36 as president and chairman of the board of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and as a member of the foundation’s board of trustees from 2001 to 2003. As chief executive officer and chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Florida Board of Governors from 1997 to 2003, he established an integrated academic medical center in South Florida. Moon’s longtime affiliation with the Cleveland Clinic began in 1984, where he served in various administrative and medical positions, including head of microvascular surgery; head of the microvascular surgical, teaching, and research laboratory; and chairman of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He also served as chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Florida Health Plan from 1992 to 2001. In addition to being the founder and president of Himmarshee Surgical Partners of Fort Lauderdale, Moon has been a clinical associate professor of surgery in NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2008. He was appointed professor of anatomy in NSU’s Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences in 2024. In 2024, Moon was elected as a fellow ad hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh—the oldest surgical college in the world, which was founded five centuries ago. He is a frequently published researcher and sought-after speaker in the United States and abroad. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Moon earned his M.D. degree in 1978 from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine and completed surgical residencies at the University of Hawaii, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English at Tulane University. His lifetime of achievement stretches back to his high school days when he was an outstanding athlete in Alabama, earning acclaim as an all-state basketball player and a state record holder in the decathlon, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, 440-yard dash, and mile relay. These accomplishments helped him earn an athletic scholarship to Tulane. o After interviewing 7 finalists from an original pool of 700 applicants, Harry K. Moon joined NSU in 2018 as executive vice president and chief operating officer. DID YOU KNOW? NSU’s new president was a record-holding student-athlete. (continued from page 34) HAIL TO THE SURGEON-IN-CHIEF
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