USF Health Leadership
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John Curran, MD
Associate Vice President for Academic & Faculty Affairs, USF Health
Senior Executive Associate Dean, USF College of Medicine


John S. Curran, MD, leads a new effort as head of the academic affairs and faculty development for USF Health. As Associate Vice President for USF Health Academic and Faculty affairs, Dr. Curran is directing the rank and tenure process, and leading a new initiative in faculty development. Within the USF College of Medicine, Dr. Curran is the sole authority on academic and faculty affairs in his role as Senior Associate Dean.

Dr. Curran is a charter member of the University of South Florida College of Medicine faculty and a founding neonatologist at Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and among the creators of the Hillsborough County Health Plan in the early 1990’s. As an academic physician and educator, Dr. Curran is recognized statewide as someone who’s effectively built bridges with organized medicine, the community, academic medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics- Florida Chapter (AAP). A past president and member of the Board of Directors for AAP, Dr. Curran represented doctors in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Puerto Rico.

Dr. Curran graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, College of Medicine with training in internal medicine and pediatrics including the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. More...