UVA Health University Medical Center names new CEO

Tammy Snyder will become CEO of UVA Health University Medical Center Aug. 3, according to a Monday announcement by the academic health system.

“University Medical Center is at a pivotal moment of transformation and growth,” Dr. Mitch Rosner, UVA Health CEO and executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Virginia, said in a statement. “As we continue advancing our mission across the commonwealth, we sought a leader with the vision, operational expertise and values necessary to guide our next chapter.”

Based in Charlottesville, the University Medical Center is UVA Health’s flagship teaching hospital, featuring about 700 beds, a Level I trauma center, a Level IV NICU and an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. It has more than 1,350 affiliated faculty members.

Snyder has more than 15 years of experience guiding large-scale patient care operations, quality and safety initiatives and operational improvements, according to a news release.

According to her LinkedIn profile, from 2023 until April 2026, Snyder served as president of New York’s Rochester General Hospital, Rochester Regional Health’s flagship hospital, which has about 8,000 employees and a $2 billion operating budget. There, she oversaw operations, strategic execution, quality, patient safety and workplace culture.

On April 8, Rochester General announced that Dr. Randy Green was the hospital’s new president and that Snyder had transitioned into a system-wide senior vice president of operations role for Rochester Regional Health, a nine-hospital health system that encompasses primary and specialty practices; rehabilitation centers; ambulatory campuses and urgent care facilities; senior services, facilities and independent housing; behavioral health services; and laboratories.

Earlier in her career, Snyder spent 13 years at Johns Hopkins Medicine in senior leadership roles, including chief administrative officer for the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and chief of staff to the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s chief operating officer and vice president of medical affairs.

After earning a degree in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Snyder received a master’s degree in public health from Yale School of Public Health.

“Her collaborative leadership style, focus on accountability and ability to translate strategy into measurable results will help us continue delivering exceptional care, education and research,” Rosner said in a statement.

UVA Health appointed Teresa L. Edwards interim CEO of the UVA Health University Medical Center in September 2025. She previously worked at Sentara Health for more than 16 years in various roles, most recently as senior vice president and regional president of its eastern division.

UVA Health has navigated numerous executive changes in recent months.

Dr. Craig Kent resigned as CEO of UVA Health in February 2025, following a no-confidence letter signed by more than 100 UVA Health physicians and a third-party investigation by a different law firm hired by the university.

In February, Kent filed a $34 million lawsuit in Albemarle County Circuit Court that named three lawyers — Les Bowers of Charlottesville’s MichieHamlett law firm and Gladstone Jones and Lynn Swanson — as defendants, along with the New Orleans-based firm Jones Swanson Huddell, where Jones and Swanson are partners.

Kent’s complaint alleges that the defendants publicized “shocking — and demonstrably false — accusations about him” to U.Va.’s board of visitors in a 26-page letter sent in February 2025, and later in media interviews.

Wendy Horton, the former University Medical Center CEO, announced in July 2025 plans to leave that September and Dr. Melina Kibbe, dean of the U.Va. School of Medicine, formally announced her resignation in August 2025.

Dr. Colin Derdeyn stepped in as interim dean in August 2025.

After serving as UVA Health’s interim CEO for seven months, Rosner was given the title permanently in September 2025.

UVA Health includes four hospitals across Charlottesville, Culpeper and Northern Virginia, along with nearly 300 clinics across Virginia.