The University of Miami Board of Trustees has unanimously selected Dr. Dipen J. Parekh as the next Chief Executive Officer of UHealth, as well as Executive Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Miami. Dr. Parekh, a globally renowned urologic oncologist, healthcare innovator, and leader in academic medicine has served as the Chief Operating Officer of the University of Miami Health System since 2020, and alongside University of Miami President Joseph J. Echevarria jointly engineered UHealth’s dramatic turnaround over the last five years.

While serving as Chief Operating Officer of UHealth, in 2021 Dr. Parekh was named Executive Dean for Clinical Affairs at the Miller School of Medicine, where he has worked to build synergy between the academic and clinical missions at the University of Miami. He is laser-focused on ensuring UHealth becomes a leader in developing and deploying emerging and effective treatments to improve wellbeing in Miami and beyond. His success has been nationally recognized, with Becker’s Hospital Review naming him among the top 60 academic health system COOs to know in 2024.

Having joined the institution in 2012 as Chair of the Department of Urology, Dr. Parekh’s first system-wide administrative role was as Chief Clinical Officer from 2017-2020. He is also an endowed professor of urology and the founding director of the Desai Sethi Urology Institute.