Frederick Southwick

Dr. Frederick Southwick, a professor and the chief of infectious diseases at the University of Florida College of Medicine, traded in his white coat and stethoscope for blue jeans and a backpack this year.

The 64-year-old has gone back to school at Harvard University and has a book in the works that could reduce the number of medical errors afflicting the health care system in the United States.

• Course Director - Fixing Healthcare Delivery, 4th year clinical elective (flipped classroom format)
  • Designing projects to improve patient care quality and safety Dept. of Medicine
  • Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases 1991-2011
  • NIH funded biomedical investigator 1981-2015 - Listeria and Shigella pathogenesis, anthrax toxin effects on innate immunity, macrophage and neutrophil actin-based motility.
  • Infectious Diseases Consultant and Internal Medicine inpatient attending physician
  • Admitting Officer of the Day UF Shands Adult Emergency Room
  • January 2017 Appointed Director of Patient Care Quality and Safety, Division of Hospitalist Medicine

Education

• BA Yale University (1964 — 1968)
• MD Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (1968 — 1973)
• Certificate Harvard University (2010 — 2011)
• Certificate of Completion Virginia Mason Institute (2016)
• Certificate Coursera

Companies

• Course Director: Fixing Healthcare Delivery 2.0: Advanced Lean Coursera (2017)
• Course Director "Fixing Healthcare Delivery" Coursera (2014)
• Author - Critically Ill: A 5-point plan to cure healthcare delivery Southwick Press (2014)
• Author: Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short Course Author (2013)
• Co-Founder Empowered Patient Coalition of Gainesville Empowered Patient Coalition of Gainesville (2013)
• Associate Editor Journal Of Infectious Diseases (2003)
• Professor Medicine University of Florida (1991)
• Consultant Grady Health System (2015 — 2017)
• Projects Manager of New Quality and Safety Intiatives UF & Shands Health Care System (2011 — 2014)

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Epidemiology
• Organizational Effectiveness

Other

Lifesciences, Life Sciences, Health Policy, Overcoming Adversity, Statistics, Patient Advocacy, Leadership Development, Program Development, Physicians, Nursing, Inpatient, Grant Writing, Immunology, Pediatrics, Patient Safety, Research, Teaching, Medical Research, Leadership, Clinical Research, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Public Speaking, Public Health, Medical Education, Medicine, Healthcare