UNC Health is seeking a system minded, mission driven leader to serve as Entity President, with responsibility for UNC Medical Center, its affiliated community hospitals, UNC Hillsborough and UNC Chatham, and their Youth Behavioral Health Hospital. This role offers the opportunity to lead a complex academic medical center while ensuring that advanced, specialized care is effectively integrated with high quality community based services.
UNC Health is a publicly owned, not for profit academic health system with a statewide mandate to improve the health of North Carolinians. UNC Medical Center serves as the flagship academic and referral center for the state, providing highly specialized and quaternary care while supporting the education of future clinicians and the advancement of research. UNC Hillsborough and UNC Chatham extend this mission by delivering accessible, high quality care closer to home, serving distinct populations and geographies as part of a coordinated system of care. The organization operates at scale across urban, suburban, and rural communities and is closely affiliated with the UNC School of Medicine, aligning patient care with education, research, and public service.
The President will be accountable for the overall performance, integration, and strategic direction of the medical center and its affiliated hospitals. Success in this role requires the ability to lead within a matrixed academic health system and to have shown a demonstrable track record of balancing the distinct needs of an academic medical center while advancing systemwide priorities related to access, quality, workforce sustainability, and financial stewardship.
Candidates should bring experience leading complex healthcare organizations where clinical excellence, operational rigor, and mission accountability intersect. The ideal leader will understand the pressures facing academic medicine today, including workforce challenges, financial constraints on academic priorities, and the need to deliver advanced care more equitably across a broad population—and will approach these challenges with pragmatism, collaboration, and a strong sense of public purpose.
This position offers the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the future of a public academic health system, strengthening the connection between academic medicine and community care while helping ensure that the state’s most complex clinical capabilities are accessible, sustainable, and aligned with the needs of North Carolina’s communities.
Please direct all inquiries, nominations and applications to the WittKieffer consultants supporting this search; Jason Petros, Rachel Polhemus, and Angela Raphael via email at [email protected].