LANSING, MI (AP)— Michigan’s chief medical executive and a top pandemic adviser to Governor Gretchen Whitmer is leaving state government for a new job in the private sector.
Dr. Joneigh Khaldun will be replaced at least temporarily by Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, a senior public health physician in the state health department who oversaw COVID-19 testing strategy.
Khaldun was appointed as chief medical executive and chief deputy director for health in 2019. She also is a practicing emergency physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Her new job will be revealed soon.
Whitmer has begun a search to select a permanent chief medical executive.