Leadership Perspectives Archive — Page 1 of 9

Jane Freedman stands on a studio set, speaking beside a display that reads “Thank you, Dr. Jeff Balser, Dean and CEO” and shows his portrait; Vanderbilt Health branding appears at the bottom.
October 29, 2026

Leadership Forum looks ahead to new CEO, wider access and a 2040 pediatric vision

From an Acute Care Center that hit its six-month goal in a week, to a vision for pediatric care taking Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt into the year 2040, leaders describe a future for Vanderbilt Health that will reach more patients and families, in more places.

By Holly Fletcher
Aerial view of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and surrounding Vanderbilt University campus buildings in Nashville, with wooded hills and city neighborhoods in the background.
October 27, 2026

Sara J. Finley to succeed Edie Carell Johnson as Chair of Vanderbilt Health Board of Directors

Vanderbilt Health’s Board of Directors is the organization’s fiduciary board that provides oversight and counsel to help the Medical Center achieve its business and organizational goals.

By John Howser
Juan C. Salazar, MD, MPH, speaks at a lectern to an audience, gesturing with both hands between two computer monitors.
September 24, 2026

Building on momentum: Juan Salazar outlines future of Pediatrics in annual address

The address highlighted the department’s continued growth and successes across several mission-critical priorities: people, clinical care, education, research and discovery, and community engagement and advocacy.

By Christina Echegaray
Two attendees pose beside an International Society for Engineering Health sign promoting the First Annual Summit, “Engineering the Elimination of Diseases,” scheduled for September 16–18, 2025, at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The man holds a publication.
September 23, 2026

Vanderbilt Health leaders advance a collaborative agenda to engineer the elimination of targeted diseases

Vanderbilt’s clinical, academic, and health-system perspective was applied to a central question: How can promising technologies be translated into better outcomes for patients and communities?

August 4, 2026

Research that reaches patients: A conversation with Wesley Self and Jill Pulley

Research and art both approach the world with a fresh perspective. This art gallery features work by undergraduate student artists who participated in the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation Artist-in-Residence (VI4-AiR) program. Supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the VI4-AiR program brings together scientists and artists to create and promote art as a visual science communication tool.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a smiling man wearing black rectangular glasses, a dark jacket, and a checked shirt against a softly blurred background.
July 15, 2026

University of Michigan’s David C. Miller chosen to succeed Jeff Balser as Vanderbilt Health’s President and CEO and Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Miller’s selection as the new senior leader for Vanderbilt Health and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine finalizes an extensive national search by the VH Board of Directors to identify Balser’s successor.  

By John Howser