The University of Virginia has waived its plan for a national search for the new CEO of the UVA Health system, opting to make the interim role permanent for Mitchell Rosner, MD.
Rosner was appointed to a three-year term. He has served as the interim executive vice president for health affairs for seven months, since the resignation of K. Craig Kent in February.
The UVA Health system includes four hospitals across Charlottesville, Culpeper and Northern Virginia, along with the UVA School of Medicine, UVA School of Nursing, UVA Physicians Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
While 120 professors and healthcare workers demanded the resignation of his predecessor, UVA said that more than two dozen chairs and leaders at UVA Health sent a letter in support of offering Rosner the role permanently.
“During his brief tenure as interim EVP for Health Affairs, Dr. Rosner has gained and fostered the trust and respect of our faculty and lent much needed stability to a tumultuous period for UVA Health,” the leaders wrote.
Rosner has been a faculty member at the UVA School of Medicine for 21 years and served as chair of the Department of Medicine before being selected to lead the health system.
“It’s an incredible honor,” said Rosner. “I’ve devoted my career to UVA and UVA Health, so this is the opportunity of a lifetime to be able to serve my colleagues, my friends and the community that I have lived in so long.”
Rosner earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his residency and fellowship in nephrology – the study of the physiology and diseases of the kidneys – at UVA Health University Medical Center.
“When patients walk into our doors, I want them to recognize that there is a sacred obligation to care for them, and we take that seriously,” he said.
Earlier this week, UVA Health named Teresa “Terrie” Edwards the chief executive officer of UVA Health University Medical Center, taking over for Wendy Horton.
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Horton was not named in the letter of no-confidence sent to UVA’s Board of Visitors and leadership but is one of three key leaders to leave UVA Health in the past year.
Kent resigned in February after a meeting with the Board of Visitors to discuss an independent review of allegations against him.
The former UVA School of Medicine dean and UVA Health chief health affairs officer Melina Kibbe, also named in the letter of no confidence, left UVA last week.
The no-confidence letter demanded the resignation of Kent and Kibbe, alleging both fostered a culture of fear and retaliation.
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