HEALTH

Cedars-Sinai Executive to Resign: Sheldon S. King, president and chief executive of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center since 1989, will step down on Jan. 14. King, whose departure was not unexpected, is leaving to “pursue new career objectives,” a hospital statement said. Cedars’ board has elected Thomas M. Priselac, the hospital’s No. 2 executive, to succeed King. A former chief executive of Stanford University Hospital, King had been rumored to be considering the top executive post at a Long Island, N.Y., hospital. But Cedars spokesman Ronald L. Wise said King has not disclosed what his next career step will be. Priselac, who was widely seen as King’s likely successor, joined the 900-bed hospital in 1979 as an assistant administrator and has held his current jobs as executive vice president and chief operating officer for five years.