Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont is a Belgian-American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher, and former dean of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Until January 2016 he also served as chief executive officer of the University of Miami Health System (UHealth), which includes six hospitals and outpatient facilities in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Monroe and Collier counties. Career A native of Belgium, Goldschmidt received his medical degree from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and completed residency and fellowship training in Brussels at Hôpital Erasme and in the United States at Johns Hopkins University. Following his training at Hopkins, he served as an associate professor in the university's Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Department of Pathology, and Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine until 1997. Until 2000, Goldschmidt was director of cardiology at Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, where he built the Heart and Lung Research Institute and a heart hospital. Goldschmidt joined the Duke University Medical Center in 2000, serving as chief of the Division of Cardiology, then as chair of the Department of Medicine. Goldschmidt joined the University of Miami in April 2006, and in November 2007 oversaw the purchase of Cedars Medical Center, which is now the University of Miami Hospital, the flagship hospital of UHealth. Following the layoff of 800 employees in June 2012, this rapid expansion was reported to be a contributing factor to Miller Medical School's financial troubles. Since 2006, the research center has also seen the creation of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics and the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute. New global health clinical and research initiatives during Goldschmidt's term at Miami included the Global Institute for Community Health and Development and the International Medicine Institute. The former institute played a key role in the medical relief effort in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake. A team of Miller School physicians, nurses and staff was the first to arrive in Port-au-Prince, and within nine days of the earthquake the University of Miami Hospital in Haiti was open and treating patients. Awards and recognition In October 2008, Goldschmidt received the inaugural Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences from the Ohio State University Heart and Vascular Center, awarded biennially for recognized work in the clinical sciences of cardiovascular medicine, cardiothoracic surgery, or the basic sciences of molecular or cellular cardiology. Goldschmidt's research applies genomics