William G. Marshall, Jr., MD, MBA

Associate Dean & Associate Vice-President for Clinical Affairs and Venture Development, USF Health; Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery; Assistant Director for the Health Sciences Center and Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies Program; Center for Entrepreneurship

 

Dr. Marshall is the Associate Vice-President, USF Health, and Associate Dean, USF College of Medicine for Clinical Affairs and Venture Development; and an Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery at the University of South Florida (USF). In addition, he is Assistant Director for the Health Sciences Center for the Master’s of Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies Program and the USF Center for Entrepreneurship.

 

His primary responsibilities at the College of Medicine include growth and development of the clinical practice and the University of South Florida Practice Group (USFPG); in addition to Venture Development for USF Health. He is also Director, Scholarly Concentration in Business and Entrepreneurship for the College of Medicine. At the USF Center for Entrepreneurship, he teaches Principles of Intellectual Property and lectures in courses in Strategic Market Assessment for New Technologies, Business Plan Development, New Venture Formation, New Venture Financing, and Technology Entrepreneurship Strategy in the award-winning USF Entrepreneurship Program and in the Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies Program, which he co-developed.

 

He is Director, Cardiac Repair Program, for Saneron-CCEL Therapeutics, Inc., a USF spin-out firm focused on cellular technologies and therapeutics for the treatment of neurologic and cardiac diseases; where he has active research grants, in conjunction with the USF College of Medicine, studying the transplantation of umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells in a porcine model of acute myocardial infarction. Dr. Marshall has consulted for numerous medical device and biotechnology start-ups at USF and in Tampa Bay, and for intellectual property attorneys, venture capitalists, and investment bankers in the Tampa Bay area and nationally.

 

Dr. Marshall completed his MBA at USF in 2003 and was the inaugural USF/Kauffman Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Life Sciences Entrepreneurship 2003 – 2005. He completed his Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies in 2006.

 

Dr. Marshall practiced cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery and critical care for more than twenty years following his attendance of Johns Hopkins University and graduation from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. During this time he was actively involved in the development and evaluation of medical devices, pharmaceutical products, and treatment protocols for cardiovascular, thoracic, and critical care patients. He founded and managed his own successful surgical practice and completed his surgical training at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (General Surgery) and the University of Iowa (Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery).