NSU’s President-Elect Named to Royal College of Surgeons

Harry K. Moon, M.D., FACS, FRCSEd., Nova Southeastern University’s president-elect, executive vice president and chief operating officer, has been named a Fellow ad hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a professional qualification required to practice as a surgeon in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

With decades of experience in health care innovation, Dr. Moon joins the ranks of the prestigious Royal College, founded in 1505 under a royal charter from King James IV. It is the oldest surgical college in the world with nearly 32,000 members in 100 countries. Its Fellows champion the highest standards of surgical and dental practice while also standing at the leading edge of technological developments like virtual reality, robotics and simulation.

The power to grant certification for the Royal College of Surgeons is reserved exclusively for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Before joining NSU in 2018, Dr. Moon’s distinguished career included roles such as chief executive officer of Cleveland Clinic Florida. Preceding his Cleveland Clinic appointment, Dr. Moon was a staff physician and chair of the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery for the Cleveland Clinic Health System as well as a member of the Cleveland Clinic Board of Governors and Cleveland Clinic Foundation Board of Trustees. Under Moon’s leadership, Cleveland Clinic Florida initiated efforts to establish a fully integrated academic medical center in South Florida.

Dr. Moon has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of NSU since 2018. He led the university’s COVID Response Team through the university’s rapid transition to fully online learning during the pandemic, allowing NSU to sustain and increase enrollments. NSU was one of Broward County’s first free vaccine sites for the university and surrounding community.

Dr. Moon also led the integration of NSU’s clinical practices to create NSU Health, a university-affiliated health care network.

A distinguished and internationally recognized plastic and reconstructive surgeon, he has been a clinical associate professor of surgery in NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2008 and is now a professor of anatomy at NSU’s Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences.

Dr. Moon will begin his tenure as the seventh president of NSU in January 2025.

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Posted 04/10/24