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Health Care 2025: JACKSON, REESE
Since 2016, Jackson has led Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, which includes the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center and more than 40 practice locations, as well as about 600 physicians serving Hampton Roads. In early April, the hospital opened a psychiatric emergency room, the first on Hampton Roads’ south side, and at the end of the month, the […]
Health Care 2025: JEVSEVAR, DR. DAVID S.
In 2022, Jevsevar became CEO of OrthoVirginia, the largest independent orthopedic practice in the state, with 155-plus orthopedic specialist physicians across more than 35 locations in Lynchburg, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Southwest Virginia and Hampton Roads. The practice, which is the official orthopedic and sports medicine provider of the Washington Commanders, turns 10 this year. An [&hellip[...]
Health Care 2025: PESICKA, EDWARD A.
Pesicka became CEO of Fortune 500 health care logistics and supply company Owens & Minor in 2019. In 2023, he announced a five-year strategic plan for the company to increase profits and reduce costs. Owens & Minor reported $10.7 billion in fiscal 2024 revenue, up from $10.3 billion in 2023. The company has been engaged […]
Health Care 2025: LEVY, DR. MARLON
After two years serving as VCU Health’s interim leader, Levy was appointed permanently in November 2024. A specialist in abdominal organ transplant surgery, Levy was named to lead the Richmond medical system and its health sciences department following the sudden departure of Dr. Art Kellermann in late 2022. Early in 2023, news broke that VCU […]
Health Care 2025: DAVIS, MELINA
In 2014, Davis became executive vice president of MSV, a trade organization that represents more than 30,000 physicians, physician assistants, residents and medical students. Four years later, she took the helm as CEO. MSV successfully advocated for laws to allow Virginia health care professionals to seek mental health care and help for career fatigue without […]
Health Care 2025: LUTES, MICHAEL
Lutes joined Bon Secours in 2022 as Richmond market president. The health system created his state president role this year; he now oversees the Richmond and Hampton Roads markets, including about 14,000 employees across the state. In May, the health system opened its approximately $80 million, 100,000-square-foot Harbour View Medical Center in Suffolk. The same […]
Health Care 2025: DAVIS-HAGENS, PAT
Davis-Hagens has had a busy 2025 as Bon Secours expands its Hampton Roads facilities. The health system opened its Harbour View Medical Center, an approximately $80 million, 100,000-square-foot hospital in Suffolk, in May. That month, Bon Secours also opened a primary care clinic in Portsmouth, and in June, its women’s imaging center in Portsmouth opened. […]
Health Care 2025: ARNER, STEVE
Arner succeeded Nancy Howell Agee as CEO in October 2024, after being promoted to president in 2023. He leads Carilion’s 13,000-plus workers, who serve about 1 million patients in Virginia and West Virginia at seven hospitals and 250 medical offices. Arner, who joined Carilion in 1996 as a financial analyst, previously served as chief operating […]
Health Care 2025: ROSNER, DR. MITCHELL
A nephrologist who joined the University of Virginia’s medical school as a professor in 2005, Rosner stepped in as interim executive vice president for health affairs in February. His predecessor, Dr. K. Craig Kent, resigned after an investigation into allegations in a letter of “no confidence” signed by 128 physicians in 2024. Despite Kent’s departure, […]
Health Care 2025: LUNN, DR. WILLIAM
In 2023, Lunn was promoted to president of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA’s Capital Division, which includes 18 hospitals across three states, including Virginia. In October 2024, LewisGale Hospital Montgomery in Christiansburg opened a $14 million, 10,000-square-foot freestanding emergency room. In December, the Reston Hospital Center opened an inpatient cancer care unit with eight rooms as[...]
Health Care 2025: NEWMAN, DR. CHRISTOPHER
Newman took over as president and CEO of the regional health system in March, after serving as its chief operating officer and chief medical officer since 2019. Mary Washington Healthcare began as an eight-room hospital in Fredericksburg in 1899 and now encompasses two hospitals, four emergency departments and more than 80 health care facilities. Before […]
Health Care 2025: THOMAS, RONY
Under Thomas’ leadership since 2004, LifeNet Health has continued to grow since its 1982 founding as the Eastern Virginia Tissue Bank. Today, the nonprofit that provides organ, tissue and cell transplants has approximately 1,500 employees globally. In 2024, the organization worked with a record 299 people donating 857 organs for transplant, a 25% increase from […]
