Dr. S. Wright Caughman has been named Emory University’s executive vice president for health affairs, CEO of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and chairman of the board for Emory Healthcare.

The appointments are effective July 1.

Caughman joined the Emory School of Medicine faculty in 1990 after serving in the dermatology branch of the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

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