For Faculty
MCOM Faculty Compensation Plan
Compensation Redesign
We are evolving faculty compensation within USF Health’s Morsani College of Medicine (MCOM) to meet the shifting health care landscape, advance our expanded affiliation with Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and support continued alignment with our three-part mission of education, research and patient care.
Goals & Guiding Principles
Throughout the compensation redesign process, we’ve worked to build an overarching plan and supporting models that align with the following goals:
- Competitive: Through our redesigned compensation plan, we will recognize faculty for the exceptional work they deliver each day while remaining competitive within our market to recruit new faculty members to our talented team of experts.
- Sustainable: Our redesign will focus on creating a financially sustainable solution in alignment with newly developed funds flow model governing the MCOM and TGH affiliation.
- Transparent: We will work to streamline our approach and create one overarching plan that offers clarity and consistency for leadership and faculty, bringing faculty along in the journey throughout our planning and development period (Year 0).
Transition Approach
As we move through this work, we’re pursuing a phased approach, developing models to support each of our distinct faculty groups, including our physicians, advanced practice providers (APPs) and basic sciences faculty.
We began this work by developing the overarching compensation model for clinically active faculty physicians, partnering closely with chairs and department administrators to apply the model to their specific division and/or department, ensuring that we appropriately recognize the unique work our faculty members are leading within their area of expertise.
Tools and Resources
General Updates
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At MCOM, we’re Making Life Better by driving better learning outcomes, accelerating collaborative research discoveries and saving lives and improving health for the patients, families and communities we serve.
Since our founding in 1971, we’ve been affiliated with Tampa General Hospital (TGH). In 2024, we took a historic step to strengthen our affiliation and increase clinical integration as part of our ongoing work to recruit best-in-class providers and advance research initiatives while continuing to grow the region’s economy and create jobs.
As a result of our new affiliation agreement, TGH will direct more than $162 million to USF Health in 2025, which reflects a significant investment in the University. As part of our compensation redesign efforts, we’re working to reflect this significant investment in our faculty compensation.
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For the first fiscal year of this plan, from July 2024 – June 2025, we engaged in a “shadow period” (also known as Year 0). This temporary period allows our leaders and faculty to test the new compensation plan without any negative impact to their current compensation. As a result, faculty were “held harmless” through June of this year. Starting July 2025, we will begin Year 1, during which the redesigned compensation plan will launch.
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To support model development and implementation, we engaged Chartis – the nation’s leading health care consulting firm – and pulled together the MCOM Compensation Committee and the Introductory Steering Committee, bringing together faculty, chairs and department administrators.
All proposals will also be reviewed by the USMA Board of Directors.
Compensation Committee Members
Dr. Charles J. Lockwood, Executive Vice President, USF Health, Dean, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
Renee Dubault, Senior Associate Vice President & Chief of Staff, USF Health, Chief Executive Officer, University Medical Service Association
Dr. Javier Cuevas, Senior Associate Vice President of Faculty and Academic Affairs, USF Health, Vice Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs, MCOM
Dr. Eric Coris, Professor, Orthopaedics and Family Medicine, Director, Primary Care Sports Medicine, Chair, Department of Family Medicine, MCOM
Dr. Nishit S. Patel, Professor, Dept of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery, Associate Residency Program Director, Dept of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery
Dr. Ryan Wagoner, Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, MCOM
Dr. Nicholas Panetta, Chair, Department of Plastic Surgery, Associate Professor, Plastic Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Director, USF Cancer Related Lymphedema Program
Andre Spitzer, Assistant Vice President and Deputy Chief of Staff, USF Health
Share Your Voice
Submit your questions or feedback to the form, and our team will respond.
For additional information and details, review the Frequently Asked Questions listed on the pages established for your faculty group.