Professor
Ophthalmology
West Virginia University
United States of America
Judie F. Charlton, M.D., has been appointed chief medical officer (CMO) of WVU Healthcare and vice dean for clinical affairs of the WVU School of Medicine. Dr. Charlton has been serving as interim CMO since shortly after the creation of WVU Healthcare in 2010. The appointment was made jointly by Dean Arthur Ross, M.D., M.B.A., of the school and Bruce McClymonds, president and CEO of WVU Hospitals. The role of the chief medical officer is to serve as the primary physician executive in WVU Healthcare, which manages WVU-affiliated hospitals and medical practices in the Morgantown area. Charlton, an ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma, is a native of Fairmont, W.Va. She graduated from the WVU School of Pharmacy in 1981, the WVU School of Medicine in 1985 and completed postgraduate training at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh and at WVU. She joined the faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology in 1989 and has been its chair since 2008.
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