Guzick steps down as president
of UF Health, senior vice president
for health affairs at UF
After nine years, David S. Guzick, MD, PhD, stepped down as president of UF Health and
senior vice president for health affairs at UF in July.
Since his appointment in 2009, Guzick created a culture of excellence and helped propel UF
Health forward in its missions of research, education and patient care. His accomplishments
include bridging the gap between the hospital system and health colleges to create an
integrated academic health system; increasing UF Health revenue and National Institutes
of Health funding; boosting faculty and staff recruitment; and overseeing the addition of
over 1 million square feet of space for patient care, research and education — including the
UF Health Heart & Vascular and UF Health Neuromedicine hospitals, which opened in
December 2017.
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Dr. Brian Hoh named chair of department of
neurosurgery
UF Health neurosurgeon Brian L. Hoh, MD, an expert in
the treatment of brain aneurysms, brain arteriovenous
malformations and ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, took over
as chair of the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery in
the UF College of Medicine July 1. He succeeds longtime chair
and neurosurgical pioneer William A. Friedman, MD, HS ‘82,
who continues at UF as a faculty member.
Hoh joined UF in 2006 after completing neurosurgery training
and a fellowship in interventional neuroradiology with Harvard
University at Massachusetts General Hospital. At that time,
UF Health didn’t have a stroke center, and Hoh recruited a
team of stroke neurologists and cerebrovascular/endovascular
neurosurgeons to build what is now the UF Health Shands
Comprehensive Stroke Center.
Hoh becomes only the third chair in the four-decade history of
the department, following two giants in the field: Friedman,
a pioneer in the early development of a now commonly
used noninvasive neurosurgical treatment called stereotactic
radiosurgery, and before him, the late Albert L. Rhoton Jr.,
MD, considered the father of neurosurgical anatomy and
microneurosurgery, a technique now used worldwide.
Hoh is focused on elevating the department to Top 5 status
nationwide for clinical care, research and education — an
effort he calls “Destination UF Neurosurgery.”
— MICHELLE KOIDIN JAFFEE
Interim president of UF Health, senior vice
president for health affairs at UF appointed
David R. Nelson, MD, has been appointed interim president
of UF Health and senior vice president for health affairs at UF.
A 25-year veteran of UF’s academic health center, Nelson is a
professor of medicine and assistant vice president for research
at the UF College of Medicine and director of the UF Clinical
and Translational Science Institute. His clinical expertise is
hepatology, with an emphasis on the management of viral
hepatitis and liver cancer, while his translational research
interests focus on the immunopathogenesis and treatment of
chronic hepatitis C and hepatocellular carcinoma.
"This is a critical period for UF Health," Nelson said. "We need
to continue to keep the academic health center and its research
mission moving forward."
PHOTO BY MINDY C. MILLER
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