Marschall S. Runge, MD, PhD

Marschall S. Runge, MD, PhD, is executive dean and chair of the Department of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, where he is instrumental in guiding the academic and clinical leadership of the School of Medicine and the UNC Health Care System. He is also principal investigator and director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill, one of fifty-five medical research institutions across the country funded by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards. An honors graduate of Vanderbilt University with a BA in biology and a PhD in molecular biology, Dr. Runge earned his MD 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.