Announcing new leadership appointments
The UF College of Medicine has announced three new leadership appointments
April 17, 2019 — The UF College of Medicine has announced three new leadership appointments.
Orthopaedic oncologist C. Parker Gibbs Jr., M.D., chief medical officer for UF Health Shands, has been named senior associate dean for clinical affairs for the college, a position most recently held by Timothy C. Flynn, M.D., until his retirement in April after nine years in the role. Marvin Dewar, M.D., J.D., will remain senior associate dean and chief executive officer of UF Health Physicians.
Effective May 1, Mark Segal, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as the senior associate dean for faculty affairs and professional development, and Ellen Zimmermann, M.D., will serve as associate dean for faculty development. These positions address areas of responsibility previously overseen by Marian Limacher, M.D., who is retiring at the end of April.
Together, they make up a strong leadership team that will focus on continuing to propel the college forward in the ongoing provision of safe, high-quality patient care and excellence in the patient experience, as well as to support faculty in their efforts to grow professionally and succeed across all missions.
C. Parker Gibbs Jr., M.D.
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Gibbs, the Eugene L. Jewett Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, has overseen the medical staff who practice within the UF Health Shands hospitals and provided a framework for a culture of safety and measurement of the quality of care by physicians and other clinicians since 2016. He also represents the Gainesville-based hospital system in physician recruitment, credentialing, discipline and continuing medical education and continues to see patients as a practicing member of the medical staff. Gibbs was appointed deputy director of medical affairs for the UF Health Cancer Center in 2014.
As chief of the UF College of Medicine’s division of musculoskeletal oncology, he is one of fewer than 200 surgeons nationwide who are considered to be experts at limb-salvage surgery to treat bone and soft tissue sarcomas. Gibbs has been a National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute-funded investigator who earned his medical degree from UF in 1989 and completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Colorado and fellowships in orthopaedic oncology and orthopaedic oncology research at the University of Chicago. He served as the director of musculoskeletal oncology at the University of Colorado for five years before his appointment to the UF department of orthopaedics in 2003.
Mark Segal, M.D., Ph.D.
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Segal, chief of the division of nephrology at UF since 2010, earned his undergraduate degree at MIT and was than recruited to the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He completed his internship and residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, and nephrology fellowship training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He was awarded a KO8 award from the National Institutes of Health.
After one year as an instructor at Harvard Medical School, Segal was recruited to UF in 1999 as an assistant professor, rising through the ranks to full professor with tenure. He has an adjunct appointment in the division of rheumatology, as well as the department of anatomy and cell biology and the department of physiology and functional genomics.
His research interest is in cardiovascular disease in unique populations and he has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1998. His clinical area of expertise is in the treatment of patients with lupus nephritis, and he developed a joint clinic for patients with lupus with the division of rheumatology in 2002. In 2014 he received a Department of Medicine Inaugural Master Clinician Award and he has been named one of the Best Doctors in America.
Segal has mentored learners at every level from high school to postdoctoral students and he has won numerous teaching awards at both the department and college level. In 2017 he was awarded the Department of Medicine Exemplary Mentor Award.
He previously served on the College of Medicine’s Promotion and Tenure Committee for three terms and has been a member of the College of Medicine’s Compensation Committee for two terms.
Ellen Zimmermann, M.D.
Zimmermann is a professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and vice chair for academic affairs for the department of medicine, where her focus includes helping to enhance faculty development, facilitating the promotion and tenure process, and mentoring junior faculty.
Zimmermann trained in medicine at the University of Wisconsin and in gastroenterology at the University of Michigan. After completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of North Carolina, she returned to the University of Michigan, where she joined the GI division and established her NIH-funded lab.
While at Michigan, she served as GI fellowship director for five years and established and directed the university’s Crohn’s and Colitis Program, which grew to a nationally recognized Center of Excellence in inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, research and innovative clinical care.
Zimmermann joined UF in 2013. Her clinical specialty is caring for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, with particular interest in caring for college students with IBD. Her lab is funded by a U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation grant and an NIH Small Business Innovative Research grant, both on drug discovery. She is an active leader in various national societies, including the American Gastroenterological Association. In her new position, Dr. Zimmermann has a particular interest in faculty retention, facilitating individualized mentoring, career development and women’s programs.
