Health Care 2024: DR. MARLON LEVY

Levy has held his interim posts for nearly two years since Virginia Commonwealth University leadership pushed Dr. Art Kellermann to resign. Kellermann’s November 2022 exit came shortly before news broke in 2023 that VCU Health had paid approximately $73 million to back out of a $325 million development project that Kellermann warned against.

Levy appeared before the Virginia General Assembly’s investigative body with VCU President Michael Rao in June when it released a study that found the university and Rao have too much influence over the health system’s operations. State analysts recommended that VCU Health change its bylaws to make the health system’s CEO report to the health system’s board and to eliminate its president position, which is filled by the president of VCU.

Levy joined VCU Health in 2015 as chair of its transplant surgery department and director of the VCU Hume-Lee Transplant Center. Previously, Levy was surgical director of transplantation at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

Levy received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He also has an MBA from Brandeis University.