Quynh Chau, Ph.D., MBA, has been named chief financial officer of Dell Medical School and the integrated academic health system it anchors.
Chau joined the Dell Med in October 2025 as deputy CFO. As CFO, Chau will help develop the long-range financial architecture required to support the University’s integrated academic health system, including growth across care, research and education. Her work will focus on integrating academic, clinical and research financial streams into a more unified enterprise model, while strengthening forecasting, capital prioritization and financial discipline to support clarity, accountability and strategic growth.
About Chau
Before joining Dell Medical School, Chau held senior finance leadership roles across academic medicine, integrated health systems and Fortune 500 healthcare organizations. Her experience spans strategic financial planning, value-based care operations, physician practice management and digital health strategy, including leadership roles at Parkland Health and Hospital System, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Labcorp. Most recently, she served as interim CFO for a two-hospital health system in Arizona, where she helped guide long-range financial planning.
Over the course of her career, Chau has led large-scale budgeting and operational initiatives, supported major capital and enterprise resource planning projects, guided payer and physician contracting strategies, and used data-informed financial decision-making to help organizations navigate change. Her experience also includes financial planning in support of academic physician practices, graduate medical education programs and medical research initiatives.
Chau earned a doctorate in public health from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, an MBA from The University of Texas at Dallas and a master’s degree in data science from Southern Methodist University.