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New Member Named to University Health System Inc. Board of Directors

Published: Friday, October 5, 2007

New leadership appointments also made during third-quarter board meeting


Bernard E. Bernstein, chairman of the University Health System, Inc. (UHS) board of directors, and his fellow board members unanimously voted to appoint Carolyn Fairbank Biggs as the newest member of the prestigious entity. The 15-member board of directors serves as governing body of The University of Tennessee Medical Center.

Additional appointments made at the September board meeting include the following.

 

• Renda Burkhart, vice chair of board of directors
• Sara Rose, secretary and treasurer of board of directors, UHS Executive Committee
• Dr. J. Russell Langdon, co-chair of Performance Improvement Advisory Board

 

The new appointments take effect immediately. Fairbank Biggs’ first meeting as a board member is set for the board of directors’ scheduled meeting in December.

Other members of the distinguished body include Michael Blackwell, Sylvia S. Davis, Dr. Robert Elder, Dr. Michael Freeman, James A. Haslam, II, Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, Joseph R. Landsman, Jr., Dr. Pat Wall, Dr. John Petersen and H.W. ‘Bud’ Sherrod, Jr.

University Health System, Inc. operates The University of Tennessee Medical Center, East Tennessee’s largest and most comprehensive medical center and the region’s only academic medical center. UT Medical Center consists of the University of Tennessee Memorial Hospital, the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine and the UT College of Pharmacy as well as various partnerships, joint ventures and affiliations with physicians, healthcare companies and regional hospitals. It is through this strategically planned expansive network of agreements with health providers, researchers and educators throughout the region, coupled with the hard work, knowledge and determination of the employees and medical staff, that UT Medical Center is able to fulfill its mission of improving the quality of life for those it serves through leadership in patient care, medical education and clinical research.

The University of Tennessee Medical Center is a 581-bed, not-for-profit academic medical center, which serves as a referral center for Eastern Tennessee, Southeast Kentucky and Western North Carolina. The medical center, the region’s only Level I Trauma Center, is one of the largest employers in Knoxville. For more information about the University of Tennessee Medical Center, visit online at www.utmedicalcenter.org.