About the Office of the Vice President for Health Sciences

The Office of the Vice President for Health Sciences oversees the five health sciences schools as well as the Massey Cancer Center. Areas of responsibility include academic affairs, academic and research space management, and financial and administrative affairs.

More than 4,200 students, interns, residents and postdoctoral fellows receive their health sciences education and training at the VCU Medical Center and at clinical sites throughout the metropolitan Richmond area and the commonwealth of Virginia each year.

VCU Health Sciences is committed to educational programs directed toward providing graduates capable of meeting the commonwealth’s health care needs. Programs are dedicated to maintaining and updating the competency of health professionals in addition to preparing graduates to enter health professions. The educational programs are supported by an institutional commitment to effective teaching and by the 779-bed teaching hospital.