Cristy Page, MD, was appointed CEO of Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, effective Nov. 24, after serving in an interim capacity since July.
As CEO, Dr. Page will lead a system of 20 hospitals and 56,000 employees, according to a UNH Health news release. She will also serve as vice chancellor for medical affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Prior to her interim appointment in July, Dr. Page was president of UNC Health Enterprises and chief academic officer of UNC Health. She has held various other roles as well, including executive dean at the medical school from 2019 until 2025. She also founded and led Mission3, an educational nonprofit, and created the Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training Scholars Program at the medical school.
“In every role she has held — physician, educator, innovator and mentor — Dr. Page has led with reassuring confidence and a clear sense of purpose. She is the kind of leader who builds trust by earning it, and who reminds us that the heart of healthcare is public service to others,” UNC System President Peter Hans said in the release. “We could not ask for a better steward of UNC Health’s mission.”
Dr. Page succeeds Wesley Burks, MD, who stepped down earlier this year to serve as chair of the board of NC Children’s, the enterprise that will oversee the comprehensive healthcare campus featuring the state’s first freestanding, independent children’s hospital.
