Michael C. Moore Ph.D.

Dr. Michael Moore was appointed to the position of Executive Director of the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in 2024. In this role, he serves as the senior executive at the medical center responsible for decisions affecting the nature, scope, and quality of the facility’s patient care programs and activities. Dr. Moore has direct line responsibility and full accountability for managing all activities of the healthcare delivery system, which includes a two-campus medical center with 505 operating hospital beds, a 154 bed Domiciliary and a 119-bed Community Living Center. CAVHS also manages eight Community Based Outpatient Clinics. He sets policy for the overall budget of the medical center totaling more than $1 Billion and with more than 3,700 employees.

Before being appointed Medical Center Director at CAVHS, he served as Deputy Network Director for the VA Heartland Network and also as the Assistant Director at the Kansas City VA. Dr. Moore joined the Veterans Health Administration in 2001 as a staff psychologist at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital. During his tenure there, he also held an appointment as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology/Psychiatry with the University of Missouri School of Medicine.

In addition, Dr. Moore was a clinical instructor of behavioral statistics at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri. Dr. Moore has completed multiple details as an Associate Director and served as the Interim Director of the  VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System in Aurora, Colorado, the  Interim Director of the John J Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and as the Interim Director at the Robert J Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, KS. He is a Senior Fellow with the Partnership for Public Service.