LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — The CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center says he’s retiring at the end of June 2017.

Dr. James Weinstein told the board a year ago that he would be stepping down at the end of his contract.

Anne-Lee Verville, chairwoman of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board of Trustees, will co-chair the committee to find Weinstein’s replacement.

Next week, a search firm working with the board will be talking to nurses, former trustees, professors at the Geisel School of Medicine and other members of the community to create a job description.

Weinstein became CEO and president in 2011 following a transition from a dual leadership model in which the presidents of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic co-governed the organization.

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