Michael L. Good, MD, dean of the UF College of Medicine, was elected to the Administrative Board of the Council of Deans for the Association of American Medical Colleges. Good, UF’s ninth medical school dean, began his term with the board in June and will serve through 2018.

The AAMC’s Council of Deans includes the deans of all 147 accredited medical schools in the U.S. and 17 in Canada. The administrative board is elected from the membership of the Council of Deans and works to address issues affecting academic medicine.

Good took the helm of the UF College of Medicine in 2008, where he oversees 28 research-oriented basic and clinical departments with more than 1,300 faculty, 940 students and 775 resident physicians and fellows and the School of PA Studies. Good, a professor of anesthesiology, serves on the board of directors for UF Health Shands and chairs the board of directors for the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville.