Colleges Health Advisory Panel and Leadership Forum and is Vice Chair, Fellowship Advisory Committee of the Health Management Academy. She has served as chairwoman of the Family Medicine Review Committee for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and was a member of the 2010 ACGME Duty Hours Task Force.
For three years before becoming the CMO, Nevin was the senior vice president and executive director of Christiana Care–Wilmington, as well as the associate CMO. Before that, she was the chairwoman of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Christiana Care, as well as the medical director of the Christiana Care Visiting Nurse Association and clinical chairwoman of Women First, the Community Center of Excellence in Women’s Health.
Before joining Christiana, Dr. Nevin was a faculty member and the residency program director in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Jefferson Medical College.
Nevin graduated from Harvard University in 1981 and earned her doctorate in medicine with honors from Jefferson Medical College in 1987. She completed her family medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in and received her master’s degree in public health in community health services from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health.
She also finished a faculty development fellowship in family medicine at St. Margaret Hospital in Pittsburgh, completed a program in executive education at Harvard Business School in 2010, and was a fellow in Physician Executive Leadership at Health Management Academy in 2009.
