Two USF Health faculty members were among eight principal investigators of the University’s first seed grants to spur interdisciplinary research aimed at rehabilitating military veterans and helping them adjust and reintegrate into civilian life. The researchers were recognized at the first Veterans Reintegration Synergy Social Hour held Sept. 14 at the USF Interdisciplinary Research Building.  Approximately $300,000 was awarded to eight research teams this spring for the one-year pilot studies funded by the USF Office of Research and Innovation.    Subhra Mohapatra, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine, chats with […]

Michael Sloan, MD, professor of neurology at USF Health who directed the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Tampa General Hospital, died Sept. 9, 2011. He was 57. Dr. Sloan was a major authority in stroke who made substantial contributions to the advances in the field over the past 20 years. The stroke program he led as a USF Health faculty member at TGH since 2007 consistently earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ for health care quality – a disease-specific certification bestowed by the Joint Commission, the nation’s largest health care accreditation […]

Because of his seemingly tireless efforts to provide much-needed medical care to the communities both near USF and in the Dominican Republic, Eduardo Gonzalez, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Hispanic Pathways Award in the tenured faculty category. Dr. Gonzalez will be presented with the award at the USF Hispanic Heritage Kickoff reception Oct. 6 in the Marshall Center Ballroom on the USF Tampa campus. In his nomination letter to the USF Latin Community Advisory Committee, Steven Klasko, MD, MBA, […]

                          Here’s a first look at the newest changes planned for the renovations of the USF Health campus. Above is an illustration of the new USF Health Welcome Center.               The Welcome Center will give USF Health a new “front door” and take the place of the old clinic at the southeast corner of Bruce B Downs Blvd. and Holly Drive.                      The inside of the clinic will be gutted to create the center, which will give a new home to the services that students […]

USF College of Pharmacy will host the international conference Sept. 22-24 Tampa, FL (August 23, 2011) — The first international conference hosted by the University of South Florida College of Pharmacy will focus on ways to improve health care by customizing drug prescribing and treatment based on an individual’s genetic makeup. The 1st Annual International Conference on Developmental, Translational and Clinical Pharmacogenomics will be held Sept. 22 to 24 at the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Health Solutions at the USF Tampa campus, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue. Tampa, […]

Students attending the College of Medicine’s 2nd Annual Scholarly Concentrations Program Student Symposium Aug. 19 got a glimpse of the future of medicine – a future where diagnosis, treatment and disease management are based on an individual’s genetic makeup. Keynote speaker Dr. Leslie Miller discussed the potential of personalized medicine to change the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Keynote speaker Dr. Leslie Miller spoke about this journey toward personalized medicine using cardiovascular disease – his area of expertise – as an example. By 2020 the costs of cardiovascular disease, […]

As USF celebrated its first day of the fall semester, USF Health welcomed the first 53-strong charter class in its brand new College of Pharmacy. Earlier this month, the College of Medicine saw the largest class ever begin, with 19 additional students in the SELECT program. Ashley Connelly (left) from Tampa, and Jameica Dunscomb from the Bahamas are both entering students in the College of Nursing. USF Health First Day Highlights College of Pharmacy: Charter Class Charter class includes 53 students (68% female, 32% male, and 53% Caucasian, 46% minority […]

M. Jason Highsmith, DPT, assistant professor of the USF School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, has been invited to deliver the Brian Blatchford lecture at the 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Prosthetists and Orthotists (ISPO). The meeting is in London, England, in October. Dr. Jason Highsmith Dr. Highsmith’s presentation will be based on a literature review he and a team of investigators published in 2010 in the journal Prosthetics and Orthotics International to determine efficacy of the Otto Bock C-Leg prosthetic knee for persons with […]

Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute gets USF Health’s first PET/CT scan It was delivered on schedule Aug. 1 — all 13,000 pounds of the $1.3-million-dollar baby. By crane, not by stork. With precision logistics, USF Health’s first PET/CT scan system was safely hoisted for installation onto the second floor of the Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute. The high-tech neuroimaging equipment will be a key piece of the Institute’s new Complete Alzheimer’s C.A.R.E. (Clinical Assessment Research & Education) Center, scheduled to open later this year.   Delivery of the 13,000 pound PET/CT scan, including the instrumentation […]

USF’s largest class of first-year medical students enters a profession on the verge of revolutionary changes in health care The largest incoming class in the history of the USF College of Medicine was welcomed into the profession at Friday’s White Coat ceremony. Marching to the front of the Marshall Center Ballroom to the sound of bagpipes, the 139 students took their places at chairs that each held a neatly folded crisp white coat.   The coat represents the beginning of a lifelong journey of learning – a commitment to the profession of medicine […]