Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., is a nationally recognized leader and tireless advocate for transforming higher education, academic medicine and health care delivery.
He became the eighth chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, vice president of the University of Nebraska system and chair of the board of UNMC’s principal clinical care academic health system partner, Nebraska Medicine, in early 2014.
As UNMC’s chief executive officer, Dr. Gold is responsible for all aspects of campus leadership, program quality and operations, including seven colleges, numerous institutes, a staff and faculty of about 5,000 and its 3,800 students. Additionally, Nebraska Medicine has over 6,500 employees and an operating budget of well more than $1.5 billion. The combined economic impact of the “500-mile campus” academic health center exceeds $4 billion.
In April 2017, Dr. Gold also was named chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the state’s public metropolitan university. The University of Nebraska at Omaha has an enrollment of over 12,000 undergraduate students, 3,000 graduate students, a broad public service mission and an NCAA Division I athletic program.
Dr. Gold holds a health professions academic appointment at the rank of professor in the UNMC College of Medicine, as well as in the UNMC College of Public Health, where his research interests in population health are concentrated.
Prior to joining UNMC, Dr. Gold served as chancellor of the University of Toledo’s academic and clinical health sciences, which includes the colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Science and Human Service, and Graduate Studies. In that role, Dr. Gold had full leadership responsibility of the clinical, education and research programs, the faculty practice plan and the integrated hospital and ambulatory health care delivery system.
Prior to joining the University of Toledo, Dr. Gold served in academic and clinical leadership roles at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Montefiore Medical System as professor, department chair and heart center director and previously at the Weill Cornell College of Medicine – New York Presbyterian Medical Center as professor and division chief of children’s cardiac surgery programs where he was an active academic cardiac surgeon. His research has been extramurally supported for decades, including by the NIH, AHA, AMA, NYSDOH and others.
Dr. Gold is a proud graduate of the Cornell University College of Engineering, where he received a degree in theoretical and applied mechanics. He earned his M.D. from the Weill Cornell College of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at The New York – Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he later served as the administrative chief resident. He completed his cardiothoracic surgical fellowship training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital with additional training in pediatric cardiac surgery at the Boston Children’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Gold has been certified by the American Board of Surgery and by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, specializing in adult and pediatric cardiac surgery.
Dr. Gold's national leadership is extensive, and has included more than 50 national professional committees and more than 100 national organizations, volunteer boards, government/public health councils, and industry. He has recently served as the Chair the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education and the AMA/AAMC’s Liaison Committee on Medical Education. He is a member of the AMA House of Delegates. Dr. Gold has also served in numerous roles on governing boards and as the elected leader of regional and national professional, accreditation and advocacy organizations in the educational, research and clinical care delivery sectors.
Dr. Gold served as president of the Thoracic Surgery Directors Association and was recently elected to the Board of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education as well as several other national leadership positions in the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Medical Association and other prestigious organizations. He has been repeatedly recognized as a Top 50 Health Care Executive and as a Top 100 Physician Executive, as well many national awards for service leading numerous community volunteer programs, philanthropic campaigns and programs. He continues his research interests actively with ongoing publications and presentations and continues to serve several journal editorial boards. Dr. Gold has authored over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 250 national presentations, 40 books and chapters and over 300 invited professorships and keynote presentations.
He has been married for more than 40 years to a physician and has two adult children, currently residing in New York and San Francisco.