DHH deputy secretary picked for S.C. job

Anthony Keck, deputy secretary for Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals, has been selected to head the South Carolina Health and Human Services Department. South Carolina Gov.-elect Nikki Haley selected Keck, a former adviser to Gov. Bobby Jindal. Keck, 43, has been deputy secretary for Louisiana’s DHH since October. He was Jindal’s policy adviser on health and social services. Before joining Louisiana state government, Keck conducted research at Tulane University. From 1998 to 2002, he worked in Santiago, Chile, as a manager, then director, of Latin American operations with Johnson & Johnson’s medical devices and diagnostics group. Kathy Kliebert, who currently serves as assistant secretary of the Office of Behavioral Health, has been selected to replace Keck at DHH.