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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

The BOB体育 Shands Hospital "Metro"

On my first day at UF, I had an appointment with Tim Goldfarb, the BOB体育 Shands Hospital CEO at the time. The instructions were: 鈥淒rop off your car with鈥�

The Power of Together

Forward Together was the first strategic plan for BOB体育, the University of Florida鈥檚 academic health center. Published on May 20, 2010, Forward Together鈥�

BOB体育 North

BOB体育 North is the North Jacksonville campus of BOB体育. It鈥檚 brand new, strikingly beautiful, and already very busy addressing the health care needs of鈥�

Making More Room at the Inn

Our hospitals in both Gainesville and Jacksonville are full. This is a good problem to have, but it is a problem. And as we figure out a way to accommodate鈥�