Nancy Howell Agee is President and CEO of Carilion Clinic, a $2.4 billion not-for-profit health care system headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia; serving over 1 million people in Virginia and West Virginia.  Carilion Clinic includes seven hospitals ranging from a large, tertiary/quaternary medical center, Level 1 Trauma Center and teaching hospital to a Children’s Hospital to midsized community hospitals to small rural or critical access hospitals. Carilion also operates complementary business lines, including home health, imaging services, pharmacies, urgent care and free-standing surgical clinics and has a large physician group with more than 1,000 employed physicians.

Ms. Agee served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer before becoming CEO.  She co-led Carilion’s transformation from a collection of hospitals to a patient-centered, physician-led organization.  The reorganization included a public/private partnership with Virginia Tech to create an allopathic medical school and a research institute.

Ms. Agee is a nationally recognized leader in healthcare and past chair of the American Hospital Association (a membership organization representing the nation’s 5000 hospitals). Modern Healthcare named her one of 2021’s Women Leaders Luminaries that recognizes executives whose careers have been defined by reshaping the industry. She was first named to Modern Healthcare’s biennial list of Top 25 Women Leaders in 2017 and is perennially among its 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. She is a former member of The Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners and past Chair of the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association and the Virginia Center for Health Innovation.

Ms. Agee was named Virginia Business Person of the year in 2017 by Virginia Business and has been on the list of most influential persons in Virginia for the past ten years.  Ms. Agee serves on several boards including American National Bank & Trust, (NASDAQ:AMNB), RGC Resources, Inc., (NASDAQ:RGCO) and Healthcare Realty:(NYSE:HR).  She is a member of The Wall Street Journal Council of CEOs, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, Virginia Business Council, Virginia Business Higher Education Council and on the Governor’s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates.  She is a Fellow in the National Association of Corporate Directors. In January 2022, Ms. Agee was selected by newly inaugurated Governor Glenn Youngkin to serve on his Medical Advisory Team.

Bio updated June 2022

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