Queen’s Health Systems is sticking with the guy already in the hot seat, naming David Hope as president of Queen’s University Medical Group and senior vice president of the health system after several months in the interim role. The decision, announced Friday, cements his position over the system’s employed physicians as Queen’s keeps tightening coordination across its hospitals and clinics.
Leadership Role And Responsibilities
According to The Queen's Health Systems, Hope will oversee more than 700 employed providers working across Queen’s hospital campuses and ambulatory sites. He will also manage the professional-service agreements that link Queen’s with community physicians, a key piece of keeping specialists and primary care on the same page. In addition, Hope is expected to be a key player in Queen’s partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine, backing clinical education and training for the next wave of local providers.
Background And Experience
As reported by Pacific Business News, Hope first stepped into the QUMG top job on an interim basis in July 2025. Before coming to Queen’s, he served as vice president of physician services at Meritus Health, and he spent nine years at Wake Forest Baptist Health in a series of roles that put him in charge of managing large clinical networks.
Why The Pick Matters
The promotion lands at a moment when Queen’s is pouring resources into clinical capacity and tighter coordination of care. The Queen’s Medical Center was recently named the top hospital in Hawaiʻi by U.S. News & World Report, and leadership is signaling that QUMG will be central to knitting together inpatient services, outpatient clinics and medical education. With an experienced physician-administrator now officially in charge, Queen’s leaders say they are aiming for stronger alignment between day-to-day clinical operations and the academic training pipeline that supplies much of the state’s physician workforce.
