Dr. Kurt Newman, president and CEO of Children’s National Hospital, is set to hand the reins of the D.C. nonprofit where he’s spent nearly 40 years to its next chief.
The institution’s board has appointed pediatric health care executive Michelle Riley-Brown to succeed Newman, its leader of 12 years who, in September, announced his intention to retire. The transition takes effect July 1.
“Dr. Kurt Newman is irreplaceable,” Board Chair Horacio Rozanski, CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.,…
