At the MCV Foundation Board of Trustees meeting in June, members elected four new trustees who bring energy and enthusiasm to the foundation’s important work. Additionally, the VCU Health System Authority Board of Directors designated a new ex officio trustee to serve on the foundation’s board.
The foundation welcomes these new trustees and looks forward to creating lasting relationships that benefit patients, providers and the greater community for years to come.
Robert Findling, MD, is an MCV Campus alumnus and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the VCU School of Medicine, as well as interim medical director of the Virginia Treatment Center for Children and interim chair of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Findling serves as the ex officio representative from the VCU Health System Board of Directors.
After completing his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Findling attended VCU School of Medicine, followed by a training program spanning pediatrics, psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital. He later earned his MBA through a joint program run by the London School of Economics, NYU Stern and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris.
Dr. Findling returned to VCU in 2020. A noted clinical researcher, he’s studied pediatric psychopharmacology and serious psychiatric disorders in young children.
Being in academic medicine his entire career, “we dedicate our efforts beyond the provision of superb clinical care – we also have the privilege of advancing medicine through both research and teaching,” he said. Those in academic medicine “have the unique and powerful opportunity to make the greatest differences in patients’ lives.”
As a proud alum and now a trustee, he said, “I’m hoping I can repay, even if it’s in a small way, the great debt of gratitude that I have to this place.”
