David S. Guzick
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David S. Guzick is an American university Senior Vice President of Health Affairs. Guzick is a native of Brooklyn, New York and currently resides in Gainesville, Florida. He is the first to be inducted as the Senior Vice President of Health Affairs.
While at UTHSCD, in 1984, he began the first program in in vitro fertilization in that institution. During his career as a clinician and researcher in reproductive endocrinology, Dr. Guzick developed mathematical and statistical models, focusing on life-table and multivariate approaches, for the evaluation of infertility data, he was Principal Investigator on the NIH Reproductive Medicine Network at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Rochester, and on other NIH grants involving infertility, endometriosis and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. With Evelyn Talbott, PhD, and other collaborators, Dr. Guzick developed the study design and implemented a long-term case-control study demonstrating increased cardiovascular risk among women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
While Dean at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, he was instrumental in the awarding of the AAMC Outstanding Community Service Award in 2004 to the University of Rochester, oversaw a doubling of externally funded research to the School in general, and was Principal Investigator on a $40 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the NIH National Center for Research Resources, the largest NIH award to the University in its history. Dr. Guzick was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2004 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.
In this regard, Dr. Guzick serves as Chair of the Board of both Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics in Gainesville and Shands-Jacksonville. Dr. Guzick is responsible for the educational, research and academic missions of the UF Health Science Center and Shands HealthCare, which in total includes approximately 1400 faculty members, 15,000 employees and an annual budget of $2.8 billion.
Early Life and Education
David S. Guzick was born in New York, New York in 1952, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree of arts in math and economics in 1972. He then was admitted to the New York University Medical Scientist Training Program where he received both his doctor of medicine and his doctorate in economics in 1979. In 1982 he completed his residency at Johns Hopkins University in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was recruited to University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas (UTHSCD) as a Fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology under Director Paul MacDonald, M.D.While at UTHSCD, in 1984, he began the first program in in vitro fertilization in that institution. During his career as a clinician and researcher in reproductive endocrinology, Dr. Guzick developed mathematical and statistical models, focusing on life-table and multivariate approaches, for the evaluation of infertility data, he was Principal Investigator on the NIH Reproductive Medicine Network at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Rochester, and on other NIH grants involving infertility, endometriosis and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. With Evelyn Talbott, PhD, and other collaborators, Dr. Guzick developed the study design and implemented a long-term case-control study demonstrating increased cardiovascular risk among women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
Professional Background
From UTHSCD Dr. Guzick was recruited to the University of Pittsburgh as division director of Reproductive Endocrinology in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1986–1995. From there he was recruited to the University of Rochester as Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1995 - 2002. He was then appointed Dean of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry from 2002 through 2009.While Dean at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, he was instrumental in the awarding of the AAMC Outstanding Community Service Award in 2004 to the University of Rochester, oversaw a doubling of externally funded research to the School in general, and was Principal Investigator on a $40 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the NIH National Center for Research Resources, the largest NIH award to the University in its history. Dr. Guzick was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2004 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.
University of Florida Senior Vice President of Health Affairs
David S. Guzick is the current Senior Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.[1] In addition he also serves as President of The UF&Shands Health System. In this dual role, Dr. Guzick has responsibility for six University of Florida (UF) colleges that constitute the Health Science Center (the Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine), and also for the collaboration between these colleges and Shands HealthCare, which operates large hospital systems in both Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida.In this regard, Dr. Guzick serves as Chair of the Board of both Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics in Gainesville and Shands-Jacksonville. Dr. Guzick is responsible for the educational, research and academic missions of the UF Health Science Center and Shands HealthCare, which in total includes approximately 1400 faculty members, 15,000 employees and an annual budget of $2.8 billion.