Terry Pieper has been elected Dosher Memorial Hospital's chief of medical staff for 2019-20, according to a news release.

Pieper was chosen by physicians and other professional providers at the Southport hospital, officials said.

Pieper is in private practice at Howe Street Internal Medicine in Southport. He has been at Dosher Memorial Hospital since 2002, according to the release.

Others elected to the hospital's Medical Executive Committee were physicians André Minor, vice chief; Joseph Hatem, leader of the hospital's department of medicine; and William Bolding, leader of the hospital's department of surgery.

Dosher Memorial Hospital has 150 members on its medical staff in 18 specialties, officials said.