Dr. Victor Legner is the Chief Medical Officer of Central Ohio Primary Care as of September 4, 2024.
Dr. Legner completed his Internal Medicine residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota followed by a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine with master’s degree in Epidemiology at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. His career began as the Clinical Services Chief and Geriatric Fellowship Director at the University of California, San Diego. He later joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he held roles including Executive Medical Director for the Medicine Patient Care Center and the founding Executive Medical Director of Primary Care.
During his tenure at Vanderbilt, Dr. Legner led a remodeling of primary care focused on expanded primary care access, improving quality, and doing so with a value-based approach. Under his leadership, every primary care practice achieved certification as a Patient-Centered Medical Home. During the COVID-19 pandemic he created a skilled nursing home coalition which resulted in dramatically improved outcomes for long-term care residents in Tennessee and designed COVID to Home, a program which provided home care and monitoring for individuals with COVID-19. This led to the development of Vanderbilt’s Hospital at Home program that allowed individuals to remain in the comfort of their own home while receiving treatment for acute medical issues that would have previously required hospitalization.
Dr. Legner has served on many institutional leadership groups aimed at improving care for all patients including the Middle Tennessee Accountable Care Organization board of directors, the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network and Population Health executive committees, the Vanderbilt Medical Center medical board, and the Shade Tree Clinic board of directors.
As a practicing geriatric medicine physician, Dr. Legner specializes in taking care of frail, older adults, particularly those with cognitive decline and dementia. His care philosophy is to bring as much quality and comfort as possible to those with chronic illnesses through an inclusive team effort, listening and responding to concerns of his patients and their family members.
