Michael L. Good

Michael L. Good is an American anaesthesiologist who was the ninth Dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine.[1]

Good was the dean of the University Of Florida College of Medicine,[2] and held numerous leadership positions at UF and its clinical affiliates. Before being named interim dean of the College of Medicine in May 2008, he served as senior associate dean for clinical affairs in the college and chief of staff for UF Health Shands Hospital and Shands AGH.

A professor of anesthesiology, Good is an inventor. Early in his academic career, he led a team of UF physicians and engineers to create the human patient simulator.

Good graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in computer and communication sciences. He also earned his medical degree from Michigan and then went to Gainesville in 1984 to complete residency training in anesthesiology and a research fellowship at UF, where he then joined the College of Medicine faculty in 1988. Good first went to the University of Florida to begin his career as a medical resident, and was on the faculty since 1988. In 1994 became the chief of anesthesiology at VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida. In 2005 he was named associate dean for clinical affairs at the college.