Dr. Mark Newman, Owensboro native, taking over at UK HealthCare from Dr. Michael Karpf, who will remain an adviser

Dr. Mark Newman

The University of Kentucky has a new hospital leader. Dr. Mark Newman succeeds Dr. Michael Karpf as executive vice president for health affairs.

Newman, an anesthesiologist, has been president of Private Diagnostic Clinic, the physician practice plan for Duke University’s Medical Center, since 2014. A native of Owensboro, he has been at Duke since 1992.

"Newman grew up in Kentucky as part of a farm family with a strong focus on education," a UK news release said. "He stayed close to home to attend Western Kentucky University to help his family while his father was ill, and began running the family farm after his father passed away." Getting an Air Force scholarship to the University of Louisville medical school, he completed a residency in the Air Force and a fellowship at Duke University Medical Center before returning to active duty. He was deployed for the invasions of Panama, Kuwait and Iraq.

“I will be helping lead one of the nation’s renowned institutions of higher learning, research and clinical care as well as returning to my home state,” Newman said in the release. “The last decade has seen UK HealthCare evolve into a system with the focus and the flexibility to grow and build on its reputation while advancing the health- and patient-care opportunities for people throughout the commonwealth, and I look forward to being part of its continued success.”

Karpf "will continue making his $900,000 salary for the next year as he advises UK President Eli Capilouto on state and federal health care issues," Linda Blackford reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader. "Under Karpf’s 13 years of leadership, UK HealthCare invested almost $2 billion in new facilities, faculty, programs and technology, as well as forging new partnerships with regional health care institutions and expanding the College of Medicine to satellite locations around the state. Capilouto has frequently said Karpf oversaw the greatest success story in academic health center history, a statement he repeated at the UK Board of Trustees meeting Friday," Sept. 15.

"After Karpf’s year of advising concludes, he will make $200,000 a year as a part-time faculty member in the College of Medicine, conducting policy research," Blackford reports. "Karpf’s eventual part-time salary was calculated by taking 50 percent of the salary earned by medical professors who are at the 75th percentile of pay in the Association of American Medical Colleges survey."

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