David S. Guzick

David S. Guzick, MD, PhD, is a reproductive endocrinologist and academic health center leader who began as Chancellor of LSU Health Shreveport on January 9, 2023. Previously, he served for nine years as University of Florida senior vice president for health affairs and president of UF Health. Under his leadership, the UF Health hospital system and six health science colleges were brought together as a functionally integrated academic health center, resulting in transformative improvements in patient care quality, NIH funding, and educational innovation, as well as a dramatic expansion in education, research and clinical facilities. From 2002 to 2009, Dr. Guzick was dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester. In addition to serving as dean, he was principal investigator for Rochester’s NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award. From 1995 until 2002, Dr. Guzick was the Henry A. Thiede professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester.