Wendy Horton, PharmD, CEO of UVA Health University Medical Center in Charlottesville, Va., will leave the organization in September for a new role.
Dr. Horton has been named senior vice president and president of adult care services at San Francisco-based UCSF Health, a UVA Health spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s on July 17.
Melina Kibbe, MD, the system’s chief health affairs officer and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has been named the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, according to a July 14 news release from UTHealth Houston.
The two exits follow the February resignation of K. Craig Kent, MD, who served as CEO of the system and the university’s executive vice president for health affairs.
During her tenure, Dr. Horton has played a key role in the medical center’s growth, Mitchell Rosner, MD, interim executive vice president for health affairs at the university, said in a statement shared with Becker’s. She joined UVA Health in 2020 after serving as chief administrative officer at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, according to her LinkedIn profile. An interim leader will be named soon, the statement said.
Dr. Kibbe has helped advance UVA Health’s 10-year strategic plan, which aims to position the system as the nation’s top public academic health system, according to a separate statement from Dr. Rosner.
She was appointed the 17th dean of the medical school in 2021 and has since overseen the hiring of more than 550 faculty members and 16 new chairs, along with launching new academic departments and clinical centers, according to the UTHealth Houston release.
She will succeed interim President LaTanya Love, MD, following a state-required 21-day waiting period.
