Marsha Rappley. Photo by Derrick L. Turner, courtesy of Michigan State University.
VCU Health System has found its new leader.
The organization on Tuesday named Michigan State University’s Marsha Rappley as its new CEO and vice president of health sciences, a change that will become effective Aug. 15.
Rappley replaces Sheldon Retchin, who stepped down from the position earlier this year to take a similar post at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. Jerry Strauss, dean of the VCU School of Medicine, has been serving as interim CEO.
VCU spokeswoman Pamela Lepley said the school formed a committee this past winter to begin a five-month search for Retchin’s replacement. It hired national recruiting firm Isaacson, Miller to help with the process.
Lepley would not say how many candidates were interviewed but said the school “had an excellent pool of very well-qualified candidates.”
Rappley has served since 2006 as the dean of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, where she also earned her medical degree. She received a degree in nursing from the University of Michigan.
A practicing pediatrician, Rappley focuses much of her research on children with learning problems and other mental health challenges. She was also recently elected as chair of the Association of American Colleges board of directors.
“She has a national reputation and is a national leader in academic medicine,” Lepley said. “And we were looking for someone of that stature because part of being CEO includes representing academic medicine, both at the federal and state level, so we needed someone who is very strong and experienced in that.”
As CEO of the $2.7 billion VCU Health System, Rappley will lead the organization’s hospitals and outpatient clinics, MCV Physicians and Virginia Premier healthcare plans.
Her vice president of health sciences position will include leading the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health professions, as well as the Massey Cancer Center.
“(Rappley) has deep experience in our three primary missions, which are clinical care, education and research,” Lepley said.
Rappley will report to VCU President Michael Rao and the health system’s board of directors.
The VCU Health System hospitals encompass 1,125 beds, most of which are located at the VCU Medical Center’s downtown campus. MCV Hospital, the medical center’s teaching hospital component, supports outpatient clinics and the 700-physician faculty group MCV Physicians.
Rappley enters the VCU Health System as it continues construction on its $168 million Children’s Pavilion downtown and shortly after the establishment of the Children’s Hospital Foundation Heart Center.
VCU also recently withdrew its support of the construction of a freestanding children’s hospital in Richmond.
Marsha Rappley. Photo by Derrick L. Turner, courtesy of Michigan State University.
VCU Health System has found its new leader.
The organization on Tuesday named Michigan State University’s Marsha Rappley as its new CEO and vice president of health sciences, a change that will become effective Aug. 15.
Rappley replaces Sheldon Retchin, who stepped down from the position earlier this year to take a similar post at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. Jerry Strauss, dean of the VCU School of Medicine, has been serving as interim CEO.
VCU spokeswoman Pamela Lepley said the school formed a committee this past winter to begin a five-month search for Retchin’s replacement. It hired national recruiting firm Isaacson, Miller to help with the process.
Lepley would not say how many candidates were interviewed but said the school “had an excellent pool of very well-qualified candidates.”
Rappley has served since 2006 as the dean of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, where she also earned her medical degree. She received a degree in nursing from the University of Michigan.
A practicing pediatrician, Rappley focuses much of her research on children with learning problems and other mental health challenges. She was also recently elected as chair of the Association of American Colleges board of directors.
“She has a national reputation and is a national leader in academic medicine,” Lepley said. “And we were looking for someone of that stature because part of being CEO includes representing academic medicine, both at the federal and state level, so we needed someone who is very strong and experienced in that.”
As CEO of the $2.7 billion VCU Health System, Rappley will lead the organization’s hospitals and outpatient clinics, MCV Physicians and Virginia Premier healthcare plans.
Her vice president of health sciences position will include leading the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health professions, as well as the Massey Cancer Center.
“(Rappley) has deep experience in our three primary missions, which are clinical care, education and research,” Lepley said.
Rappley will report to VCU President Michael Rao and the health system’s board of directors.
The VCU Health System hospitals encompass 1,125 beds, most of which are located at the VCU Medical Center’s downtown campus. MCV Hospital, the medical center’s teaching hospital component, supports outpatient clinics and the 700-physician faculty group MCV Physicians.
Rappley enters the VCU Health System as it continues construction on its $168 million Children’s Pavilion downtown and shortly after the establishment of the Children’s Hospital Foundation Heart Center.
VCU also recently withdrew its support of the construction of a freestanding children’s hospital in Richmond.