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Health Care 2025: SAMPSON, AMY
Since 2023, Sampson has led Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, where she oversees 4,000 employees. She has worked for the pediatric health system for about 35 years. Established in 1961, CHKD offers neonatal and pediatric intensive care, cancer care, acute inpatient rehabilitation, and medical and surgical care, as well as transitional care. Additionally, the […]
Health Care 2025: MATHEIS, DENNIS
Matheis has led Sentara Health, a not-for-profit health system with 12 hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina, since 2022, overseeing more than 34,000 workers. Sentara broke ground in October 2024 on a $107 million, 42-bed acute care hospital in South Boston expected to open in summer 2026. After the health system said in April it […]
Health Care 2025: FRIEDLANDER, MICHAEL J.
As founder and head of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, Friedlander leads 40 research teams with more than 450 faculty, staff and students working together to solve major health challenges, including brain disorders, heart disease and cancer. Under his leadership, the institute, which was founded in 2010, had been awarded more than $379 […]
Health Care 2025: McBRIDE, MAUREEN
Since 2023, McBride has been CEO of UNOS, the nonprofit that has managed the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) for more than four decades. UNOS has come under congressional scrutiny in recent years, and a law signed in September 2023 authorized the Health Resources & Services Administration to break the OPTN management contract […]
Health Care 2025: SHANNON, ERIK
Shannon has overseen this division of UVA Health since 2021, starting as an interim chief executive and then as permanent CEO. With about 2,700 employees, UVA Community Health includes three Northern Virginia hospitals — Prince William Medical Center, Haymarket Medical Center and Culpeper Medical Center — as well as an integrated network of medical practices, […]
Health Care 2025: JUST, DR. J. SCOTT
A former ER doctor, Just has been CEO of UVA Physicians Group since 2023. Founded in 1979, the nonprofit university-associated organization supports UVA Health physicians and providers at U.Va. Medical Center and numerous clinical practice group locations. More than 1,100 University of Virginia clinical faculty members were dually employed by UPG and U.Va.’s medical school […]
Health Care 2025: TUGMAN, RICHARD
Tugman became president and CEO of Centra Health in October 2024, after serving in an interim capacity since Amy Carrier’s departure in March 2024. The regional nonprofit health system serves more than 500,000 people and has four hospitals along with numerous primary care and specialty practices. Tugman was previously CEO of Piedmont Community Health Plan, […]
Health Care 2025: STAMP, TODD
Stamp leads Fortune 500 pharma manufacturer Merck’s location in Elkton. A former analytical chemist at the start of his career, Stamp joined Merck in 1997 as a project engineer and worked his way up. The company founded a plant in the Rockingham County town in 1941. To expand its human papillomavirus vaccine manufacturing capacity, in […]
Health Care 2025: SMITS, BOUWIEN
Smits joined Civica as head of its sterile injectable manufacturing facility in Petersburg in fall 2023. A group of U.S. hospitals and philanthropic organizations established Civica in 2018 to address chronic generic drug shortages, and the nonprofit is part of Petersburg’s pharmaceutical hub. The Utah drugmaker received the occupancy permit for its $140 million, 140,000-square-foot [&hellip[...]
Health Care 2025: NANTZ, MARK
As the head of Valley Health, Nantz oversees about 6,000 employees and six hospitals, as well as more than 70 medical practices. The not-for-profit health system serves a population of more than 500,000 in the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia and Maryland. Before joining Valley Health in 2020, Nantz held executive roles at Bon Secours Mercy […]
Health Care 2025: MANNIX, DR. MARY N.
Following its mission to promote the health of its Shenandoah Valley community, Augusta Health, which Mannix has led since 2008, launched its mobile medical unit to help expand access to primary medical care in April. Mannix oversees roughly 2,400 employees (as of 2023) who work at the community-owned hospital, family practices and other outpatient facilities. […]
Health Care 2025: BLACKLEY, SETH
Blackley founded Evolent Health in 2011 with fellow Harvard Business School alums Frank Williams and Tom Peterson with a goal of providing technology to help health systems shifting to value-based care — where payment is connected to patient outcomes. In 2015, Evolent debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $195 million. Initially serving as […]
