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The road to commencement: Kavita Rajasekhar

By Christine Velasquez • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story, Students

Kavita Rajasekhar brings her unique brand of humanism and compassion to everything she does.

The road to commencement: Beryl Greywoode has a vision

By Christine Velasquez • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category: Lead Story, Students

Graduating medical student Beryl Greywoode heads to post-civil war Sierra Leone in Africa to run a children’s clinic for her Project RAIN.

MISSION: International Outreach – Project HEAL

By Christine Velasquez • Mar 23rd, 2009 • Category: Lead Story, Students

COM students and faculty bring medical education, aid and supplies to hundreds of people in remote regions of Ecuador.

MISSION: International Outreach – Project Yucatan

By Christine Velasquez • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story

COM students and faculty bring medical education, aid and supplies to hundreds of people in remote regions of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.

MISSION: International Outreach – Project Haiti

By Christine Velasquez • Feb 24th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story, Students

COM faculty and students, along with pharmacy students, will travel to Haiti during spring break to serve hundreds of impoverished people there and in the Dominican Republic.

MISSION: International Outreach – Thailand

By Christine Velasquez • Feb 17th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story, Students

The first student international health trip to Thailand promises to challenge medical students.

Patriarch of UF Anesthesiology dies at 83

By April Frawley Birdwell • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Faculty in the News, Lead Story

Joachim S. “Nik” Gravenstein, M.D., founder of the College of Medicine’s department of anesthesiology and co-inventor of the Human Patient Simulator, died Friday, Jan. 16 after an extended illness.

A Final Goodbye: Med Students Honor Body Donors

By Priscilla Santos • Dec 9th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Students

First-year medical students honored those who donated their bodies to further their education on Dec. 1 during the Class of 2012 Anatomy Commemorative Ceremony.

New patient safety course begins with emotional presentation

By Priscilla Santos • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Horst and Luisa Ferrero addressed first-year medical students during patient safety grand rounds on Oct. 29. The Gainesville couple spoke about how the death of their 3-year-old son Sebastian in October, 2007, drastically changed their lives.

Leader of Human Genome Project to speak at UF

By John Pastor • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

The public is invited to attend a presentation by Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and leader of the Human Genome Project, where he will discuss “Genomics, Medicine and Society.”