Dr. Marschall Runge recommended to lead U-M Health System

November 24, 2014
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Dr. Marschall RungeDr. Marschall RungeANN ARBOR—University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel today announced he will recommend the appointment of Dr. Marschall Runge to become U-M’s executive vice president for medical affairs March 1, pending approval by the Board of Regents in December.

Runge is the executive dean for the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, where he has been a faculty member since 2000. He also is chair of the Department of Medicine.

“Dr. Runge has significant experience and success in multiple aspects of health care and academic health sciences,” Schlissel said. “His accomplishments as a scientist, physician and leader are ideally suited to advance the UMHS tripartite mission of clinical care, education and research.”

As executive dean at UNC, Runge assists the medical school dean and health system CEO in providing overall academic and clinical leadership for the School of Medicine and the UNC Health Care System. He works in close partnership with the president of UNC Hospitals and the president of the UNC faculty practice plan and other university leaders.

“I am very pleased to be selected to lead such a highly regarded academic medical center.” Runge said. “I believe Michigan is uniquely positioned and has the best opportunity among academic health centers to not only thrive during this time of dramatic change, but also to direct change in academic medicine.”

Runge, 60, also is principal investigator and director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute at UNC. This institute is one of 55 medical research institutions working together as a national consortium to improve the way biomedical research is conducted nationwide.

He is an honors graduate of Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a Ph.D. in molecular biology. He earned his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was an intern and resident in internal medicine. He completed a cardiology fellowship at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital and was a faculty member there prior to moving to Emory University as an associate professor of medicine in 1989.

Before joining the UNC faculty, Runge was the John Sealy Distinguished Centennial Chair of Internal Medicine and director of the Division of Cardiology and the Sealy Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

He will lead a U-M Health System that includes the 990-bed hospital complex and 40 clinical care locations of the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers, the U-M Medical School with its 1,700-physician Faculty Group Practice, numerous research laboratories and projects funded by more than $470 million in research grants, and highly regarded training programs for physicians and biomedical scientists.

Runge will replace Dr. Michael Johns, a U-M Medical School graduate and former chancellor of Emory University, who since June has served as interim executive vice president for medical affairs and interim chief executive officer of the U-M Health System while a national search for a permanent EVPMA was conducted.

 

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