Virginia Commonwealth University
Michael Rao, Ph.D., and Sheldon M. Retchin, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Michael Rao, Ph.D., and Sheldon M. Retchin, M.D., M.S.P.H.

Boards and senior management

Senior leadership

Michael Rao, Ph.D.
President, VCU and VCU Health System

Sheldon M. Retchin, M.D., M.S.P.H.
CEO, VCU Health System, and senior vice president, VCU Health Sciences

John F. Duval
CEO, MCV Hospitals, VCU Health System

Jerome F. Strauss III, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean, VCU School of Medicine, and executive vice president for medical affairs, VCU Health System

John D. Ward, M.D.
President, MCV Physicians, VCU Health System

Cecil B. Drain, Ph.D., CRNA, FAAN, FASAHP
Dean, VCU School of Allied Health Professions

Jean Giddens, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN
Dean, VCU School of Nursing

David C. Sarrett, D.M.D., M.S.
Dean, VCU School of Dentistry, and associate vice president, faculty affairs, VCU Health Sciences

Victor A. Yanchick, Ph.D.
Dean, VCU School of Pharmacy

VCU Health System Authority Board of Directors

Michael Rao, Ph.D., Chair
M. Kirkland Cox, Vice Chair
Susan Roseff, M.D., Secretary
John Sherman, Treasurer
Robert M. Blue
Katherine E. Busser
Lakshmi Challa
PonJola Coney, M.D.
William M. Ginther
Thomas E. Gottwald
Eva Tieg Hardy

Anton J. Kuzel, M.D., M.H.P.E.
A. Donald McEachin
Alexander B. McMurtrie Jr.
Bruce Mathern, M.D.
John M. O’Bannon III
Sheldon M. Retchin, M.D., M.S.P.H.
William A. Royall Jr.
Jacqueline E. Stone
Steve L. Worley
Wilhelm Zuelzer, M.D.

VCU Board of Visitors

William M. Ginther, Rector
William A. Royall Jr., Vice Rector
Kamlesh N. Dave, M.D., Secretary
Teresa H. Carlson
Nancy C. Everett
Thomas F. Farrell II
Michael D. Fraizer
Robert D. Holsworth, Ph.D.

Kay Coles James
John A. Luke Jr.
Alexander B. McMurtrie Jr.
Sudhakar V. Shenoy
John W. Snow
Jacquelyn E. Stone
G. Richard Wagoner Jr.
Steve L. Worley