Dr. James Seeger’s influence will forever guide us, and his memory will never be forgotten.

Dr. Paul Okunieff has been named director of the University of Florida Shands Cancer Center and chairman of the UF College of Medicine department of radiation oncology.

Kenneth I. Berns, M.D., Ph.D., director of the University of Florida Genetics Institute has been named to the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity.

Gov. Crist extends term of MBI executive director on scientific advisory board.

University of Florida researcher, Gregory Schultz, Ph.D., has been named director of the College of Medicine’s Medical Sciences Research Program.

Jamie Beth Conti, M.D., was appointed chief of the division of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine.

Shands at UF receives recognition from the Agency for Health Care Administration for comprehensive stroke program.

Wilmer Nichols, Ph.D., former director of basic cardiovascular research at UF’s College of Medicine, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award Friday from ARTERY, the Association for Research in Arterial Structure and Physiology.

Anthony A. Bavry, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine at the COM, has been named the Stop Heart Disease Researcher of the Year by the Florida Heart Research Institute.

Christopher Cogle, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the COM collaborates on a book focused on cancer microenvironment.