Primary Job Title Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs Primary Organization University of Michigan
Gender Male
Marschall S. Runge, M.D., Ph.D., is executive vice president for Medical Affairs at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the University of Michigan in March 2015, he was executive dean and chair of the Department of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, where he was instrumental in guiding the academic and clinical leadership of the
School of Medicine and the UNC Health Care System. He was also principal investigator and director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was elected to the board of directors of Eli Lilly and Company in 2013.
An honors graduate of Vanderbilt University with a bachelor of arts in in biology and a doctorate in molecular biology, Dr. Runge earned his doctor of medicine degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he was an intern and resident in internal medicine. He then completed a cardiology fellowship at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital and was a faculty member there prior to becoming an associate professor of medicine at Emory University in 1989.
Before joining the UNC faculty in 2000, Dr. Runge held the John Sealy Distinguished Centennial Chair in Internal Medicine and was director of the Division of Cardiology and the Sealy Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
