R. David Anderson, M.D. Dr. Anderson is an associate professor in the division of cardiovascular medicine in the UF College of Medicine s department of medicine. He is director of interventional cardiology and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. His clinical practice includes outpatient cardiology as well as cardiac catheterization. His research interests lie in clinical studies, stem cell therapy, coronary reactivity and percutaneous valve therapy. Dr. Anderson received a bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and a master s in biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed residency in internal medicine at the University of Maryland, serving as chief resident there before going on to a cardiology fellowship at Duke University. He is board-certified in cardiovascular disease, nuclear cardiology and interventional cardiology. Dr. Anderson has won four teaching excellence awards and a physician customer service recognition award from the department of internal medicine. He has been the principal or co-investigator on almost 30 clinical studies and has two U.S. patents. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters and almost 30 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Journal. He has served as co-director of the Florida chapter of the Chapter American College of Cardiology.
Jamie Beth Conti, M.D. Dr. Conti is a professor of medicine and serves as chief of the division of cardiovascular medicine in the University of Florida College of Medicine department of medicine. Dr. Conti is also the director of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at UF. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and is a 1987 graduate of the UF College of Medicine. She completed her medical residency at Emory University and fellowship training in cardiology and electrophysiology at UF. She joined the UF faculty in 1994 as an assistant professor of medicine and has held numerous leadership roles since then. She is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine. In 1999, Dr. Conti received the prestigious American College of Cardiology Proctor Harvey Teaching Award. In addition to her roles within UF, she has held leadership positions in the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Rhythm Society and the American Heart Association. Dr. Conti s research focuses on intracardiac device implantation, pregnancy and arrhythmias, and a unique implantable intracardiac hemodynamic monitor. Her studies have led to more than 100 published journal articles.
Timothy M. Goldfarb Mr. Goldfarb joined Shands HealthCare as chief executive officer in July 2001. Shands HealthCare is a private, not-for-profit health care system affiliated with the University of Florida and its Health Science Center campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville. Mr. Goldfarb s prior professional health care experience includes serving as director, University Hospital and Health Care Systems at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Ore., from 1987 until 2001. Earlier in his career, he served as senior associate director at Arizona Medical Center and as assistant administrator at Tucson General Hospital in Tucson, Arizona. Mr. Goldfarb has been active in a variety of professional associations. He is a member of the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) and served as chair of the Governing Board of the UHC from 2006 to 2009. He is a member of the Florida Hospital Association (FHA) and served as the FHA Chair from 2007 to 2008. He previously served as chairman of the Council of Teaching Hospitals of the Association of American Medical Colleges and chair of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. Mr. Goldfarb is a member of the United Way of North Central Florida Board of Directors, in which he served as the 2006 campaign chair. Mr. Goldfarb is a member of the Board of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and was recently appointed as chair of its Monitoring Committee. He also serves on various committees of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Mr. Goldfarb currently serves as a member of the Board of the Trauma Center Association of America (TCAA). Mr. Goldfarb received his undergraduate degree in political science and his master s degree in health services administration at Arizona State University. He and his wife, Laura, have three daughters and four grandchildren.
David S. Guzick, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Guzick is senior vice president for health affairs and president, UF&Shands Health System. He also serves as board chair for both Shands at UF and Shands Jacksonville. Since his appointment on July 1, 2009, Dr. Guzick has focused on promoting close and trusting collaborations between Health Science Center faculty and hospital administration as the principal means of ensuring success in all three missions of UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center. He has emphasized quality and safety in patient care as Job 1, and promoting excellence in clinical and translational research at UF to complement existing strength in biomedical science, including construction of an academic home for clinical and translational science From 2002 to 2009, Dr. Guzick was dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. 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 served as the Henry A. Thiede professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program of the National Institutes of Health. Following a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he completed a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. An internationally known expert in reproductive endocrinology, Dr. Guzick was inducted into the Society of Scholars at the Johns Hopkins University in 2004 as a national and international leader in that field. In 2008, Dr. Guzick was elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the nation s highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.
Preeti Jois, M.D. Dr. Jois is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine in the University of Florida College of Medicine and medical director of the Chest Pain E.R. at Shands. Dr. Jois completed her undergraduate work at the University of Florida and is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine. After a residency in emergency medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Dr. Jois completed a fellowship focusing specifically on cardiovascular emergencies at the Cleveland Clinic emergency medicine department. A diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Jois joined the College of Medicine faculty in 2008. She has led the UF Code Blue Committee since 2009 and has authored several papers and studies related to cardiovascular emergencies. In 2010, she received the College of Medicine s Exemplary Teacher Award.
Joseph Adrian Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H. Dr. Tyndall is the chairman of the department of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Tyndall is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he also completed his emergency medicine residency and served as chief resident. He also received his Master of Public Health degree in health services management and health policy from Columbia University. After his residency, Dr. Tyndall served as student clerkship director and then residency program director at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. He has held faculty appointments at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the State University of New York Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn, where he directed medical student and resident training in emergency medicine. He also directed clinical operations at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center s Level 1 urban trauma center in Brooklyn. Tyndall joined the UF faculty in 2006 and served as vice chairman of the department of emergency medicine before being named interim chair in 2007 and then chair in 2008.
David E. Winchester, M.D., M.S. Dr. Winchester is an assistant professor in the division of cardiovascular medicine at the UF College of Medicine s department of medicine. He practices general cardiology with a focus on noninvasive imaging, including echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and cardiac computed tomography. He is the director of cardiovascular services for the Chest Pain E.R. at Shands. A prolific researcher, Dr. Winchester has several active projects on the evaluation of chest pain in the emergency department, appropriate use of cardiac CT, and large-scale analyses of health effects. He received a B.S. in microbiology and a B.A. in sociology at the University of Florida. In 2005, he earned his medical degree at the University of South Florida. He then completed residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia before returning to UF for a cardiology fellowship and master s degree in clinical and translational science. He has won several awards for his research and teaching, including Fellow of the Year from the UF College of Medicine s department of medicine. Dr. Winchester has authored 13 peer-reviewed publications that have appeared in journals such as the Journal of American College of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic Proceedings and the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging. He has served in national leadership roles with the Society of Chest Pain Centers, the American College of Cardiology and the American Medical Association.