New CEO starts today at Michigan Medicine

ANN ARBOR – David C. Miller, a nearly-lifelong Michigan resident, urologic surgeon and experienced clinical leader, starts today as the chief executive officer of Michigan Medicine and executive vice president for Medical Affairs at the University of Michigan.

Michigan Medicine is the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, which includes the clinical division of U-M Health, the U-M Medical School and the medical research enterprise.

Miller, M.D., M.P.H., takes on the role from Marschall S. Runge, M.D., Ph.D., who retired on June 30 from the CEO role but remains on faculty as U-M Medical School dean. Miller’s appointment was approved by the U-M Board of Regents in September 2024. 

Miller has served as president of U-M Health since January 2021. In this leadership role, Miller has focused on improving both operational and patient care outcomes, including expanding access to care, reducing patient harm and delivering and discovering breakthrough treatments. Miller has led and championed the organization’s BASE strategic priorities, which include belonging; access; safety and quality; experience for patients and team members; and strategic growth and partnership. 

During his tenure as president, U-M Health grew into an $8.5 billion clinical enterprise. This expansion of U-M Health’s statewide network included growth of the both the academic medical center in southeast Michigan, as well as at UM Health-Sparrow and UM Health-West.

Miller has also served as executive vice dean for clinical affairs and led the system’s caregiving teams as they emerged from the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I am deeply grateful for this opportunity and for the leadership of Dr. Marschall Runge during the last decade,” said Miller, who started his surgical career at Michigan Medicine.

“I have had the great privilege of holding several roles with Michigan Medicine over the last 17 years, and I am honored today to start this new one – leading Michigan Medicine in its mission to advance health in Michigan and the world.

“At Michigan Medicine, we will remain focused on the health of our state by expanding access to our expertise in clinical care. At the same time, and as importantly, we are educating a new generation of physicians, health care professionals and scientists, and supporting research and innovation that makes a difference in the health of the world. I am truly grateful to work alongside the teams doing this impactful, important work.”

Miller grew up in Midland, Mich. and received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan. After completing medical school at Washington University and fellowship training at UCLA, he returned to Michigan Medicine where he continues to care for patients.

Miller has been a strong advocate for increasing access to the care, education, research, and innovation that Michigan Medicine provides. 

Among those efforts are the recently opened new Ypsilanti Health Center, located at 300 W. Michigan Avenue in downtown Ypsilanti. The center has 50,000 square feet on three different floors, including family medicine, geriatrics, urology, behavioral health, cardiology, dermatology, ophthalmology, endocrinology and women’s health, as well as an adolescent behavioral health day treatment clinic.

A new hospital in Ann Arbor, The D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion, is set to open this fall. Plans also are underway for a new facility in Troy, Mich. 

 The new 12-story pavilion in Ann Arbor will house 264 private rooms capable of converting to intensive care, a state-of-the-art neurological and neurosurgical center, high-level specialty care services for cardiovascular and thoracic patients and advanced imaging services. 

U-M Health also plans a new multi-specialty facility in Troy, Mich. set to open in 2027. The 224,000-square-foot, four-story building is expected to house a multi-specialty facility with diagnostic and therapeutic services as well as a surgery and procedures center. 

With the combined AMC and regional network, U-M Health now has 11 acute care hospitals, 2,200 licensed beds, 5,700 providers, 2,400 physicians in training and 190 ambulatory care sites across the state. 

“Across our research, education and clinical enterprises, our teams are changing lives, communities and our industry. We are expanding access to intensive mental health care for young people, breaking transplant records, celebrating 175 years of shaping the future of medical education through U-M Medical School,  developing groundbreaking, cancer-destroying therapies like histotripsy, and so much more,” Miller said. 

“Looking to the future, we will continue to challenge ourselves to lead innovation across all aspects of our tripartite mission: education, research and clinical care.”

About Michigan Medicine: At Michigan Medicine, we advance health to serve Michigan and the world. We pursue excellence every day in our 11 hospitals and hundreds of clinics statewide, as well as educate the next generation of physicians, health professionals and scientists in our U-M Medical School.

Michigan Medicine includes the U-M Medical School. And University of Michigan Health, which includes the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, University Hospital, the Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan Health-West, University of Michigan-Sparrow and the Rogel Cancer Center. The U-M Medical School is one of the nation’s biomedical research powerhouses, with total research funding of more than $777 million.

More information is available at www.michiganmedicine.org. 

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