Banner-University tabs Carr chief officerย 

Dr.ย Gordon Carr, critical care medical director of the Intensive Care Unit at Banner-University Medical Center Tucson, has been named the hospitalโ€™s chief medical officer.

He succeeds Dr.ย Andreas Theodorou, who recently was named regional medical officer over Banner Healthโ€™s three academic medical centers in Tucson and Phoenix.

Carr is a pulmonologist and intensivist in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine within the University of Arizona department of medicine. He joined the faculty in 2011, starting out as medical director of the Intensive Care Unit at University of Arizona Centerโ€“South Campus, now known as Bannerโ€“University Medical Center South.

He came to Tucson from Chicago, where he worked at several medical centers.


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