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Dr. C. Wright Pinson is the deputy vice chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the Hospitals and Clinics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a graduate of Miami University and the University of Colorado with a degree in physics. He attended medical school at Vanderbilt University.

After completing his training, he started the first liver transplantation program in the Pacific Northwest, at Oregon Health Sciences University in 1988, and later was recruited to Vanderbilt University as professor of surgery to start the liver transplant program and liver surgery division in 1990. In 1993, he became the surgical director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. He has since held a variety of administrative posts. 

Dr. Pinson is an active clinical researcher and maintains a laboratory in the field of transplantation surgery, having received numerous grants and recently both the Sawyers research award and the Liddle research mentoring award. He has authored more than 250 contributions to the literature and given more than 500 scientific presentations and lectures. He served on the board of the United Network for Organ Sharing, and currently chairs the committee for allocation of liver and intestinal grafts. He is past-president of the Tennessee Transplant Society, and active in the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American Surgical Association and the Halsted Society.