President-Elect, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer
Harry K. Moon, M.D., FACS, FRCSEd
(954) 262-0510
(954) 262-3800 (fax)
hmoon@nova.edu
Harry K. Moon, M.D., will become the seventh president of Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in January 2025. He is NSU’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing most of NSU’s administrative and auxiliary units as well as its clinical health care operations since 2018. He led the integration of NSU’s 30-plus clinics to create NSU Health, a university-affiliated health care network.
Dr. Moon, an internationally renowned reconstructive and plastic surgeon, has had a distinguished medical career and has been instrumental in the development of medical, research, and educational programs in South Florida for the past quarter century. Prior to joining NSU, Dr. Moon’s career included several executive positions for Cleveland Clinic Florida. As Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Cleveland Clinic Florida from 1997 to 2003, he established a fully integrated academic medical center in South Florida.
Preceding his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Cleveland Clinic Florida, Dr. Moon was a physician and Chair of the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery in the Cleveland Clinic Health System and a member of the system’s Board of Governors. Dr. Moon is the founder and President of Himmarshee Surgical Partners, LLC. In 2024, he was appointed a Professor of Anatomy in NSU’s Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences and has served as a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery in NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2008.
Dr. Moon is a highly regarded community leader who has served on the Boards of numerous cultural, civic, and business organizations.
He earned his M.D. degree at the University of South Alabama and his bachelor’s degree in English at Tulane University.
Induction into Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Dr. Moon has been named a Fellow ad hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd). The Royal College, founded five centuries ago under a royal charter from King James IV, is the oldest surgical college in the world and now has more than 32,000 members in more than 140 countries.
Calling the induction "the honor of a lifetime," Dr. Moon reiterated his commitment to healing and helping people. “For me, the greatest joy of medicine is taking care of the patient,” he says. “Second is the joy of expanding the perspective and horizons of young surgeons still forging their paths forward.”