Two New Administrative Leaders Hired At Cumc

NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2007 – Columbia University Medical Center is strengthening its operations with two new administrative hires at the medical school and the medical center, Lee Goldman, M.D, Columbia’s executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences, announced today.

Martha Hooven Martha Hooven, now the associate chair for administration for the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (like Columbia, ranked among the top 10 medical schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report), will become vice dean for administration for Columbia’s medical school, the College of Physicians & Surgeons. The school has more than 4,000 faculty in clinical practice and nearly 300 in basic sciences faculty.

She will oversee a staff of 29 administrators in departments, institutes, and centers in the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

In nine years at the University of California, San Francisco, Ms. Hooven was instrumental in helping the department double in size and helped recruit more than 50 division chiefs and other key faculty. She oversaw a $350 million budget for more than 20 divisions and more than 2,500 faculty and staff.

Amador Centeno Amador Centeno, currently chief of administration for health services on Columbia’s Morningside campus, will become associate vice president for facilities, leading the growth and improvement of the more than 20 acres that comprise the Medical Center campus.

At the Morningside campus, Mr. Centeno oversaw finance, information technology, facilities, communications, human resources, insurance and immunization for Health Services. Before joining Columbia, he was vice president for administration at Beth Israel Medical Center from 2003 to 2006, where he supervised a staff of more than 500 people.

Both are slated to begin Jan. 1, 2008.

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