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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Allegheny Health Network (AHN), they made an announcement today that Brian Johnson, MD, has been appointed as medical director and chief population health officer for its clinically integrated network, Physician Partners of Western PA. Dr. Johnson is a long-time physician leader for AHN and had most recently served as the president of AHN West Penn Hospital. According to a release in Pittsbrugh today from Allegheny Health Network, other role changes at AHN include:

• Lou Baverso, AHN’s chief operating officer, will serve as interim hospital president at AHN West Penn until a permanent successor is named. Mr. Baverso joined AHN in 2025. 

• Saad Mahmood, DO, has been appointed CMO at AHN Allegheny General Hospital. Dr. Mahmood brings significant experience to this role, having served as the hospital’s associate CMO since 2023. He succeeds Al Philp, MD, the hospital’s long-time CMO and network director for Trauma. Dr. Philp will remain on staff at AGH and will transition back to a full-time clinical role.
    

• Alan Murdock, MD, a trauma, critical care and emergency general surgeon who has served as director of the General Surgery residency program since 2017, will assume the role of interim network director, Trauma.
    

• Giath Shari, MD, has been appointed CMO for AHN Forbes Hospital. Dr. Shari, who has served as chief of the AHN Forbes Medicine Department since 2022, is a pulmonary and critical care physician. He succeeds Ezz-Eldin Moukamal, MD, the long-time Forbes CMO who last year was named AHN’s Chief Quality Officer.