Leadership updates

A sampling of recent major achievements and developments from UC Davis Health and the UC Davis School of Medicine. For more listings and news, please visit our newsroom and follow us on social media.

Leadership transition at UC Davis Health

UC Davis Chancellor May announces three leadership appointments

UC Davis Health CEO and Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences David Lubarsky, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.S.A., has retired effective Feb. 15, 2025, and has become president and CEO of Westchester Medical Center Health Network. The nine-hospital health system is located near where Lubarsky grew up, in Valhalla, New York.

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May, Ph.D., has made three UC Davis Health leadership appointments: Michael Condrin, M.B.A., as the interim chief executive officer (CEO); Bruce Lee Hall, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., as interim vice chancellor of human health sciences; and Susan Murin, M.D., M.Sc., M.B.A., as permanent dean of the School of Medicine.

Condrin and Hall began their interim roles Feb. 15, 2025, reporting to May. Murin’s appointment is effective from Jan. 1, 2025 through June 2026, reporting to Hall.

“I’m very pleased to have these strong leaders in place on our Sacramento campus to continue driving forward our strategic goals,” May said in January. “Mike, Bruce and Susan bring significant experience that will further position UC Davis Health for success as our health enterprise grows to deliver the best patient care, education and research in the region.”

Transformational change

Lubarsky led UC Davis Health since July 2018. During his tenure, the organization increased the number of patients by more than 60%, increased and diversified faculty and staff, and made UC Davis Health an employer of choice on national lists of best places to work.

Under Lubarsky’s leadership, UC Davis Health has become one of the nation’s top health systems for patient outcomes (and always near the top nationally for reduced mortality), and launched a transformational change of its facilities to better care for even more patients. He was named as one of the “top academic CEOs to know” by Becker’s Hospital Review in December. Lubarsky also focused on restoring community trust in UC Davis Health and demonstrated the university’s commitment to improving care for all people.

“We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Lubarsky for his visionary leadership as well as his numerous contributions to advancing our mission of innovation, excellence and outstanding service,” May said. “We wish him well in the next chapter of his distinguished career.”

While the longer-term UC Davis Health leadership structure has not yet been finalized, Chancellor May anticipated beginning a national search for at least one of the positions in early spring.

Interim Vice Chancellor:
Bruce Hall, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.

Hall will have responsibility for the strategic direction of UC Davis Health, including oversight of the UC Davis School of Medicine and Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. He will participate in campus-wide policy development and strategic implementation through membership on the Chancellor’s Leadership Council and the Council of Deans and Vice Chancellors.

Hall joined UC Davis in 2024 as chief clinical officer, responsible for oversight of all clinical operations. His previous role was at Washington University and BJC HealthCare in St. Louis, where he served as professor of surgery and as the nonprofit system’s chief medical officer. His areas of expertise include performance measurement, quality improvement and facilitating change. For more than a decade, he taught health care economics and management courses, and guest lectured on topics including health care economics, insurance theory, health policy, health care management and industry change.

Interim CEO:
Mike Condrin, M.B.A.

As interim CEO, Condrin will establish short-term and long-range strategic and business goals and objectives, monitor financial performance, oversee hospital and clinical operations, and ensure UC Davis Health provides high-quality care.

Condrin has over 20 years of experience as a university health care executive with progressive responsibility in ambulatory care operations, strategic planning, financial management, physician partnership and personnel leadership within the University of California. He began his career at UC Davis in 2002 and has served in a variety of administrative roles, including director of clinical operations and co-leader of ambulatory strategy and operations. Most recently he served as chief operating officer of UC Davis Medical Center.

School of Medicine Dean:
Susan Murin, M.D., M.Sc., M.B.A.

Murin served as interim dean starting in November 2021 and is a professor and clinician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Under her leadership, the School of Medicine achieved a full eight-year Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation. She launched several critical initiatives to achieve efficiency, consistency and equity, as well as year-over-year historic highs in research funding.

Murin has held numerous leadership positions throughout her 29-year tenure at UC Davis Health. Previously, she was vice dean for clinical affairs and executive director of the UC Davis Medical Group.

Barleben named Aortic Center director

Andrew R. Barleben, M.D., M.P.H., a renowned vascular surgeon and researcher, is the new director of the Aortic Center. The multidisciplinary program housed in the UC Davis Vascular Center provides a full range of medical and surgical treatments for complex aortic diseases such as aneurysms, dissections and genetic disorders.
Dall’Era permanent chair of Urologic Surgery

Marc Dall’Era, M.D., professor of clinical urology, has been appointed permanent chair of the Department of Urologic Surgery. Dall’Era has been the interim chair since Sept. 2023. Dall’Era specializes in the management of urinary tract cancers. His research interests include using MRI imaging to detect and evaluate prostate cancer. His focus also includes biomarker discovery and validation in cancer patients. He is a principal investigator on several clinical trials, including those for men with high-risk prostate cancer and has pioneered focal therapy of early-stage disease.
New Women in Medicine and Health Sciences leaders

Bryn Mumma, M.D., M.A.S., has been appointed director and Catherine Cansino, M.D., M.P.H., associate director of UC Davis Women in Medicine and Health Sciences (WIMHS). The program works to advance participation and success of women in all roles within academic medicine.

Mumma is a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and recently served as chair of the Society for the Academic Emergency Medicine Grants Committee and Bylaws Committee, and chairs the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Emergency Medicine Research Committee. Cansino is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She chairs an Obstetrics and Gynecology Inclusion, Diversity, Antiracism and Equity Task Force, and is department director of faculty development and assistant residency program director.
Center for Mind and Brain co-directors appointed

UC Davis appointed Ron Mangun, Ph.D., and Amanda Guyer, Ph.D., co-directors of the Center for Mind and Brain, which they will lead for the next three years.

The interdisciplinary research center studies the human mind and how the brain gives rise to it, with faculty affiliates from departments across campus including neurology, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, human development and the School of Medicine. Each of the center’s 21 research labs is grant funded.

Mangun, a distinguished professor of psychology and neurology, founded CMB in 2002, and this year marks the end of his most recent five-year term. Guyer, a professor of human ecology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has served as CMB associate director since 2017.
New executives join Cancer Center, ambulatory services

Christina Mintner, M.S., has joined UC Davis Health as the Senior Vice President, Associate Chief Operating Officer (ACOO) for ambulatory care services. Mintner brings extensive leadership experience in ambulatory care and population health, most recently serving as Senior Vice President of Population Health & HOMES at Parkland Health in Dallas.

Andrew Bresnahan, M.S.N., R.N., N.E.A.-B.C., has joined UC Davis Health as executive director of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and Cell and Gene Therapy. Bresnahan brings more than 15 years of progressive leadership experience, most recently serving as the director of oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Becker’s C-suite honors for Galante, Kenber

Joseph Galante, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S., the Hospital Chief Medical Officer for UC Davis Health, has been named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s “Chief Medical Officers to Know” list for 2025. Tammy Kenber, M.S., Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for UC Davis and UC Davis Health, has been recognized by Becker’s as among the “99 hospital and health system CHROs and chief people officers to know” for 2025.