UF Health Shands Executive Team
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UF Health Shands is UF Health’s hospital system based in Gainesville. It includes the flagship teaching hospital UF Health Shands Hospital as well as UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital, UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, UF Health Heart & Vascular Hospital, UF Health Neuromedicine Hospital, UF Health Shands Rehab Hospital and UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital.
UF Health Shands Hospital is also home to a state-designated Level I trauma center, a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, a regional burn center and an emergency air and ground transport program. The system also comprises a network of outpatient rehabilitation centers and a home health agency.
UF Health Shands is affiliated with more than 50 UF Health Physicians primary care and specialty medical practices located throughout North Central Florida. UF Health Shands Hospital is also home to a state-designated Level I trauma center, a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, a regional burn center and an emergency air and ground transport program.
Irene Alexaitis,
D.N.P., R.N., NEA-BC
Vice President Nursing and Patient Services
UF Health Shands
Marina Cecchini,
M.B.A.
Chief Executive Officer,
UF Health Shands Rehab Hospital (Select Medical)
Traci Spray d'Auguste
Chief Operating Officer
UF Health Shands
C. Parker Gibbs,
M.D.
Chief Medical Officer,
UF Health Shands
Orthopaedic Surgery Division Chief.
UF College of Medicine
Roxane Harcourt, LCSW, LMFT
Administrator, UF Health Shands Psychiatric Hospital
Executive Director, UF Health Florida Recovery Center
Nicole M. Iovine, M.D., Ph.D.
Epidemiology Officer in Chief, UF Health Shands Hospital
Randall C. Jenkins, Esq.
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
UF Health Shands
Administrator, UF College of Medicine Self-Insurance Program
UF Health Shands
Michele Lossius, M.D.
Chief Quality Officer, UF Health Shands
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Chief, UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital
Physician Director of Quality and Safety, UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital
Anna Michelle Brandt, M.S., M.B.A.
Vice President and Hospital Chief of Staff
UF Health Shands
UF Health Shands Hospital Board of Directors
Category I (Ex-Officio)
David R. Nelson, M.D.
President & Chairman, Board of Directors
Senior Vice President for Health Affairs, UF
President, UF Health
Edward Jimenez, M.B.A.
Chief Executive Officer
UF Health Shands
Joseph Adrian Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H.
Interim Dean
University of Florida College of Medicine
Thomas G. Kuntz
Vice Chairman
Board of Directors
W. Kent Fuchs, Ph.D.
President
University of Florida
Category II
C. Parker Gibbs, Jr., M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
UF Health Shands
Julie A. Johnson, Pharm.D.
Dean
UF College of Pharmacy
Li-Ming Su, M.D.
Chairman
UF Department of Urology
Gilbert R. Upchurch, Jr., M.D.
Chairman
UF Department of Surgery
Category III
Tracy Duda Chapman, Esq.
Lead Director
Senior Vice President/General Counsel, A. Duda & Sons, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer, The Viera Company
David J. Jasmund
PCE Investment Bankers, Inc.
Michael V. McKee
UF Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
John Patterson, Esq.
Shutts & Bowen LLP
Carolyn K. Roberts
President
Roberts Real Estate, Inc.
E. Hunter Beebe
Managing Principal
Healthcare Real Estate Capital
Marsha D. Powers
