Dr. David S. Guzick, MD, PhD
Senior Vice Chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Dr. David S. Guzick, MD, PhD, has a long history of impactful leadership roles in academic health sciences centers. Before being appointed as the Senior Vice Chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans in February, 2026, he previously had served as chancellor of LSU Health Shreveport, senior vice president for health affairs at the University of Florida and president of UF Health, dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester, and as the Henry A. Thiede professor and chair of the University of Rochester’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
In each of his academic leadership positions, Dr. Guzick has significantly advanced education, research, and patient care. While at LSU Health Shreveport, he created a research environment for faculty productivity and recruitment that increased extramural awards by 14% annually while also developing a strategy for renovating a 166,000 sq ft abandoned Sears property into a modern laboratory research building. Under his leadership at Florida, the UF Health hospital system and six health science colleges were brought together as an integrated academic health center, resulting in transformative improvements in patient care quality (earning best-hospital ranking in 12 adult and pediatric specialties from U.S. News, the most in Florida), NIH funding (increasing from $60 million annually to $130 million), and educational innovation (designing a medical education building that housed a new curriculum emphasizing small-group, active learning), as well as a dramatic expansion in research, hospital, and outpatient facilities. While at Rochester, Dr. Guzick was principal investigator for their NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, winning that award during its first funding cycle.
Dr. Guzick earned his medical and doctoral degrees from NYU as part of the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program. His PhD was in economics with specialty concentrations in health economics and econometrics. 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. Continuously funded by NIH for over 20 years prior to his appointment at UF and internationally recognized for his research on a variety of topics in reproductive medicine, Dr. Guzick was elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2004 and to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008. His recent book, The U.S. Health Care Industry: Balancing Care, Cost and Access, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2020, and he now is teaching a class in health economics at LSU.