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Health Care | Biotech | Pharmaceuticals 2025: DR. MARLON LEVY
CEO, VCU HEALTH SYSTEM; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR HEALTH SCIENCES, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Health Care | Biotech | Pharmaceuticals 2025: DR. MARLON LEVY
CEO, VCU HEALTH SYSTEM; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR HEALTH SCIENCES, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
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 had paid approximately $78 million to get out of a development deal with the City of Richmond, a $325 million project Kellermann warned against.
Levy dealt with the fallout, including a dispute over whether the health system owed the city $56 million related to the project, although the state budget directed the health system to stop paying in 2024. Richmond Mayor Danny Avula said earlier this year he has “no appetite” for a lawsuit.
This May, the new VCU Hume-Lee Transplant Center completed its first lung transplant, and the health system opened a new unit for comprehensive liver care.
Formerly VCU Medical Center’s chief medical officer, Levy joined the health system in 2015 as chair of its transplant surgery department and director of the Hume-Lee center.
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