Pepe has been chief medical officer since 2000. He is a board certified internist who has practiced at the hospital for his entire professional career.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (WGIR) — The interim president of Catholic Medical Center in New Hampshire is now the hospital’s new president and chief executive.
The Manchester hospital announced Joseph Pepe to the position Tuesday.
Pepe has been chief medical officer since 2000. He is a board certified internist who has practiced at the hospital for his entire professional career.
Pepe received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1987.
He succeeds Alyson Pitman Giles, who said in January she was stepping down as president after 13 years.
From left: Catholic Medical Center Search Committee Chairman Joseph B. Reilly; new hospital CEO Joseph Pepe, M.D.; Bishop Peter A. Libasci; and CMC Board Chairman Joseph Graham, after announcing Pepe's appointment Tuesday. (Courtesy)
Catholic Medical Center is a 330-bed full-service health care facility, offering full medical-surgical care with more than 28 sub-specialties.
Despite a large field of qualified candidates, the search committee was unanimous in its selection of Pepe, due mostly to his “deep institutional knowledge, commitment and the passion he presents for the hospital and its Catholic identity,” said Centrix Bank President and CEO Joseph R. Reilly, search committee chairman.
Pepe replaces Alyson Pitman Giles, who stepped down as CMC’s president and CEO in mid-January after 13 years as the hospital’s chief executive.
Reilly was joined by CMC Board Chairman Joe Graham, vice president of Clear Channel Media, and the Rev. Peter A. Libasci, Bishop of Manchester, in making the announcement to a room full of staff, media and diocese representatives at the medical center.
