Progress
Our objectives and tactics lay out the steps we’re taking to drive progress. Each year, we will review our approach and launch new initiatives to ensure we’re responding to changing conditions and taking advantage of new opportunities. Each tactic is influenced by our core beliefs:
- Reputation: Strengthening our reputation as a global research university
- Rochester: Contributing to and benefiting from a just and vibrant city of Rochester and the Rochester Region
- DEIAJ: Furthering our commitment to actionable and accountable growth in diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice.
Here are the tactics for the first year of our strategic plan (FY23–24).
Reinforce our position as a national referral center for highly specialized care and upstate New York’s health system of choice.
tactics
Leads:
- Mike Chihoski
Senior Associate Vice President, Facilities and Services - Amber Foster
Executive Director of Space Planning and Real Estate Services
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester
Lead:
- Vicky Hines
Chief Operating Officer, UR Medical Faculty Group
Key collaborator:
- John Clark
Chief Administrative Officer, Primary Care
Core beliefs: Community; DEIAJ
Lead:
- Vicky Hines
Chief Operating Officer, UR Medical Faculty Group
Key collaborator:
- Yvette Tehan
Senior Director, Ambulatory Care
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester
Lead:
- Steve Goldstein
Vice President, University of Rochester Medical Center, and President and CEO of Strong Memorial Hospital and Highland Hospital
Key collaborators:
- Ryan Gilmartin, UR Medicine Geriatrics
- Kathy Parrinello, Chief Operating Officer, Strong Memorial
- Kelly Luther, Social Work
- Justin Hopkin, Chief, Hospital Medicine
- Irena Boyce, Senior Director, Quality Institute
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester
Lead:
- David Linehan
University of Rochester Medical Center CEO, Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
Key collaborators:
- Senior leaders, University of Rochester Medical Center
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester
Lead:
- Eli Eliav
Director of Eastman Institute for Oral Health
Key collaborator:
- Holly Barone
Chief Operations Officer, University of Rochester Medical Center
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
Lead:
- Wendy Parisi
Director, Health Equity Program Support Officer
Core beliefs: Rochester; DEIAJ
Launch nimble, transdisciplinary centers for scholarly domains where we can be most consequential.
tactics
Lead:
- Jonathan Friedberg
Director, Wilmot Cancer Institute
Key collaborator:
- Brian Martin
Associate Director for Administration and Finance
Core beliefs: Reputation
Leads:
- Paige Lawrence
Director, Institute for Human Health and the Environment - Annie Medina-Walpole
Director, University of Rochester Aging Institute
Key collaborators:
- Hucky Land, Wilmot Cancer Institute
- Paula Vertino, Wilmot Cancer Institute
- Vera Gorbunova, Professor of Biology and Co-director, Rochester Aging Research Center
Core beliefs: Reputation
Lead:
- Sally Norton
Associate Dean for Research, School of Nursing
Key collaborators:
- Lisa Kitko
Dean, School of Nursing - Jonathan Friedberg
Director, Wilmot Cancer Institute
Core beliefs: Reputation
Leads:
- Mike Chihoski
Senior Associate Vice President, Facilities and Services - Amber Foster
Executive Director of Space Planning and Real Estate Services
Key collaborator:
- Simmone Washington
Associate Dean, Senior Director Operations
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester
Lead:
- Martin Zand
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research
Key collaborators:
- Christopher Palma
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology - Mike Ritz
Research Compliance Officer - Jane Tolbert
Chief of Staff, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester
Lead:
- Edith Williams
Director, Office of Health Equity Research
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
Lead:
- Martin Zand
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research
Key collaborators:
- Paula Vertino
Senior Associate Dean for Basic Research - Rick Libby
Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs - Advancement and Alumni Relations
Core beliefs: Reputation
Strengthen our position as a preeminent educational institution emphasizing innovation in biomedical education, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and affordability.
tactics
Leads:
- David Linehan
University of Rochester Medical Center CEO, Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences - Lisa Kitko
Dean, School of Nursing
Key collaborator
- Adrienne Morgan
Vice President, Institutional Office for Equity and Inclusion, and Chief Diversity Officer
Core beliefs: DEIAJ
Lead:
- Lisa Kitko
Dean, School of Nursing
Key collaborator:
Lydia Rotondo
Associate Dean, Education and Student Affairs, School of Nursing
Core beliefs: Rochester; DEIAJ
Lead:
- Eli Eliav
Director, Eastman Institute for Oral Health
Key collaborator:
- Holly Barone
Chief Operations Officer, Eastman Institute for Oral Health
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
- David Linehan
University of Rochester Medical Center CEO, Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
Core beliefs: Reputation
Be the preferred destination for faculty, staff, learners, and patients regardless of race, gender, gender identity or expression, or other aspects of identity.
tactics
Lead:
- Michael Rotondo
Chief Executive Officer, UR Medical Faculty Group
Key collaborator:
- Kathy Gallucci
Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
Teach graduate medical education learners to address inequalities in care within their own practices
Lead:
- Theresa Green
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences
Key collaborator:
- Diane Hartmann
Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
Lead:
- Michael Rotondo
Chief Executive Officer, UR Medical Faculty Group
Key collaborators:
- Kathy Parrinello
Chief Operating Officer, Strong Memorial Hospital - Wendy Parisi
Director, Health Equity Program Support Officer - Michael Apostolakos
Chief Medical Officer, Strong Memorial Hospital
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
Lead:
- Kathy Gallucci
Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Key collaborator:
- Stephanie VonBacho
Senior Director, Learning and Development
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
Lead:
- Julia Green
Associate Vice President of Civil Rights and Compliance
Key collaborator:
- Adrienne Morgan
Vice President, Institutional Office for Equity and Inclusion, and Chief Diversity Officer
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
Lead:
- Erin Duecy
Associate Vice President, Center for Gender Equity
Key collaborator:
- Adrienne Morgan
Vice President, Institutional Office for Equity and Inclusion, and Chief Diversity Officer
Core beliefs: Reputation; Rochester; DEIAJ
Generate financial resources to thrive and enable support of URMC and UR strategic plans.
tactics
Leads:
- Karen Keady
Chief Nursing Officer, University of Rochester Medical Center - Kathy Parrinello
Chief Operating Officer, Strong Memorial Hospital
Key collaborators:
- Kathy Gallucci
Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer - Stephanie VonBacho
Senior Director, Learning and Development
Core beliefs: Rochester
Lead:
- Curt Haas
Director of Pharmacy
Key collaborator:
- Adam Anolik
Chief Financial Officer, University of Rochester Medical Center
Core beliefs: Reputation
Leads:
- Carrie Fuller-Spencer
Chief Financial Officer, Strong Memorial Hospital - Marc Cohen
Chief Financial Officer, UR Medical Faculty Group
Core beliefs: Reputation
Lead:
- Adam Anolik
Chief Financial Officer, University of Rochester Medical Center
Key collaborator:
- David Linehan
University of Rochester Medical Center CEO, Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
Core beliefs: Reputation
Lead:
- Adam Anolik
Chief Financial Officer, University of Rochester Medical Center
Key collaborator:
- Jonathan Friedberg
Director, Wilmot Cancer Institute
Core beliefs: Reputation
Progress on additional goals
Each goal has objectives and tactics that will lead the University into a future with Boundless Possibility.