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January 31, 2007
Medical City Welcomes New Board Chairman
Active Leader Carole Young Takes the Helm

Carole Young has been named chairman of the board of trustees of Medical City Dallas Hospital. A board member for the past nine years, Young was installed on January 1, after the term completion of former chairman, Andrew M. Stern.

“Carole exemplifies true commitment to quality healthcare,” says board member Winifred Parnell, M.D., “balanced with her compassion for people, she is the total package and the perfect fit for the position of chairman.”

Young began her professional career in 1961 as a mathematician for the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia. She later transferred to the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Silver Springs, Maryland where she worked in aerospace at a wind tunnel facility. After moving to Dallas, Young volunteered as a computer programmer in cancer research at the Wadley Institutes of Molecular Medicine, while raising a family.

In 1995, Carole was appointed by then Texas Governor George W. Bush to a six-year term on the Board of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. For three years of her term she served as the board’s vice chairman. At the completion of her service, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice renamed its Southern Regional Medical Facility the Carole S. Young Medical Facility in recognition of her efforts in correctional health care.

Along with her new role as chairman of the board of trustees for Medical City, Young also serves on the development board of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, the executive committee of the chancellor’s council of The University of Texas System and as a member of The President’s Circle of the National Academies. In addition, she and her husband Jim Young have served as co-chairs of the President’s Research Council at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Young holds a degree in mathematics from Vanderbilt University and resides with her husband in Dallas, Texas.