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Hershey Medical Center names Hanna vice president operations

Maher Hanna will join Hershey Medical Center as a new vice president of hospital operations beginning Monday, Feb. 22.

In this role, Hanna will be operationally responsible for Family and Community Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Organ Transplantation, the Simulation Center and Pathology.

Hanna will serve as administrative and business officer to his core group of clinical departments and strategically partner with nursing leadership and other stakeholders to enhance and support existing clinical programming.

He is currently regional vice president of professional services at the University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital and Alice Hyde Medical Center. Hanna provides leadership for the Cardiovascular Service Line, Oncology Service Line, Diagnostic Imaging Services, Vascular Interventional Radiology Services, Wound Management and Hyperbaric Oxygen Services, Pharmacy Services, Clinical and Anatomic Pathology Laboratories and the Adirondack Regional Blood Center. Hanna previously held several leadership positions for Departments of Laboratory Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar and King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

He graduated from Clemson University with a Master of Business Administration (Operations) and received a Bachelor of Science – Cytotechnology from the Medical University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Science – Pre-Medicine from Bob Jones University.

Hanna is a fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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