With a distinct eye on the future of health care, the University of Miami is pleased to announce the formation of the UHealth Board of Directors, a panel of highly respected leaders who will provide strategic oversight to the University of Miami Health System.
The University is making this bold move to position UHealth to be more responsive to its overall mission to its patients, research and medical education. 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 Board will meet quarterly and is made up of eleven members, including current trustees of the University of Miami and a number of leaders in the national health care arena.
Members are Hilarie Bass, Esq., co-president of Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Isaac William (Will) 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; Manny Kadre, Esq., chairman and CEO of MBB Auto Group; Jayne Sylvester Malfitano, president and secretary of the Harcourt M. and Virginia W. Sylvester Foundation; Stuart A. Miller, executive chairman and former CEO of Lennar Corporation; Peter Slavin, M.D., president of Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School; and M. Roy Wilson, M.D., president of Wayne State University.
Ex-Officio Members are Richard D. 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 CEO of UHealth.
