Obtained By FOIA: UVA Health System Concerned Doctors’ Report

The following document collection was obtained via a FOIA request concerning the UVA Health System scandal. During the formal internal investigation conducted last winter by Williams and Connelly, nearly three dozen doctors and one Board member of the UVA Physicians Group were interviewed by Jones Swanson and Huddell LLC, the attorneys for the concerned medical professionals. This collection contains their interviews and corresponding documents as well as an Executive Summary, all of which were presented to the Board of Visitors on February 25, 2025 in a special meeting called by then-Rector Robert Hardie. The full Williams and Connelly report on UVA Health has never been released to the public.

Absent that report, this collection provides critical insight into what was occurring within the UVA Health System. It contains extensive accounts and detailed reporting from medical professionals inside the system who raised serious concerns. When these issues were first brought forward in a letter of no confidence to University leadership on September 5, 2024, they were met not with transparency, but with resistance. In response, then-President Jim Ryan criticized and effectively demonized the doctors who spoke up, only to finally walk back his “disrespectful” statement seven months later in April 2025. By then, several members of UVA Health had resigned -- with UVA providing virtually no explanations over the departures of CEO Craig Kent, Dean Melina Kibbe, or Dr. Ourania Preventza. This sequence of events and the absence of clear public accountability make the contents of this document collection especially significant.

Members of the University of Virginia and Charlottesville communities should read this carefully, particularly in light of the ongoing federal lawsuit filed regarding UVA Health, as well as recent efforts to portray the period of Ryan’s leadership as beyond reproach. Whatever narratives have since been constructed, the proverbial “buck” stopped at the President’s desk. This FOIA collection provides essential context for understanding what was happening, how concerns were handled or not handled, and why transparency and accountability remain absolutely critical to UVA’s future.