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Prior to joining the CRA, he served as CFO for the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health, where he was responsible for financial oversight of the education, research, and clinical care missions. His extensive financial management and leadership experience includes serving as CFO of the Duke Clinical Research and Translational Medicine Institutes and leadership positions in two contract research organizations. Additionally, he served as Senior VP and CFO of Strategic Technologies, a large systems integrator. He started his career in the Entrepreneurial Services division of the Raleigh office of Ernst &amp; Young.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Education:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>BS Accounting, Barton College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Certifications:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Business Strategy, University of Virginia Darden School of Business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Licenses:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>CPA, NC (Inactive)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5086,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[8],"class_list":["post-3186","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-cra-leadership-and-coordinating-center-experts","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Sledge - Clinical Research Alliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Sledge, Vice President and Chief Business Officer at UNC CRA, leads financial strategy and partnerships to advance clinical research.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/unccra\/people\/michael-sledge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Sledge - 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