Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani tapped a number of authorities veterans for key roles in his administration Monday, together with Dr. Mitch Katz, who will stay CEO of New York Metropolis’s public hospital system.
Katz was first picked because the Well being + Hospitals system’s prime government in 2017 by then-Mayor Invoice de Blasio. Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams then retained Katz for the publish upon his inauguration in 2022.
In a press launch Monday morning, Mamdani stated he’s additionally retaining Katz, citing his work on various points, together with spearheading H + H’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Dr. Katz led the monetary turnaround of NYC H+H, expanded entry to extra New Yorkers, and steered the nation’s largest municipal well being system by means of COVID-19,” Mamdani stated.
As well as, Mamdani stated he’s retaining Dr. Jason Graham as the town’s health worker, Michael Garner as Metropolis Corridor’s chief enterprise variety officer and Mir Bashar because the chief administrative officer within the mayor’s workplace.
Graham is one other longtime authorities hand who first began serving as the town’s health worker on an performing foundation in 2013. Bashar has been in Metropolis Corridor posts because the de Blasio administration, too.
Garner, against this, first entered municipal authorities service below Adams, who appointed him as Metropolis Corridor’s chief enterprise variety officer in 2023. Garner is seen as near Adams, having labored with him on variety efforts because the outgoing mayor’s days within the NYPD.
“These reappointments mirror my dedication to regular, skilled management that delivers actual outcomes for New Yorkers,” Mamdani stated of his newest appointments.
Mamdani, who’s being sworn in as the town’s subsequent mayor Thursday, had but to make various different prime appointments as of late Monday, together with saying a choose for faculties chancellor.
