The Board of Visitors named Dr. Mitchell Rosner as executive vice president for health affairs and chief executive officer of U.Va. Health at a meeting Friday, finalizing his appointment after seven months in an interim role. He first assumed the interim role in February following the resignation of Dr. Craig Kent, who stepped down after an independent review was delivered to the Board.
The independent review looked into allegations made against Kent in a no-confidence letter delivered to the Board in September 2024 by 128 U.Va. Physicians Group-employed faculty. The faculty alleged a culture of fear and retaliation at U.Va. Health and the School of Medicine, concerns about patient safety, suppressed reports of misconduct and lack of transparency.
Rosner, who has been a faculty member at the School of Medicine for 21 years, will serve a 3-year term. He previously chaired the department of medicine before stepping in as interim executive vice president. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia before completing his residency and fellowship in nephrology at U.Va. Health.
Rosner’s selection came at the end of the full Board meeting Friday, following a letter signed by more than two dozen department chairs and health system leaders urging the University to appoint him permanently. Citing the letter and Rosner’s recent leadership, Interim President Paul Mahoney recommended waiving a national search. This decision was endorsed by Rector Rachel Sheridan and the full Board.
“In the short time I have been privileged to work with Mitch, I have been impressed with his judgment and inspirational leadership,” Mahoney said in a press release. “He is the right person to lead U.Va.’s health system forward.”
Dr. Taison Bell, interim chair of the department of medicine and one of the letter’s signatories, also praised Rosner’s leadership in the release, calling him “the kind of leader you read about in leadership books.”
Rosner said he was honored by the appointment and emphasized his commitment to strengthening U.Va. Health’s hospitals, schools and clinical services.
“I’ve devoted my career to U.Va. and U.Va. Health, so this is the opportunity of a lifetime to be able to serve my colleagues, my friends and the community that I have lived in so long,” Rosner said in the release.
He added that he plans to bolster the health system’s strengths and support the team members that make U.Va. Health a world-class institution.
“When patients walk into our doors, I want them to recognize that there is a sacred obligation to care for them, and we take that seriously,” Rosner said in the release. “They are entrusting themselves to people who not only care about them deeply but have the skill and the expertise as good as any place in the world. They’ll get excellent care by people who are devoted to doing it.”
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