President Of UCLA Health System To Step Down To Take Pennsylvania Job

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The president of UCLA's health system will step down May 1 to take on a similar position in Pennsylvania, university officials said Monday.

Dr. David Feinberg, who was also CEO of the university's hospital system, will become president/CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, according to UCLA.

The announcement of Feinberg's departure comes as the university contends with a bacterial outbreak at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center that was traced to a pair of contaminated medical scopes and has infected at least seven people, killing two.

The university has notified 179 patients who underwent endoscopic procedures between October and January that they may have been exposed to the so-called "superbug" known as CRE.

In conjunction with Feinberg's departure, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block also announced that Dr. John Mazziotta, who established the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, has been appointed vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, effective Sunday.

Mazziotta has been with UCLA since 1983 and has been associate vice chancellor for health sciences and executive vice dean of the Geffen School of Medicine since 2012.

The university credited Feinberg with building partnerships with the Doheny Eye Institute, the Motion Picture and Television Fund health network, Cedars-Sinai and Select Medical.

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