Kenneth R. White PhD, AGACNP-BC, ACHPN, FACHE, FAAN

Ken White, Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships and Innovation, holds the University of Virginia Medical Center Professorship in Nursing with joint appointments in the McIntire School of Commerce, the Darden School of Business, and UVA School of Medicine. With more than forty years of experience in healthcare organizations in clinical, administrative, governance, and consulting capacities, Dr. White spent 13 with Mercy Health Services as senior executive in marketing, operations, and international healthcare consulting before pivoting into academia. Between 1995 and 2001, he served as the associate director of the MHA and MSHA programs at Virginia Commonwealth University, and from 2001 to 2008, as the director of VCU's MHA program. White was the inaugural Charles P. Cardwell, Jr., Professor of Health Administration at VCU between 2006 and 2008, and was named the inaugural Sentara Healthcare Professor in 2012, before arriving at the University of Virginia in mid-2013.