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MedCity Moves Podcast: Recent Hires, Layoffs & an Interview with Lara Khouri, COO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

In this month’s episode, we dive into some of the recent executive appointments occurring in the healthcare sector, as well as layoffs affecting the industry. We also hear from Lara Khouri, the new COO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, about her passion for pediatric healthcare.

The MedCity Moves Podcast is back with another episode. We dive into some of the executive appointments occurring in the healthcare sector over the past month — including new leaders at CommonSpirit, Centene and Athenahealth. We also discuss layoffs affecting the industry — such the recent rounds of job cuts at Cerner, Brightline and Scripps Health.

For this episode’s guest interview, we hear from Lara Khouri, who recently became the new COO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She joined CHLA in 2015 after working at a number of other health systems, including Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and New York Presbyterian.

To hear the full episode and learn why Khouri had made a home in the pediatric healthcare space, click here: