improvements in quality of care and patient
safety, realized extraordinary clinical growth,
and increased its annual research awards
from the National Institutes of Health from
$61 million to $102 million. Medical student
outcomes have been strong, with nearly 30
percent of UF medical student graduates
placing into residency training programs
associated with a Top 10 medical school.
Initiatives to advance the diversity of the
student body have been successful.
“I don’t think he envisioned leaving UF,”
Duke said. “While a lot of us were sad, we
are glad for Mike, for his family and for the
University of Utah. They could not have
chosen a better person.”
During a farewell reception held for Good
and his wife, Danette, Aug. 8 in the George
T. Harrell, MD, Medical Education Building,
interim dean Joseph A. Tyndall, MD, MPH,
called Good’s leadership transformative.
“Under the leadership of Dr. Good, the
UF
College of Medicine has advanced
excellence in all of our missions,” said
Tyndall, who is also chair of the department
of emergency medicine. “I look forward to
continuing this journey, working with our
exceptional faculty and staff as well as our
department chairs and leaders at the college
and UF Health to ensure that we continue to
excel in research and education and that we
translate all these efforts into touching the
lives of our patients and the communities
within which they live.”
“LIFE TAKES MANY
TWISTS AND TURNS,
SOME ANTICIPATED
AND SOME NOT ... IT’S
ALWAYS DIFFICULT TO
SELECT A NEW TRAIL
WHEN THE CURRENT
ONE HAS BEEN SO
FULFILLING.”
— MICHAEL L. GOOD, MD
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Above:
A professor of anesthesiology with a computer
science background, Dr. Michael Good led a
team of UF physicians and engineers early
in his career to create the Human Patient
Simulator.
Left:
Dr. Michael Good leaves a legacy of
achievement at the UF College of Medicine.
His most notable is the modernization of
the medical education curriculum and the
construction of the George T. Harrell, MD,
Medical Education Building.
PHOTO BY MINDY C. MILLER
PHOTO BY JESSE S. JONES
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