UF Health Shands Executive Team
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)
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
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
Diana Richardson, M.B.A.
Vice President of Operations
UF Health Shands
UF Health Shands Hospital Board of Directors
- David R. Nelson, M.D. (Chair)
- Edward Jimenez, M.B.A. (CEO)
- Joseph A. Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H. (Dean)
- E. Hunter Beebe
- Tracy Duda Chapman, Esq.
- W. Kent Fuchs, Ph.D.
- C. Parker Gibbs, M.D.
- David J. Jasmund
- Michael McKee
- John Patterson, Esq.
- Danny Ponce, Esq.
- Scott A. Rivkees, M.D.
- Carolyn King Roberts
- Steve Shey
- Li-Ming Su, M.D.
