A veteran of Sentara Health will be stepping into the role of interim CEO of the University of Virginia Medical Center, the college health system’s flagship hospital in Charlottesville.

Terrie Edwards, who worked for Norfolk-based Sentara for 16 1/2 years, most recently as president of its Eastern Division in Virginia, will begin her new job at UVa Monday.

UVa hospital CEO Wendy Horton to resign

She replaces, at least temporarily, Wendy Horton, who left in an exodus of top brass that also included UVa Health CEO Dr. Craig Kent and UVa Medical School Dean Dr. Melina Kibbe. The latter two were embroiled in a monthslong scandal after 128 physicians and faculty members drafted a letter of no confidence in their leadership in September of last year accusing the two of unethical and criminal

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