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Ann Randolph Flipse, M.D. was born March 24th, 1933 in San Antonio, Texas. She was the oldest of three daughters to Orel and Jay Randolph.
Dr. Ann was reared in Texas. She was Valedictorian of her high school class, and attended The University of Texas at Austin where she was Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, an officer in her sorority Alpha Delta Phi, then attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, as only one of four women in the class of 1959.
She rotated through City Hospital as a third- year medical student and met the man she would marry, Thomas Edward Flipse, M.D.
Dr. Ann was Chief Resident Physician in Pediatrics at Variety Children’s Hospital in Miami, and it was in Miami, where she practiced pediatrics.
Dr. Ann was a Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics at the University of Miami from 1963-1970.
Dr. Ann was conferred as a Diplomate of The American Board of Pediatrics. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Ann was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.
Dr. Ann was in Who’s Who.
Dr. Ann was honored and acknowledged in Outstanding Young Women Of America, whereby she had been selected to appear in the 1966 Edition of Outstanding Young Women Of America in recognition of her outstanding ability, accomplishments, and service to her community, country, and profession.
Dr. Ann was a member of the Dade County Medical Association; Florida Medical Association; and American Medical Association.
She was President of the Medical Staff at North Shore Medical Center. Dr. Ann was a Member of the North Shore Medical Center Development Advisory Board.
Dr. Ann was on the Board of Trustees at Ransom – Everglades School 1973-1985, where she Chaired numerous regular and ad hoc committees.
To honor her ties to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Ann also established the Ann Randolph Flipse M.D. Scholarship in Medicine where she faithfully contributed to scholarships of students who attend her alma mater, Wash U.
She was instrumental in starting the Class of 1959 50th Reunion Scholarship and keeping the Class alums together with each other through the Class Chronicles that she compiled with all their updates spanning many decades. Dr. Ann won the Washington University School of Medicine Alumni Achievement Award in 2019 at her 60th reunion from medical school.
After practicing pediatrics, Dr. Ann taught at the University of Miami School of Medicine for twenty years as a Professor of Clinical Medicine, where she won many teaching awards, including the George Paff Award for Excellence in Teaching, four times.
She won the UMMW Award for Teaching Basic Sciences.
She won the UMMW Award, two times.
She won the American Medical Women’s Association Gender Equity Award.
Dr. Ann won the University of Miami School of Medicine Teaching Award.
While a Professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Ann was tapped into Iron Arrow, the highest honor society at UM in recognition of constant effort to promote the University and by reason of outstanding character, leadership ability and scholastic achievement.
She then was awarded the Iron Arrow Silver Arrow in recognition of unselfish contributions given to promote the welfare of the Tribe.
At the University of Miami School of Medicine, Dr. Ann was an Instructor and Associate Director of the Health and Human Values course, an Interviewing Instructor and Ethics Discussion Preceptor.
She was the Director of the Clinical Skills Program where she developed and piloted a course that combined interviewing and the physical exam with community preceptor experience sites for first year students to begin the immersion of clinical medicine.
Dr. Ann taught Clinical Skills and the Physical Exam to first year medical students. She implemented and taught a course on Spirituality. She introduced the UM medical students to their first year of medical school, from their very first day and weeks, and saw them through one of their first courses.
She led problem solving sessions for students in the Mechanisms of Disease Course.
She did weekly Ethics Rounds with medical students, as a Discussion Leader, in the Medicine Clerkship.
She did Patient Oriented Problem Solving with medical students as a Medicine Clerkship Group Leader.
Dr. Ann was on the Institute for Women’s Health Leadership Team.
She was Co-Director of the Doctoring Courses, and brought a Humanities in Medicine perspective through Arts in Medicine and physician authors and poems, that described and elucidated, the Art of medicine.
Dr. Ann served on numerous committees and ad hoc committees, and as Chair of many, including the Admissions Committee.
Dr. Ann served on the Basic Science Coordinators Committee, and as Chair of the Freshman Promotions Committee, and served on the Sophomore Promotions Committee. She served on the Curriculum Committee Subcommittee on Student Evaluation.
Dr. Ann served on the University of Miami and the School of Medicine’s Task Force on Substance Abuse, Medical School Curriculum Committee, and the Medical School Curriculum Advisory Committee, and Steering Committee and Chair for the Subcommittee for Faculty Development.
Dr. Ann was part of the Medical Scholars Program Design Committee.
Dr. Ann was an Author and Editor of the Physician Scientist Program, Problem Based Learning Committee. She served as the Problem Based Learning Co-Director.
She was on the Clinical Experience Committee and the Executive Evaluation Committee.
Dr. Ann was Co-Chair at the University of Miami School of Medicine SACS Self Study Committee, and she was a member of the Self- Study Committee on Clinical Teaching.
She was the Office of Teaching and Learning Director and Director of the Comprehensive Competency Assessment.
She was involved with the grant from the National Board of Medical Examiners on evaluating professionalism.
Dr. Ann was the Professionalism Longitudinal Theme Director; she was Chair of the Committee on Longitudinal Theme on Professionalism for New Curriculum.
She was on the Committee on Behavioral and Neurosciences for the New Curriculum.
Dr. Ann was Chair for the Working Group on Grades and Evaluation for New Curriculum as well as Chair on the Working Group on Outcome Competencies for Graduation
Dr. Ann served on many Clinical Ethics committees, including being involved in Clinical Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions.
She was a member of The Society of Bioethics Consultation, and Dr. Ann was part of the Society for Bioethics Consultation in St. Louis.
Dr. Ann was involved with many National Organizations such as the Association of American Medical Colleges, including, the Association of Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education where she was a Board Member, Program Chair, and President elect, and President.
She was a member of the American Academy of Physician and Patient.
She was a member of the Society of Health and Human Values.
She was a member of the Southern Group on Educational Affairs.
Dr. Ann wrote several book chapters in Plenum, Handbook of Health Behavior Research IV, and Hogefe & Huber, The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care.
Dr. Ann authored Abstracts and presented at regional and national meetings:
The Community Resources Project: Visits to Community Services by First Year Medical Students
Student Panels: An Experiential Approach to Teaching Medical Ethics in the First Year Curriculum
Experiential Approaches to Teaching Behavioral Science and Chronic Illness to First- year Medical Students
Child Abuse: The Duty to Care
Ethics Rounds: An Essential Element in Clinical Medical Education
Ambulatory Care Clinics in Underserved Urban Communities as Sites for Learning Physical Diagnosis Skills
Developing a Clinical Experience in the Pre-Clinical Years
Residents as Preceptors for Teaching Sophomore Clinical Skills: A Comparison with Community Based Experiences
Professionalism: Where to Find It, Ways to Evaluate It & How to Assess the Assessment
Enhancing Professionalism Through Arts in Medicine
The Medical Humanities: Compass Points on the Route to Professionalism
The First Team On the Pathway to Professionalism
“It Could Be Verse: Literature for Health Professionals”
Operationalizing Life- Long Learning in the Curriculum
“Humanizing Medical Error”
“Empathy. Equity and Patient- Centered Communication: Essentials for Delivery of Quality Health Care”
“Teaching and Assessment of Core Competencies: Revisiting Interdisciplinary Educational Models”
The Millennials and Medical School-
presentations at the Association of Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education national meeting; The Generalists in Medical Education national meeting; The Southern Group on Educational Affairs of the AAMC regional annual meeting
Self- directed Learning Readiness and Learning Styles Among Freshman Medical Students
Relationship Between Self-directed Learning and Learning Styles Among Medical Students
A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Student Learning Styles in Medical Education
Selectives in the Medical Humanities: A Spoonful of Sugar to Help the Medicine Go Down
In retirement, Dr. Ann had active roles on numerous Boards and Committees. Her service to UNF included being the Student Affairs Community Council Treasurer for several years. She served as Council Chair and Executive Committee Chair. She actively served on and attended meetings for all of the committees such as the Governance Committee, Leadership Committee, Military & Veterans Resource Committee, Scholarship Committee, and Student Well Being Committee, which she worked with other Council members to establish.
Dr. Ann was on the Brooks College of Health Dean’s Council from 2012 to 2023, and she was on the Student Affairs Community Council from 2012 onward.
Dr. Ann also had an established scholarship in the Brooks College of Health that supported students in the exercise science program who intended to pursue a career in medicine. She also funded the red, white, and blue graduation chords to signify military service at commencement each year.
She won the Taylor Leadership Institute’s Leadership Mentor of the Year award for 2023.
Dr. Ann developed and taught several OLLI courses, namely “Music, Two Brains and Medicine” and a course on Generations, and several courses at Christ Episcopal Church.
Dr. Ann is survived by her four children, Thomas Randolph, Matthew Jay, Sara Caroline, and Ann Elizabeth, her daughter in law, Trish Flipse, and her grandchildren, Kaylee Mahony, Thomas Matthew Flipse and Abigail Grace Flipse.
Dr. Ann’s great passion as a retired pediatrician was making it possible for children with cleft lip/palates to get the resolution they need. In lieu of flowers, Shriner’s Children’s Hospital or the Hospital Ship Mercy has this designation where this specifically can be requested.
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Ann Randolph Flipse
24 mars 1933 – 9 juillet 2025
It is with sadness that we share the news of the passing of Ann Randolph Flipse, MD, 92, of Jacksonville, Florida, who passed away on July 9, 2025. She was born in San Antonio, Texas and grew up in Fort Worth with her parents and two sisters. She attended the University of Texas and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She did a residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Variety Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida. She went on to practice Pediatrics in Miami where her husband and she raised their four children.
She loved music and art, and expressed her creativity through needlepoint, creating beautiful works that she shared with family and friends. Above all, she valued education. After she left private medical practice, she joined the faculty of the University of Miami School of Medicine where she taught future doctors for 20 years. She volunteered her time serving on the Board of Trustees at Ransom-Everglades School in Coconut Grove, Florida. After retiring, she relocated to Jacksonville and volunteered at the University of North Florida where she served on a number of Councils and Committees. She created an endowed scholarship at her medical school and established a scholarship at the Brooks College of Health in Jacksonville. She was a lifelong learner, voracious reader, and world traveler.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Edward Flipse, MD. She is survived by her children, Thomas R. Flipse (Trish), Matthew J. Flipse, Sara C. Flipse (Jessi), and Ann E. Flipse and by her three grandchildren, Kaylee, Thomas, and Abigail.
Funeral services will be at Christ Episcopal Church in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida on August 7, 2025 at 11:00 am, and she will be laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery North in Miami, Florida on August 14, 2025 at 10:00 am.
In lieu of flowers, please feel free to send donations to Shriners Children’s Hospital.
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