Executive leadership team

Our leadership team is dedicated to advancing children's health in our community and is driven by a passion to put children first.

Elias Neujahr, MHA, MBA
President

Jeniece S. Roane, MS RN NE-BC Jeniece S. Roane, MS, RN, NE-BC
Vice president of operations

Marieka Helou, MD, MPH
Vice chair of education
Associate professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology

Karen Hendricks-Munoz, MD, MPH Karen Hendricks-Muñoz, MD, MPH
Vice chair of diversity, equity and inclusion and faculty development
Professor and chief, Division of Neonatal Medicine
Inaugural William Tate Graham Professor of Neonatal Medicine

C.D. Anthony Herndon, MD

C.D. Anthony Herndon, MD
Surgeon-in-chief
Professor and chief, Division of Urology

David A. Lanning, MD, PhD
Associate chief medical officer
Professor, Division of General Surgery

Henry Rozycki, MD
Vice chair of research
Professor, Division of Neonatal Medicine

Matthew Schefft, DP
Associate chief quality and safety officer
Associate professor, Division of Hospital Medicine

Gary Southard Jr., MBA
Senior administrator
Department of Pediatrics

Lauren Doyle Strauss, DO
Vice chair of clinical operations
Chief, Division of General Neurology and Headache

Nursing leadership

Ellen Derry, DNP, NEA-BC, NPD-BC
Associate chief nursing officer

Bridget Hutchinson, MSN, RN, CPEN
Interim director of nursing for acute care pediatrics, critical care and child life

Jaime Lovelace, MSN, BS, RN, PMH-BC
Director of nursing for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry