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COM Students travel to the Gambia to research country’s health system

Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Students, Top Stories

Seven medical students spend one month learning about trauma care and triage systems while at Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in the Gambia.

Hurricane Ike forces Texas doctor to find new home

Nov 4th, 2008 • Category: Students

The College of Medicine’s department of otolarynology offers a hurricane evacuee a temporary residency slot.

UF urology raises the bar for excellence

Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: Guest Column

The Department of Urology at the College of Medicine recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with a weekend of events that concluded with a black-tie gala held at Emerson Alumni Hall. Former faculty, residents, staff and patients gathered to celebrate past successes and hear about the department’s exciting future. Dr. Johannes Vieweg, the Wayne and Marti [...]

Shands at UF among nation’s top performance-improvement leaders

Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Top Stories

Shands at the University of Florida this week was named one of the nation’s performance improvement leaders by Thomson Reuters, a provider of information and tools for clinical- and business-performance improvement in the healthcare industry.
Shands at UF and its senior management team were recognized for being one of 100 hospitals making the greatest progress in [...]

COM researchers receive JDRF ‘Excellence in Clinical Research Award’

Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Mary Tyler Moore presented the UF College of Medicine diabetes team with a prestigious award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in recognition of their work to accelerate the development of a cure for type 1 diabetes.

UF and Moffitt to Bring Myeloid Cell Scientists Together

Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: Miscellaneous

The UF College of Medicine and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute are organizing a four-day conference that will bring together – for the first time – investigators in fields such as cancer, trauma, autoimmunity and chronic inflammation.