PITTSBURGH — Allegheny Health Network this week announced the appointment of Bethany Casagranda, DO, as the organization’s new chief medical officer, and president of Allegheny Clinic, AHN’s employed physician organization, effective Jan. 1.
Casagranda succeeds Donald Whiting, MD, who has served as CMO since 2019 and is the long-time chair of the network’s Neuroscience Institute. Whiting will continue in his neuroscience chair role, which includes developing AHN’s new integrative neurologic disease treatment and research center on the Allegheny General Hospital campus.
As chair of AHN’s Imaging Institute since 2017, Casagranda has advanced high-quality care, leveraging state-of-the-art imaging technology across the network’s expansive system of hospital and ambulatory imaging facilities.
In her new capacity as CMO, Dr. Casagranda will serve as the lead clinical executive for AHN’s employed physician organization and AHN hospital medical staffs; AHN has a network of 2,500 employed and affiliated doctors. She will also play a key role in AHN’s ongoing clinical transformation, including integrated efforts between AHN and Highmark Health to further develop and execute the organization’s clinical model.
Casagranda obtained her undergraduate degree from Washington and Jefferson College, earned her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed her residency and fellowship training at UPMC, where she remained on staff and faculty until 2013, when she joined AHN.
At AHN, she has held a variety of leadership positions, including program director of the radiology residency program, musculoskeletal director, and most recently, professor and chair of the department of radiology.
Her clinical specialty is musculoskeletal radiology, and she is certified by the American Board of Radiology in diagnostic radiology.
“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 and Dr. Farah, who have held this position,” Casagranda says.
“I look forward to working with all my physician colleagues, AHN hospital presidents, and leaders across Highmark Health, as we care for our patients and members and build on our shared commitment to creating a transformative health model that sets the standard for care quality, value, equity, population health and clinician wellness.”