M. Roy Wilson, M.D., president of Wayne State University, has been appointed to the University of Miami's UHealth Board of Directors.
The panel of highly respected leaders will provide strategic oversight to the University of Miami (Florida) Health System.
The University of Miami "is making this bold move to position UHealth to be more responsive to its overall mission to its patients, research and medical education," university officials said in a news release. "As health care evolves rapidly, health care systems must operate in an environment of thoughtful decision making that is nimble and adaptive to the market. Building this board, made up of experienced leaders in health care and business, creates a critical framework to guide the strategic vision of UHealth in order to serve better its patients and the community."
The UHealth Board of Directors will meet quarterly. The board consists of 11 members, including trustees of the University of Miami and a number of leaders in the national health care arena.
President Wilson's co-members on the board include Hilarie Bass, co-president of Greenberg Traurig LLP; Isaac Ferniany, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the UAB Health System of the University of Alabama at Birmingham; Chris Grant, chief operating officer for Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Foundation and a member of Kaiser Permanente's senior executive management team; Manny Kadre, chairman and chief executive officer of MBB Auto Group; Jane Sylvester Malfitano, president and secretary of the Harcourt M. and Virginia W. Sylvester Foundation; Stuart Miller, executive chairman and former chief executive officer of Lennar Corp. and president of the Lennar Foundation Inc.; and Peter Slavin, M.D., president of Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
Ex-officio members include Richard Fain, chairman and chief executive officer of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.; Julio Frenk, M.D., Ph.D., president of the University of Miami; and Edward Abraham, M.D., executive vice president for Health Affairs of the University of Miami and chief executive officer of UHealth.
"It is imperative that we transform our academic health system to better realize its mission of providing high-quality care, both on its technical and its interpersonal dimensions," Dr. Frenk said. "Creating an independent board of directors for UHealth will make it possible to tap the expertise of highly-regarded leaders who have agreed to join it. This strategic move will enable UHealth to accomplish our ambitious goal of becoming a preeminent academic health system that provides superior care to patients while improving population health, advancing discoveries, and developing the clinical spaces to educate the next generation of outstanding health professionals."