President Mark Schlissel on Monday announced he will recommend the appointment of Marschall S. Runge, M.D., Ph.D., to become U-M’s executive vice president for medical affairs March 1, pending approval by the Board of Regents in December.
Runge is executive dean for the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has been a faculty member since 2000. He also is chair of the Department of Medicine.
“Dr. Runge has significant experience and success in multiple aspects of health care and academic health sciences,” Schlissel said. “His accomplishments as a scientist, physician and leader are ideally suited to advance the UMHS tripartite mission of clinical care, education and research.”
As executive dean at UNC he assists the medical school dean and health system CEO in providing overall academic and clinical leadership for the School of Medicine and the UNC Health Care System. He works in close partnership with the president of UNC Hospitals and the president of the UNC faculty practice plan and other university leaders.
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“I am very pleased to be selected to lead such a highly regarded academic medical center,” Runge said. “I believe Michigan is uniquely positioned and has the best opportunity among academic health centers to not only thrive during this time of dramatic change, but also to direct change in academic medicine.”
He will lead a U-M Health System that includes the 990-bed hospital complex and 40 clinical care locations of the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers, the Medical School with its 1,700-physician Faculty Group Practice, numerous research laboratories and projects funded by more than $470 million in research grants, and highly regarded training programs for physicians and biomedical scientists.
Runge, 60, also is principal investigator and director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute at UNC. The institute is one of 55 medical research institutions working together as a national consortium to improve the way biomedical research is conducted nationwide.
He is an honors graduate of Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s degree in biology and a Ph.D. in molecular biology. He earned his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was an intern and resident in internal medicine. He completed a cardiology fellowship at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital and was a faculty member there prior to moving to Emory University as an associate professor of medicine in 1989.
Before joining the UNC faculty, Runge was the John Sealy Distinguished Centennial Chair of Internal Medicine and director of the Division of Cardiology and the Sealy Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Runge will succeed Michael M.E. Johns, M.D., a U-M Medical School graduate and former chancellor of Emory University, who since June has served as interim executive vice president for medical affairs and interim chief executive officer of UMHS.
In a message to the campus community, Schlissel thanked Johns for his service, which will continue through March 1. He also thanked the EVPMA search advisory committee, led by Dr. Paul Lee, director of the Kellogg Eye Center and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the Medical School.
Stephen Towery
August 11, 2015
Dear Dr. Runge,
I had an appointment this morning in the Medical Procedures area of the hospital.
I was told to fast the night before the appointment. I was doing a Breath Test for GI problems.
At 8 AM I was given a glass of fructose to drink. At 10 AM I was given a glass of sucrose to drink.
At noon when I was ready to leave I asked that my blood sugar level be checked because I am diabetic and was having symptoms of high blood sugar. I was told I would have to go to the ER, check in, and they would check my blood sugar level. I imagine that would be very costly.
Is this the only way to handle this situation?
Sincerely,
Steve Towery
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12/28/48
1030 Arbordale Apt 2
Ann Arbor, MI 48103