VCU news

By Pamela DiSalvo Lepley
Division of University Relations

Gov. Terry McAuliffe has appointed two new members to the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors and reappointed two others.

Carol Shapiro, M.D. and Ron McFarlane will join VCU’s governing body on July 1. Reappointed to a second four-year term on the board are Jacquelyn Stone of Richmond, Virginia, and Sudhakar Shenoy of Reston, Virginia.

Shapiro, of Fairfax Station, Virginia, is a medical doctor specializing in plastic and reconstructive surgery. She also is a clinical instructor at Georgetown University Hospital in the Department of Plastic Surgery. She served previously on the VCU Board of Visitors and the VCU Health System Authority Board.

McFarlane is group president of Specialty Infusion Services at Diplomat Pharmacy and had served as the chief operating officer at MedPro Rx before it was acquired by Diplomat in June 2014. As a member of his alma mater’s MCV Foundation, he also sits on the National Advisory Council for the VCU School of Pharmacy. He previously served on the National Board of Directors for the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation.   

Stone is a partner at McGuire Woods, and Shenoy is founder, chair and CEO of Information Management Consultants Inc.

“The executive administration team and I very much look forward to working with these appointees to the university’s governing board,” said Michael Rao, Ph.D., president of VCU. “They bring a wealth of experience from their professional and civic activities as well as previous service in higher education on governing boards and as faculty.”

Rao also expressed sympathies to the family and friends on the passing of Frank Hall last week, a member of the Board of Visitors since 2014. “He had shown himself to be an important and devoted champion for the faculty, staff and students who are advancing VCU’s mission in every way.”