NIH taps cardiologist to lead largest US hospital devoted to clinical research

A great stroke association would be contacting him to see where we are in the national stroke strategy of solving all these problems in stroke. Our fucking failures of stroke associations will sit on their asses doing nothing.
http://www.healio.com/cardiology/practice-management/news/online/%7Ba1c01a58-73fc-437d-b84a-239f2436166d%7D/nih-taps-cardiologist-to-lead-largest-us-hospital-devoted-to-clinical-research
The NIH announced that it selected retired Army Maj. Gen. James K. Gilman, MD, to serve as the inaugural CEO of the NIH Clinical Center, the largest hospital dedicated to clinical research in the United States.

Gilman’s career includes a stint as chief of cardiology at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, in which he was responsible for training cardiology fellows, according to a press release from the NIH.

James K. Gilman

Gilman also led Brooke Army Medical Center, the Walter Reed Health Care System in Washington, D.C., and Bassett Army Community Hospital at Fort Wainwright in Alaska; served as commanding general of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick in Maryland; and worked as director of health policy and services in the Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army Medical Command, according to the release.
At the 200-bed, 870,000-square-foot NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, which had approximately 6,000 inpatient admissions and 100,000 outpatient visits in 2015, Gilman will oversee day-to-day operations and management, including guiding of performance and developing new operations policies, the agency stated in the release.
“Dr. Gilman is a cardiologist and highly decorated leader with rich experience in commanding the operations of numerous hospital systems,” Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, director of the NIH, said in the release. “His medical expertise and military leadership will serve the NIH Clinical Center well as it continues to strive for world-class patient care and research excellence.”
Gilman is expected to start in the new post in January.
Disclosure: Collins is an employee of the NIH. Gilman is an employee of the United States government.