Professor of Surgery
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr., MD, DHA, is the Copeland/Horowitz Chair at the University of Florida Department of Surgery. He joined UF in 2017 as an internationally acclaimed clinician, researcher and educator. Earning his MD at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Dr. Upchurch trained at Harvard University’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital as well as the Cleveland Clinic. Prior to 2017, he served he was the William H. Muller Jr. Professor of Surgery and chief, vascular and endovascular surgery and the medical director of the Heart and Vascular Center at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Upchurch holds multiple NIH R01’s studying aortic aneurysms. He has given over 500 invited lectures, and published over 515 papers in refereed journals and 115 book chapters. He maintains an active role on numerous peer-reviewed journals and editorial boards. He has also served as editor/ associate editor on 18 books, including multiple editions of “Fischer’s Mastery of Surgery,” “Greenfield’s Surgery: Scientific Principles & Practice,” “Clinical Scenarios in Surgery,” and “Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery.”
He served as Chair of the Vascular Surgery Board and was on American Board of Surgery Council. Presently, he is on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Surgery.
Dr. Upchurch is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery. Dr. Upchurch was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021 and won the prestigious Flance-Karl Award from the American Surgical Association in 2025.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
1:32 PM - 1:54 PM ET