Shands Transplant Center at UF is recognized by Health and Human Services in several categories of awards.

The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization has bestowed its Award for Excellence in Life Support to the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program at UF&Shands.

Dr. Daniel Meldrum is the new chief of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in the College of Medicine; he comes to UF from Indiana University.

The Shands at UF Lung Transplant Program celebrates the men and women who have received new life through lung transplantation at Shands at UF.

Andrew L. Warshaw, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, will be speaking on Wednesday, Nov. 9.

Dean Yamaguchi, M.D., was honored with the UF College of Medicine department of surgery’s Hugh A. Walters Humanism in Medicine Award.

The Intrabeam system brings a new era of treatment for breast cancer patients at Shands at UF. The system is an intraoperative radiation technology available at fewer than 20 treatment centers nationwide and the only one in the state of Florida.

The UF Breast Center has been designated as a Center of Excellence by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers for its patient-centered, multidisciplinary approach to delivering excellence in patient care.

UF COM department of surgery researcher Emina Huang, M.D., has received a $1.52 million grant from NIH to study origins of colon cancer.

Dr. Steven Hughes, former chief of gastrointestinal surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is the new chief of general surgery in the College of Medicine.