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Dr. Heather Fagan, a distinguished pediatric critical care physician and award-winning medical educator, has been named chair of the UCF College of Medicine Nemours Children’s Health Department of Pediatrics.
“In this leadership role, Dr. Fagan will provide strategic direction and oversight for all aspects of the Department of Pediatrics, ensuring the highest standards of patient care, quality and safety, faculty engagement, scholarly activity, education and training, and patient family experience,” said a joint announcement from Drs. Daniel Podberesky, senior vice president and chief medical officer at Nemours Children’s Health, Central Florida, and Deborah German, UCF’s vice president for health affairs and College of Medicine dean.
The announcement also said Dr. Fagan has been appointed chair of the Department of Pediatrics and pediatrician-in-chief at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida and will continue in her role as the hospital’s designated institutional official for graduate medical education.
In 2024, Nemours Children’s Health and UCF announced a formalized, expanded partnership aimed at improving the health of children in Central Florida and beyond. Together, they established the University of Central Florida College of Medicine – Nemours Children’s Health Department of Pediatrics to train the next generation of pediatric physicians. In addition, Nemours Children’s Health signed on as UCF’s first Pegasus Partner whose sole focus is pediatric health care.
Dr. Fagan joined Nemours in 2014 to develop a graduate medical education infrastructure at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Under her leadership, the hospital achieved institutional accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in 2016. She has since overseen the successful accreditation of the pediatrics residency program and multiple subspecialty fellowships, as well as the administration of medical student educational programs and the training of more than 200 visiting residents and fellows annually. She served as interim Chair of Pediatrics from 2020-21 and again this past year.
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