Kids coached by athletes who share their daily challenges of living with type 1 diabetes  The kids who attended the first annual Sam Fuld USF Diabetes Center Sports Camp this weekend got more than a chance to catch fly balls, practice a tennis swing or hone hoop skills.   Throughout the day the youngsters heard positive messages from the camp coaches, all of whom share their daily challenges of living with type 1 diabetes.  Perhaps none more reassuring than the one emphasized by the  athlete who helped organize the camp, Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Sam Fuld. “I’m a […]

To bolster its effort to fight childhood obesity, the Florida Sports Hall of Fame has partnered with USF’s Denise Edwards, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics and director of the USF Healthy Weight Clinic. At the press conference, Dr. Denise Edwards answers questions about tackling childhood obesity. An expert in childhood obesity, Dr. Edwards joined the group’s statewide effort to tackle childhood obesity and will help coordinate much of the educational components of the program. Dr. Edwards was introduced at a FSHOF press conference held Feb. 24 at […]

Clearly, USF is meeting a need. Since opening the TEAMS Center two years ago, the simulation training program has hosted more than 2,600 learners and provided more than 12,000 learner hours to healthcare professionals from varied disciplines throughout the Tampa Bay area and from as far away as China. And those numbers are about to increase with the opening in March of USF’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), a state-of-the-art simulation center that includes high-tech robots for training surgeons. The TEAMS (Team Education and Multidisciplinary Simulation) Center […]

USF’s Meredeth A. Rowe, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN, was selected as finalist in the inaugural selection process for a Florida Innovative Development for Economic Advancement (IDEA) grant, which offers early-stage financing to promising technology companies in central Florida that need help bridging the gap between initial product development and venture capital funding. Dr. Rowe, who is professor and the Lewis and Leona Hughes Endowed Chair in Nursing Science at the USF College of Nursing, submitted Caregiver Watch, a small business she owns that produces AlzAlert™, a night home monitoring system […]

Day-long celebration includes announcement of two new multimillion grants for diabetes research To cheers, applause and the snip of scissors across green satin ribbon, USF’s long-standing diabetes program ceremoniously opened its new facility Nov. 14 – World Diabetes Day – on the fifth floor of the Carol & Frank Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare. Families coping with diabetes, community supporters, elected officials, local media, physicians, researchers and support staff crowded into the new Center’s lobby in the morning, craning to see for themselves the opening of a comprehensive center that […]

While most of us were spending our past weekend with family, doing projects around the house, and maybe watching the USF Bulls play football, students and faculty from the College of Public Health spent the better part of their Saturday building a playground. With the help of KaBOOM – a not-for-profit organization that funds playground equipment in places where the resources are most needed but ill afforded – the COPH team and other members of the Tampa community turned an empty lot on the corner of 15th Street and 19th […]

Two USF Health physicians – Dr. Charles E. Cox and Dr. John T. Sinnott — are among the winners of the 2011 Healthcare Heroes Awards bestowed Oct. 13 by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. Now in its eighth year, the program honors practitioners, professionals and volunteers in 10 categories, representing a wide range of disciplines, institutions and locales across the Tampa Bay area.     The awards recognize USF Health’s Dr. Charles Cox, left, and Dr. John Sinnott as Tampa Bay leaders in health care. Dr. Cox, professor of surgery at […]

Todd Buchanan knew he needed a medical physical – his family’s health history has some red flags in it, and he was approaching one of life’s age milestones. He knew it was time to see a doctor. But, as senior vice president of VALIC for all of the southeastern United States, scheduling the appointment would be tricky, if not impossible. Todd Buchanan gladly shares his experience with USF’s Monsour Executive Wellness Center Then a colleague directed him to the Monsour Executive Wellness Center at USF Health, a program designed specifically […]

Sarasota, FL (Oct. 3, 2011) — The Patterson Foundation announced today that it has extended its $5.6 million collaborative partnership with USF Health for the Bringing Science Home initiative from three years to five years. In addition, The Patterson Foundation announced a dollar-for-dollar matching challenge up to $2 million for donations benefiting Bringing Science Home. This challenge creates the potential for a $4 million endowment for the initiative to ensure it thrives financially in perpetuity. L to R: Nicole Johnson, Bringing Science Home executive director; Debra Jacobs, CEO and president […]

Johnson will be joined by several USF Health clinicians with diabetes expertise USF Health diabetes expertise will be front and center at the Taking Control of Your Diabetes Conference & Health Fair this Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Tampa Convention Center. Featured speaker Nicole Johnson, MPH, executive director of Bringing Science Home at USF Health, will speak on the topic “Living Well with Diabetes. Johnson, Miss America 1999, works to promote awareness, prevention and early detection of diabetes – a condition she has lived with since 1993.  Johnson and Denise […]