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CEO, UVA HEALTH; EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR HEALTH AFFAIRS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE
CEO, UVA HEALTH; EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR HEALTH AFFAIRS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
Since joining UVA Health in 2020, Kent, a vascular surgeon who grew up in Nevada, has overseen significant expansion of the integrated health system.
With University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, Kent helped establish the $350 million Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology, which broke ground in late 2023.
Recognizing Kent’s work, members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted in late 2023 to extend his contract as executive vice president for health affairs and CEO for UVA Health through 2030.
As a researcher, Kent has investigated molecular mechanisms underlying vascular disease with a goal of developing new treatments.
WHAT I WAS LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL: I was a cattle rancher, and no one was thinking I would enter medicine and be a surgeon or be a business leader — myself included.
WHERE I SEE MYSELF IN 10 YEARS: Wherever I am, I hope to be involved in what I expect to be major medical advancements. We are in a time of incredible change and growth. I fully anticipate that we will see new cures and therapies developed over the next 10 years that will completely change the game for all of us.
