Len Preslar | |
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Born | Concord, North Carolina, U.S. | August 13, 1947
Academic background | |
Education | Wake Forest University (BS) University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MBA) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Business |
Sub-discipline | Healthcare management |
Institutions | Wake Forest University |
Len B. Preslar Jr. (born August 13,1947) is an American business educator who has been a Distinguished Professor of Practice at Wake Forest University since 2009. [1] [2]
Preslar was born and raised in Concord,North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. [3]
Prior to his career in academics,he worked as the CEO and president of the North Carolina Baptist Hospital of 18 years before retiring in 2007. [4]
Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County,North Carolina,United States. At the 2020 census,the population was 249,545,making it the fifth-most-populous city in North Carolina,and the 90th-most-populous city in the United States. The population of the Winston-Salem metropolitan area was estimated to be 695,630 in 2023. It is the second-most-populous city in North Carolina's Piedmont Triad region,home to about 1.7 million residents.
Wake Forest University (WFU) is a private research university in Winston-Salem,North Carolina,United States. Founded in 1834,the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest,north of Raleigh,North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus,the university's main campus,has been located north of downtown Winston-Salem since the university moved there in 1956.
The Demon Deacon is the mascot of Wake Forest University,a school located in Winston-Salem,North Carolina,United States. Probably best known for its slightly unorthodox name and appearance,the Demon Deacon has become a mainstay in the world of U.S. college mascots.
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is an academic medical center and health system located in Winston-Salem,North Carolina,and part of Charlotte-based Atrium Health. It is the largest employer in Forsyth County,with more than 19,220 employees and a total of 198 buildings on 428 acres. In addition to the main,tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem known as Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center,the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health system operates five community hospitals in the surrounding region. The entity includes:
UNC Health is a not-for-profit medical system owned by the State of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill,North Carolina at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides services throughout the Research Triangle and North Carolina. UNC Health was created in 1998,when the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation that established the UNC Health Care System,bringing under one entity UNC Hospitals and the clinical programs of the UNC School of Medicine. In 2018,the system reported over 3.5 million outpatient visits and over 500,000 emergency visits.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority,is a hospital network with more than 70,000 employees and,since its merger with Advocate Aurora Health in 2022,part of Advocate Health. It operates 40 hospitals,7 freestanding emergency departments,over 30 urgent care centers,and more than 1,400 care locations in the American states of North Carolina,South Carolina,Georgia,and Alabama. It provides care under the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist name in the Winston-Salem,North Carolina,region,Atrium Health Navicent in the Macon,Georgia area,and Atrium Health Floyd in the Rome,Georgia area. Atrium Health offers pediatric,cancer,and heart care,as well as organ transplants,burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs.
William Louis Poteat (1856–1938),also known as "Doctor Billy",was a professor and then the seventh president (1905–1927) of Wake Forest College. Poteat was conspicuous in many civic roles becoming a leader of the Progressive Movement in the South,and a champion of higher education. Though a Baptist,he defended the teaching of evolution as the "divine method of creation",arguing it was fully compatible with Christian beliefs.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine is the medical school of Wake Forest University,with two campuses located in Winston-Salem,North Carolina and Charlotte,North Carolina,United States. It is affiliated with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist,the academic medical center whose clinical arm is Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. In 2021,U.S. News &World Report ranked Wake Forest School of Medicine 48th best for research in the nation and 80th best for primary care. The School of Medicine also ranks in the top third of U.S. medical schools in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) is a non-profit health care system with dual headquarters located in Milwaukee,Wisconsin,and Downers Grove,Illinois. As of 2021,the AAH system has 26 hospitals and more than 500 sites of care,with 75,000 employees,including 10,000 employed physicians. The health system formed as a result of a merger between Illinois-based Advocate Health Care and Wisconsin-based Aurora Health Care. AAH is a teaching affiliate of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Wake Forest Baptist Church was a Baptist Church located on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem,North Carolina. The church belonged to the Alliance of Baptists,Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists,Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Leonard Gaston Broughton was a fundamentalist Baptist minister,medical doctor,founder of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta,Georgia and of Tabernacle Infirmary,which later became Georgia Baptist Hospital.
Wake Forest University School of Law is the law school of Wake Forest University,a private research university in Winston-Salem,North Carolina. Established in 1894,Wake Forest University School of Law is an American Bar Association (ABA) accredited law school and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The current dean is Andrew R. Klein.
Earl Smith is an American sociologist,currently the Rubin Distinguished Professor Emeritus of American Ethnic Studies at Wake Forest University,and formerly the Arthur A. Sio Distinguished Professor of Community and Diversity at Colgate University. He teaches at George Mason University.
Michael Hyde is an American linguist,currently a University Distinguished Professor at Wake Forest University. He received a Distinguished Scholar Award in 2013 from the National Communication Association,and in 2019 he won the Association's Communication Ethics Top Book Award for his 2018 book The Interruption that We Are:The Health of the Lived Body,Narrative,and Public Moral Argument.
Ben C. Sutton Jr. is an American investor and philanthropist and the founder and Chairman of Teall Capital,a private equity fund and portfolio holding company that helps colleges in their athletic operations.
Robert James Plemmons is an American mathematician specializing in computational mathematics. He is the emeritus Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wake Forest University. In 1979,Plemmons co-authored the book Nonnegative Matrices in the Mathematical Sciences.
Washington Manly Wingate (1828-1879) served as the fourth president of Wake Forest College,from 1853 to 1862,and then after the Civil War from 1866 until his death in 1879. He is also the namesake for Wingate University,located in Wingate,North Carolina.
Thomas K. Hearn Jr. was the twelfth president of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem,North Carolina. Hearn served as president from 1983 to 2005,which is the second-longest tenure in the university's history. During Hearn's time as president he oversaw the transformation of the school from a regional Southern Baptist college into one of the nation's premier independent universities.
Julie Ann Freischlag is an American vascular surgeon and current CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. She was the first female surgeon-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first female chief of vascular surgery at the University of California,Los Angeles. In 2017,Freischlag was appointed Interim Dean of Wake Forest School of Medicine and CEO of the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. During the COVID-19 pandemic in North America,Freischlag was named chief academic officer of Atrium Health,Inc.,and appointed the President-Elect of the American College of Surgeons.