Michele Chulick has been named director of hospital operations and associate vice president for the University of Miami Health System.

Chulick comes to UM from the William Beaumont Hospitals in Royal Oaks and Troy, Michigan, where she was vice president of operations for the two-hospital, 1,300-bed health system.

Chulick has held a variety of administrative and operations positions at the Beaumont Hospitals since 1988, directing information services, adding new health care services and partnerships, and overseeing a $240 million hospital expansion.

She has a master’s degree in business administration from Wayne State University and is also a graduate of Duke University