EIT - Jeffrey Gold

Chancellor of University of Nebraska, Medical Center
Abstract

Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., is a nationally recognized leader and tireless advocate for transforming academic medicine and health care delivery.

He became the eighth chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center on Feb.1, 2014. He also chairs the board of UNMC’s principal clinical care system partner, Nebraska Medicine.

Prior to joining UNMC, Dr. Gold served as Chancellor of the University of Toledo’s health science campus, which includes the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Science and Human Service, and Graduate Studies.

Dr. Gold is also a board certified thoracic surgeon and specializes in adult and pediatric cardiac surgery.

As UNMC’s chief executive officer, Dr. Gold is responsible for all aspects of campus administration, including its annual operating budget of more than $740 million, a staff of about 5,000 and its 3,800 students. Dr. Gold holds a health professions academic appointment in the College of Medicine and in the College of Public Health. He also serves as a University of Nebraska System Vice President.

UNMC is one of the nation’s rising academic medical centers and is known for its prolific research, cutting-edge education and a decade-plus building boom of state-of-the-art infrastructure. The ongoing construction includes the $323 million Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, set to open in 2017.