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Lead Story news at the College of Medicine
The road to commencement: Kavita Rajasekhar
By Christine Velasquez • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story, StudentsThe road to commencement: Beryl Greywoode has a vision
By Christine Velasquez • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category: Lead Story, StudentsGraduating 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, StudentsCOM 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 StoryCOM 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, StudentsCOM 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, StudentsThe 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 StoryJoachim 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, StudentsFirst-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 StoryHorst 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 StoryThe 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.”






