About the President
Dr. Todd Telemeco, PT, DPT, PhD, serves as Mary Baldwin’s 11th president, bringing more than 20 years of professional higher education experience in leadership roles and as a professor at various universities.
Resumé highlights include serving as School of Health Sciences dean at Methodist University, founding dean for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke’s College of Health Sciences, vice president of academic affairs at the University of Mount Olive, and, most recently, vice president and dean of Mary Baldwin’s Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences, where he was also a professor of physical therapy.
Under Telemeco’s leadership of Murphy Deming, the college reinvigorated and expanded the School of Nursing, including achieving full accreditation of the doctor of nursing practice program from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education; a $2 million gift to establish Murphy Deming Fellowships that will give five students an annual scholarship of $20,000 per year, for 20 years; and a 100% pass rate on the Physician Assistant certification exam by Class of 2025 graduates.
During his tenure at MBU, he has also served as strategic advisor to the president and provided executive leadership for the athletics department while serving as vice president of Murphy Deming.
A licensed physical therapist, Telemeco holds two doctoral degrees — one in anatomy from Virginia Commonwealth University, and another in physical therapy from Shenandoah University.
Over the course of his career, Telemeco has forged an impressive record of academic leadership, clinical expertise, and partnership-building through strengthening outreach, community relations, and external affiliations within the healthcare industry and beyond.
As of summer 2025, for example, Murphy Deming has graduated over 1,000 healthcare providers, 40% of whom have stayed in the area and served local residents in approximately 9.5 million individual patient visits.
His leadership style emphasizes the creative use of available resources and institutional strengths to solve problems, navigate the fast pace of change, and benefit students, academic programs, the university, and the surrounding community. In the past he has led key efforts around reaching rural and underserved populations, including Native American tribes.
An approachable and collaborative leader with a progressive track record of administrative success, Telemeco is a bridge-builder, advocate, and change agent, leveraging his considerable experience in strategic vision and operational leadership to broaden academic offerings and expand the geographical reach of the institutions he serves.