14-hospital Allegheny Health Network selects radiologist as next chief medical officer

Allegheny Health Network, a 14-hospital health system based in Pittsburgh, has selected radiologist Bethany Casagranda, DO, MBA, as its new chief medical officer. 

Casagranda has served as chair of AHN’s Imaging Institute since 2017, growing the network’s radiologist roster from 28 to 124 during that time. She assumed the new CMO role Jan. 1, also taking over as president of Allegheny Clinic, the hospital system’s employed network of over 2,500 physicians. 

“As the chair of imaging, she has a unique, broad perspective on clinical operations that makes her the ideal candidate to assume this important role for our organization,” Jim Benedict, AHN president, said in an announcement.

Casagranda will serve as lead clinical executive overseeing Allegheny Health Network’s physician group and hospital medical staffs. Under her previous leadership, the health system’s Allegheny Valley, Westfield Memorial and Jefferson Hospitals have all opened newly expanded and renovated imaging centers. The Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh also is working to complete a $100 million upgrade of its imaging services. 

Casagranda has held various leadership positions at AHN including program director of the Radiology Residency Program, musculoskeletal fellowship director (she specializes in MSK imaging), and professor and chair of the Department of Radiology. The Imaging Institute also recently completed a four-year process of designating all its facilities as American College of Radiology diagnostic centers of excellence. 

She replaces Donald Whiting, MD, AHN’s chief medical officer since 2019 and chair of the network’s Neuroscience Institute, a role he’ll continue to fill. 

"It's the privilege of a lifetime to serve AHN as its next CMO, and to carry on the great tradition of so many phenomenal leaders, like Dr. Whiting…who have held this position," Casagranda said in the announcement.