Paul joins MUSC Health as chief people officer
October 2, 2016
CHARLESTON, SC – Darrick T. Paul was recently named MUSC Health chief people officer (CPO) and assumed his new role Sept. 4. He joins the MUSC Health executive leadership team, bringing broad experience and a decades-long history in senior human resource leadership to MUSC.
As CPO, Paul is responsible for the management and execution of the overall human capital strategy in support of MUSC Health’s strategic direction and business plan. Paul will be responsible for providing vision and leadership in developing and promoting change management strategies that support an engaged workforce capable of transforming to meet the needs of the ever- changing health care landscape.
Prior to joining MUSC, he was with Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) in Denver, Colorado, for 10 years, serving as vice president for Human Resources (HR), Enterprise Business Lines and the East-Southeast Division. In that capacity, Paul provided leadership and strategic direction for human resource activities for 20,000 employees. Prior to that position, he held senior HR roles with CHI at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri, and St. Vincent Health System in Little Rock, Arkansas.
During that time, Paul also served as an adjunct associate professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the Fay Boozman College of Public Health’s Master of Health Administration Program.
Paul received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and earned dual master’s degrees from the American InterContinental University: the first in health care administration and the second in business administration.
In addition to his professional endeavors, Paul was active in a variety of civic and community-related organizations in Little Rock. He was appointed by the mayor to serve as a member of the City of Little Rock Civil Service Commission and later was elected to serve as its chairman. Paul was also elected as chairman of the Joplin Enterprise Zone advisory board and served on the boards of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Arkansas Festival Ballet and Joplin YMCA. He served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve and a public health advisor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About MUSC Health
MUSC Health is the clinical enterprise of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) comprised of a 700-bed Medical Center, the MUSC College of Medicine and the physician’s practice plan. It serves patients across South Carolina and beyond through four hospital facilities in Charleston and more than 100 outreach sites. Among these are the Hollings Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated center and the only one of its kind in South Carolina, and a nationally recognized Children’s Hospital. The Medical University was founded in 1824 and has become a premiere academic health sciences center at the forefront of the latest advances in medicine, with world-class practitioners and scientists providing groundbreaking research and technology that is often the first of its kind in the world.
