Leadership in healthcare fields is growing increasingly complex due to a number of factors.

Dr. Carole Kenner, a scholar and educator with an international reputation as the "mother of neonatology nursing," has been appointed The College of New Jersey's Carol Kuser Loser Dean of the School of Nursing, Health and Exercise Science.

Christy Harris Lemak, Ph.D., has been named chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Health Services Administration. Lemak comes to UAB from the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the Griffith Leadership Center in Health Management and Policy.

Indiana State University officials have selected a veteran health care educator, researcher and administrator to serve as dean of the College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services.

J.D. Polk, D.O., M.S., M.M.M., CPE, FACOEP, has been named dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Des Moines University after an extensive national search process. Dr. Polk will assume the role August 1.