William L. Roper

William Roper has served as Interim President of the University of North Carolina (“UNC”) System, a not-for-profit health care system, since January 2019. He previously served as Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs of UNC at Chapel Hill, an educational institution, and as Chief Executive Officer of the UNC Health Care System, from 2004 to 2019. He has also served as a Professor of Pediatrics and Social Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine and as a Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the UNC School of Public Health. Before joining UNC in 1997, Dr. Roper served as Senior Vice President of Prudential Health Care, a healthcare services company, from 1993 to 1997. He also served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1990 to 1993, on the senior White House staff in 1989 and 1990 and as the administrator of CMS from 1986 to 1989. Dr. Roper has served on the Board of DaVita Inc., an American managed care provider, since 2001. He served on the Board of Medco Health Solutions, Inc. from December 2007 until Medco merged with Express Scripts Holding Company in April 2012. He continued to serve on the Board of Express Scripts until the company merged with Cigna in December 2018.