Carilion taps new chief nursing officer

Carilion Clinic announced several new leadership changes this week.

The Roanoke-based health system promoted Michelle Franklin has to chief nursing officer. She is replacing Tami Frost, who will depart Carilion later this summer.

Franklin was most recently a Carilion vice president responsible for women’s, children’s, nursing support and interpreter services. She began her career as a nursing assistant in 1990 and later progressed to roles in clinical and operational leadership, spanning over 30 years in both hospital and ambulatory areas. She previously served as co-interim chief nursing officer, overseeing the Nursing Center of Excellence and nursing at Carilion Medical Center and ambulatory practices. She has a master’s degree in nursing from Walden University.

Meanwhile, in June, Carilion appointed Dr. Andrew C. Herman as chair of its pediatrics department. Herman comes from Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he worked as vice president and chief medical officer for Levine Children’s Hospital and Jeff Gordon Children’s Center. He replaced interim chair Dr. Christopher Pierce, who retired from Carilion in May.

Herman has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Indiana University, earned a medical degree from Saint Louis University, and completed his pediatrics residency and neonatology fellowship at the University of Virginia.

Also, Carilion appointed Dr. Tristi Metcalf to chair of the obstetrics and gynecology department. She joined Carilion in April, replacing interim chair Dr. Isaiah Johnson, who remains a physician at Carilion.

Metcalf, a nationally recognized speaker on pelvic health and gynecology, comes from Cleveland Clinic, where she worked since 2021 as OB/GYN and Women’s Institute chief. She previously served as OB/GYN department chair at Houston Methodist Hospital.

She attended Lewis & Clark College and earned a medical degree from the Mayo Clinic Medical School. Metcalf completed residency at Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Scott and White Hospital and fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She served in the U.S. Air Force for over a decade, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Carilion has more than 13,000 employees serving nearly 1 million patients through hospitals, outpatient specialty centers and primary care practices in an area spanning 20 counties, including the Roanoke and New River valleys.