Geisinger named Karen Murphy, RN, Ph.D., Secretary of Health in Pennsylvania, its new executive vice president, chief innovation officer and founding director of the Steele Institute for Healthcare Innovation. She will begin her new duties in September.

Before becoming Secretary of Health, Murphy served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative, a $900 million Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services investment designed to accelerate health care innovation across the nation. She also has served as president and chief executive officer of the Moses Taylor Health Care System in Scranton, and chief executive officer of Physicians Health Alliance Inc., a medical group practice within Moses Taylor.An author and national speaker on health policy and health care innovation, Murphy earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration from Temple University Fox School of Business, Master of Business Administration from Marywood University, Bachelor of Science in liberal arts from the University of Scranton, and a diploma in nursing from the Scranton State Hospital School of Nursing. She also serves as a clinical faculty member in the medicine department at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.