UMMS Selects Leader with Nearly Three Decades of Medical and Health Care Advancement Experience To Coordinate Philanthropic Efforts

Following a nationwide search, the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) has named Christine Andrews, CPA, a veteran of nearly 30 years in medical and health care advancement, as the System's first-ever Vice President for Philanthropy Shared Services.

In the newly-created position, Andrews will streamline the System's approach to transformational giving, allowing donors to support large-scale projects that improve health care throughout Maryland while furthering the System's mission. She will collaborate with chief development officers across the System's member organizations to create a collaborative model in support of philanthropic operations and the System's strategic priorities.

"Christine has helped shape the strategic direction for multiple health care organizations across her career and we are excited about the tremendous opportunity for her to fill this new position and build opportunities across the System," said Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, President and CEO of UMMS.

Andrews comes to UMMS from Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire and Vermont, where she unified six diverse member institutions into a centralized framework, doubling their five-year fundraising average. Prior, at Hackensack Meridian Health Network in New Jersey, she led a 20-person team and established new donor pipeline tracking systems and a forecasting system for major gifts, and also helped shape the strategic direction at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.

"UMMS is a mission-driven institution with a long tradition of excellence and I look forward to working with member organizations and philanthropic partners to help meet the future health care needs of Marylanders," Andrews said.

About the University of Maryland Medical System

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.