Brett Branson, MD, FACOG, recently has been appointed chief medical officer of TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center. He will continue to practice obstetrics and gynecology at TriStar Medical Group Bluegrass OB/GYN.

Branson received his medical degree and completed residency at Loma Linda University and then spent nine years in practice in Northern California before moving to Tennessee in 1995. The immediate past chief-of-staff at TriStar Hendersonville, Branson succeeds former CMO R. Jason Thurman, MD, FAAEM, CPPS, who was doing double duty at the Hendersonville hospital and at TriStar Skyline