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David S. Guzick, M.D., Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Health Affairs, President, BOB体育

DAVID S. GUZICK, M.D., PH.D., is senior vice president for health affairs and president, BOB体育. He also serves as board chair for both BOB体育 and BOB体育 Jacksonville. Since his appointment on July 1, 2009, Dr. Guzick has focused on promoting close and trusting collaborations between Health Science Center faculty and hospital administration as the principal means of ensuring success in all three missions of BOB体育, the University of Florida Academic Health Center. He has emphasized quality and safety in patient care as Job 1, and promoting excellence in clinical and translational research at UF to complement existing strength in biomedical science, including construction of an academic home for clinical and translational science. From 2002-2009, Dr. Guzick was dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. In addition to serving as dean, he was principal investigator for Rochester鈥檚 NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award. From 1995 until 2002, Dr. Guzick served as the Henry A. Thiede professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program of the National Institutes of Health. Following a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he completed a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. An internationally known expert in reproductive endocrinology, Dr. Guzick was inducted into the Society of Scholars at the Johns Hopkins University in 2004 as a national and international leader in that field. In 2008, Dr. Guzick was elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the nation鈥檚 highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.

Stories by David

Gaining Momentum in 2011

Without question, 2010 was a busy year of strategic planning, and of laying foundations. In 2011, we will capitalize on these accomplishments and build鈥�

"Reflections on 2010"

This is a time of year for individual reflection. Looking back over the past year, personally and professionally, what can we learn from our achievements and鈥�

UF鈥檚 New Small Animal Hospital

On Oct. 22, the University of Florida鈥檚 new Small Animal Hospital at the College of Veterinary Medicine was officially dedicated at a memorable Grand Opening鈥�

Tobacco-Free Together

Nov. 1 marked the one-year anniversary of Tobacco-Free Together, our initiative to create tobacco-free campuses at UF&Shands in Gainesville. I had the pleasure鈥�

GatorAdvantage

Do you know the 鈥渄ouble secret number?鈥� In July 2009, during my first week on the job, an old colleague called me about his brother, who lives in Gainesville.鈥�

鈥淲elcome new HSC students鈥�

Things are clearly different in Gainesville at the start of a new academic year鈥攖he traffic, the restaurants and shops, the very energy on the streets. And鈥�

Our Quality Action Plan

In the May 20, 2010 edition of On the Same Page, I shared the main themes of our strategic plan. With respect to our clinical mission, the first and foremost鈥�