Cardinal Health Inc. (CAH) said it appointed Donald Casey as chief executive officer, or CEO, of its medical segment, effective April 16, 2012. Casey will report to George Barrett, chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health.
As CEO of medical segment, Casey will assume full management responsibility for Cardinal Health's medical segment including medical-surgical products and services for hospitals, physician offices, clinical laboratories, ambulatory surgery centers, long-term care facilities and other health care providers.
Casey succeeds Mike Lynch, who will be leaving Cardinal Health to pursue his ambition to lead a company on his own in the Chicago area. Over the coming weeks, Lynch will work with Casey to ensure a seamless transition of leadership and will continue to support Cardinal Health on a part-time basis through September of 2012.
Casey joins Cardinal Health from the Gary and Mary West Wireless Health Institute, a non-profit research organization focused on lowering the cost of health care through novel technology solutions where he served as the organization's first CEO. He will remain on the Institute's board of directors. Before that, he spent 24 years at Johnson & Johnson, most recently as a member of the company's executive committee and worldwide chairman of its $10 billion Comprehensive Care Group, including its cardiovascular, diagnostic, diabetes and vision franchises.
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