Reginald Blaber

Reginald Blaber, MD FACC MBA, is Virtua Health’s executive vice president and chief clinical officer. He is responsible for transforming Virtua’s care delivery models through impactful education and communication and adherence to high reliability principles to better meet the quality, safety, value and experience needs of the community. His responsibilities include providing strategic direction, leadership and accountability for all nursing and physician services – including the clinically integrated network -- and for setting the standards for the highest level of quality and safety throughout Virtua. He also serves as liaison between the medical staff, administration and board of trustees. 

Since the onset of the global COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, Dr. Blaber has assumed the role of incident commander for Virtua, leading a multi-disciplinary team of leaders through Virtua’s pandemic response from clinical protocols, to the acceleration of telehealth and mobile food deployment, to the establishment of mass testing and vaccination sites.  He has been a media spokesperson, and a liaison to the Governor’s office, the Department of Health and other local and regional health authorities.

Prior to joining Virtua’s executive team, Dr. Blaber was president of Lourdes Health System. He created the Lourdes Cardiovascular Institute where he led more than 80 employed and affiliated cardiologists, growing the service to become the largest heart program in southern New Jersey. In addition, he created a culture of quality and innovation resulting in multiple awards for excellence. These include national quality recognition for cardiovascular care and cardiac surgery by leading, independent ratings organizations such as Healthgrades, Becker’s and Truven Health Analytics. 

Dr. Blaber is a practicing cardiologist who has been affiliated with Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden for more than 20 years. There he participated in numerous clinical and administrative committees, including a term as medical staff president. In 2010, he was named president of Lourdes Medical Associates and, in 2011, president of Lourdes Cardiology Services. 

In 2016, he was appointed to the New Jersey Cardiovascular Health Advisory Panel. The same year, the Diocese of Camden honored him with the Saint Luke Award for Leadership in Catholic Health Care in southern New Jersey. He has served on the boards of The Joseph Fund, the Haddonfield Ambulance Association, the Interfaith Care Givers of Haddonfield, and the Bucknell University Alumni Association. 

Dr. Blaber came to South Jersey by way of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Fort Benning, and Fort Meade. He served six years in the U.S. Army as an internist and achieved the rank of major. He received his medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine, where he completed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease. He graduated from Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and earned a Master of Business Administration from Villanova University.