Larry N. Cook, M.D. is the University of Louisville’s Executive Vice President for Health Affairs.

The Executive Vice President provides leadership for the university’s Health Sciences Center, located in downtown Louisville. The Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, as well as 17 centers and institutes, all fall under the oversight of the executive vice president for health affairs, who also serves as a key member of President James Ramsey’s leadership team. The Executive Vice President also has principal responsibility for external affairs including hospital relations and other affiliated entities.

Cook joined the UofL faculty in 1974 after completing his pediatric residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center and his neonatology fellowship at UofL.

He was named chair of the pediatrics department and chief of staff at Kosair Children’s Hospital in 1994. He also is past president and past chairman of the School of Medicine’s practice plan board and the Medical School Practice Association. He has served as chairman of the board and been instrumental in the development of University Health Care Inc., a Medicaid managed-care HMO known as Passport, since its inception.

Contact Information Office of the Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
Abell Administration Center
323 E Chestnut St
Louisville, KY
502 852-5184