The University of Michigan Medical School and Michigan Medicine will be under new management this time next year.
Marschall Runge, CEO of Michigan Medicine and dean of the University of Michigan Medical School, plans to retire at the end of his current contract June 30, 2025.
The Ann Arbor-based health system announced the news in a press release earlier this month.
He will remain with the university as a professor in the medical school.
According to the release, a replacement has not yet been named, but a search for a new leader of the system will begin in the coming weeks.
Runge, who celebrated his 70th birthday this month, has been with Michigan Medicine since his appointment as CEO and and executive vice president for medical affairs at U-M in 2015. He’s been dean of the medical school since 2016.
“It has been an honor to work with, and on behalf of, our patients, faculty, staff, learners and supporters,” Runge said in a press release. “We have evolved as an increasingly high-functioning, coordinated, innovative and inclusive organization that is one of the most respected academic medical centers in the world. This would not have been possible without the concerted efforts of our entire community.”
U-M President Santa Ono told faculty in an email that Rungw “elevated the health system and the medical school in profound and lasting ways.”
“He has been a visionary leader who is forward thinking, strategic and committed to academic and clinical excellence,” Ono said in the email to faculty. “He helped guide the health system through a number of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, during which Michigan Medicine served as a statewide resource for the most critical patients. As he steps down, he most certainly leaves a legacy of strengthening our mission and building upon Michigan Medicine’s strong foundation.” Before coming to U-M, Runge spent 15 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, and got his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
