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Health Care 2023: DR. SANDY L. CHUNG
Chung got hooked on medicine after a fourth-grade school project that called for her to represent a career. A neighbor who was a nurse helped her choose the profession, lending Chung a stethoscope and giving her shoe covers, a paper gown and tongue depressors. “It was amazing!” recalls Chung, this year’s president of the American […]
Revivicor’s $100 million pig-organ facility moves forward
By early next year, Blacksburg-based Revivicor will be raising genetically modified pigs in Montgomery County, with plans to harvest their hearts and kidneys for xenotransplantation into human patients. Founded in 2003 as a spinoff company of PPL Therapeutics (the company that cloned Dolly the sheep seven years earlier), Revivicor provided the genetically modified pig heart […]
Health Care 2023: LT. GEN. TELITA CROSLAND
Previously deputy surgeon general for the U.S. Army, Crosland became director of the Defense Health Agency in January, following her confirmation last year by the U.S. Senate. With a staff of nearly 140,000 civilians and military personnel and a budget of more than $54 billion, the decade-old Defense Health Agency is responsible for providing medical […]
Satellite internet improves mobile health care
The Health Wagon got its start in 1980 when Sister Bernadette Kenny, a nurse practitioner, began dispensing free, much-needed health care to people in rural Appalachia from her Volkswagen Beetle. “She was thinking outside the box,” says Health Wagon President and CEO Teresa Tyson. Kenny served as inspiration, Tyson says, when the health care […]
Health Care 2023: MICHAEL J. FRIEDLANDER
Friedlander is among the top leaders in Virginia focused on growing the biomedical research industry. Since he founded the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion a decade ago, the institute has doubled its lab facilities in Roanoke and expanded to new laboratories on the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus in Washington, D.C. […]
Health Care 2023: DR. MICHAEL J. DACEY
In January, Dacey, Riverside’s president, also became the health system’s CEO, succeeding Bill Downey, who transitioned to executive vice chairman and is remaining in an advisory role until his 2024 retirement. Dacey has also served as chief operating officer at Riverside, which has 9,000 employees and operates seven hospitals in Newport News, Williamsburg, Hampton, Yorktown, […[...]
Son’s cancer fight inspires startup
The sight of Neal Piper’s then-3-year-old son, Noah, stuck on the couch all day, tethered to an IV pole with a feeding tube after the boy’s cancer diagnosis in 2019 put his father on a new mission. Piper, who had 15 years of experience in commercializing health care products, including 10 years in sales, marketing […]
Health Care 2023: SEAN T. CONNAUGHTON
As leader of the nonprofit trade association representing 27 health care systems and hospitals since 2014, Connaughton strives to support the sustainability of Virginia’s health care system, reduce health care costs and improve the health of Virginia residents. A former chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors who also practiced law for 15 […]
Health Care 2023: ERIK SHANNON
Shannon, who began serving as interim CEO of UVA Community Health in October 2021, became the health system’s permanent CEO in November 2022. A division of UVA Health, UVA Community Health was formerly known as Novant Health UVA Health System. It has three community hospitals in Manassas, Haymarket and Culpeper, as well as a network […]
Health Care 2023: DR. DAVID S. JEVSEVAR
In 2022, Jevsevar became CEO of OrthoVirginia, the largest independent orthopedic practice in the state, with 140-plus specialists across more than 35 locations in Lynchburg, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Southwest Virginia and Hampton Roads. A board-certified orthopedic surgeon, he previously served as chair and regional vice president of orthopedics for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clin[...]
Health Care 2023: EDWARD A. PESICKA
Under Pesicka’s leadership since 2019, Fortune 500 health care logistics and supplies company Owens & Minor employs more than 1,400 people in Virginia and about 20,000 worldwide. The company reported $9.95 billion in 2022 revenue, but its net income was $22 million, down from a pandemic high of $222 million when the company was selling […]
Health Care 2023: ANTHONY ‘TONY’ BAKER
Baker leads Fortune 500 pharma manufacturer Merck’s vaccine operations in Elkton, managing hundreds of scientists, engineers who support the manufacturing, validation and process development of medicines to protect people from disease. Before Merck, Baker spent seven years at Biopharm Project Solutions. Baker joined Merck in 2008 as a process engineer and held engineering management jobs [&h[...]
