Andrew Chuma Agwunobi was born on 1965 and is an American physician and administrator.
15 Facts About Andrew Agwunobi
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Andrew Agwunobi was the CEO for UConn Health from 2014 to 2022 and became interim president of the University of Connecticut starting on May 19,2021.
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Andrew Agwunobi was the first non-white to be UConn president.
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On January 14,2022, Agwunobi announced his resignation as interim president of UConn and CEO of UConn Health to work for Humana.
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Andrew Agwunobi was born in Scotland in 1965 and raised in rural Scotland and Nigeria.
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Andrew Agwunobi's father, Titus Chukwuma Agwunobi, a surgeon, was an Igbo from Nigeria.
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Andrew Agwunobi has held various executive positions in healthcare administration, including chief executive officer of the Grady Health System in Atlanta, president and CEO of the Tenet South Fulton Hospital in East Point, secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, and CEO of Providence Healthcare in Spokane.
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Andrew Agwunobi was a managing director of Berkeley Research Group and chief operating officer of the St Joseph Health System in California.
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Andrew Agwunobi has practiced medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
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In November 2014, Andrew Agwunobi became interim CEO at UConn Health.
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Andrew Agwunobi became permanent CEO and executive vice president for health affairs in 2015.
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In 2018, state auditors faulted his approval of salary raises for UConn employees who signed off on a $563,000 contract with Berkeley Research Group, a consulting firm for which Andrew Agwunobi worked before he took over as interim CEO.
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Andrew Agwunobi remained in his position as UConn Health CEO while president.
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Andrew Agwunobi formerly was assistant secretary for health for the US Department of Health and Human Services and secretary of the Florida Department of Health under Republican administrations.
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Andrew Agwunobi is married to Elizabeth Nega, an Ethiopian-born physician of internal medicine.