Catherine DeAngelis will step down from her post as JAMA editor-in-chief next June, the journal said.

APCO Worldwide named former Pfizer public affairs director Francesca Tedesco VP.

HC&B named Digitas Health's Amy Chase senior interactive project manager.

Paul Thacker, a top researcher for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) whose work transformed regulation of industry marketing practices, is leaving the Senator's office to join the Project on Government Oversight.

Gardiner-Caldwell Communications named AstraZeneca's Richard Baxter VP client services.

Digital healthcare marketing agency Ignite Health, part of inVentiv Health, hired Hana Smetkova as VP, creative director, working out of the agency's Manhattan office.

Nycomed US hired Steve Andrzejewski as CEO, putting him in charge of Nycomed's US dermatology business and distribution and commercial operations for the three marketing and sales divisions Fougera, PharmaDerm and Savage Laboratories.

Everyday Health named Washington Post digital head Goli Sheikholeslami chief product officer.

Nycomed US named Steve Andrzejewski CEO.

Amgen named Novartis' Jonathan Peacock EVP and chief financial officer.