Jackson Health System has appointed John A. Brandecker, M.B.A., M.P.H., as senior vice president and chief administrative officer for Holtz Children’s Hospital and Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Women’s Hospital Center.

Brandecker comes to Jackson from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics where he was the associate hospital director of UIHC and the executive director of the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital. He has also served as vice president of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System and director of UCHHS’ Comer Children’s Hospital. Brandecker also spent 10 years at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in New York and another 10 years at Columbia University.