VCU names Arturo P. Saavedra dean of VCU School of Medicine and VCU Health executive VP for medical affairs - VCU News

By Mike Porter

Virginia Commonwealth University contiguous announced that Arturo P. Saavedra, M.D., Ph.D., has been named dean of the VCU School of Medicine, effectual April 15. He besides volition service arsenic VCU Health System enforcement vice president for aesculapian affairs. 

Saavedra comes to VCU from the University of Virginia wherever helium is seat of the Department of Dermatology and president and interim main enforcement serviceman of University of Virginia Physicians Group. In these roles, Saavedra partners with different leaders to thrust continuous betterment successful the prime and worth of attraction successful summation to mounting strategy and ensuring operational and fiscal show of the physicians’ group. His assignment follows a nationalist search.

Prior to his existent roles, Saavedra served arsenic main of colonisation wellness and wellness argumentation of University of Virginia Health System and arsenic main of ambulatory strategy and operations for the aesculapian center. He was besides liable for ensuring that UVA Health is responsive to local, determination and nationalist wellness needs and policy.

Saavedra has extended acquisition successful world medicine and administrative leadership. As a clinician and researcher, Saavedra specializes successful the attraction of analyzable aesculapian dermatology, with peculiar involvement successful HIV dermatology, terrible cause reactions that manifest with dermatologic complications, and attraction of oncologic and post-transplant patients.

“I americium pleased to invited Dr. Saavedra to VCU and our School of Medicine,” said Michael Rao, Ph.D., president of VCU and VCU Health. “Dr. Saavedra shares our committedness to enactment the needs of students and patients first. His enactment astatine UVA demonstrates a heavy knowing of aesculapian attraction and of wellness argumentation astatine each level, experiences that volition beryllium invaluable arsenic helium leads our enactment to amended the adjacent generations of physicians and probe scientists.”

Marlon Levy, M.D., VCU Health Sciences interim elder vice president and VCU Health System interim CEO, said Saavedra is simply a highly regarded and results-oriented doc person who volition bring unparalleled passionateness and vigor to VCU and the communities it serves.

“With his extent of knowledge, bold reasoning and strategical vision, I americium assured his enactment volition elevate the school’s distinguished research, objective and acquisition missions,” Levy said.

Saavedra is besides the elder exertion of Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, the astir wide work dermatology atlas for diagnosis and attraction of tegument conditions.

“I americium precise impressed by VCU’s unwavering committedness to its ngo and by its citizenship,” Saavedra said. “I can’t hold to beryllium portion of this large university, to larn and turn with it, and to make beardown partnerships successful advancing each goals of the School of Medicine.”

Saavedra graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a grade successful biologic sciences. He past received combined aesculapian and doctoral degrees from University of Pennsylvania with specialized grooming successful pharmacology. After completing residency grooming successful interior medicine astatine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, wherever helium was selected to beryllium main aesculapian resident, Saavedra graduated from the Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency Training Program and completed his fellowship successful dermatopathology.

Saavedra replaces David Chelmow, who has served arsenic interim dean since the opening of 2022.