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Scott Hunter

Exploring data‑driven pathways to predict sepsis

Robert Maile, Ph.D., has long been interested in the early diagnosis of sepsis in patients with severe burns, which cause immune system suppression, allowing infection to take hold more easily and to grow more quickly in severity. One of the challenges, Maile said, is that many of the hallmarks…

Jeremy Balch, M.D., Ph.D., receives inaugural AI award

Fourth-year general surgery resident Jeremy Balch, M.D., Ph.D., was among three University of Florida innovators recently honored with an inaugural AI Research Award from the University of Florida Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Research Institute. The awards recognize AI research “from across a continuum of disciplines and individuals, from…

September 2025 publications

Congratulations to all Department of Surgery members who were published in September! Published faculty were Doctors Mohammad Aladaileh, Martin Back, Thomas Beaver, Thiago Beduschi, Mark Bleiweis, Dejana Braithwaite, Philip Efron, Kirsten Freeman, Thomas Huber, Benjamin Jacobs, Jeffrey Jacobs, Tyler Loftus, Robert Maile, Lyle Moldawer, Alicia Mohr, Ibrahim Nassour, Giles Peek,…

Seven Department of Surgery faculty recognized as exemplary teachers

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Exemplary Teacher award! Eligible faculty are nominated by their department chairs and are selected based on their record of education excellence with medical students, residents and fellows, graduate students, postdocs and mentorship of other faculty. This year’s recipients were: Jeffrey Jacobs, M.D. –…

August 2025 publications

Congratulations to all Department of Surgery members who were published in August! Published faculty were Doctors Mazen Al-Mansour, Thomas Beaver, Dejana Braithwaite, Guoshuai Cai, Michol Cooper, Sergio Duarte, Kirsten Freeman, Thomas Huber, Shama Karanth, Sailesh Konda, Tyler Loftus, Robert Maile, Giles Peek, Steven Raymond, Salvatore Scali, and Gilbert Upchurch. ACS…

July 2025 publications

Congratulations to everybody published in July! Published faculty were Doctors Thomas Beaver, Kevin Behrns, Scott Berceli, Mark Bleiweis, Sergio Duarte, Philip Efron, Kirsten Freeman, Jeffrey Jacobs, George Sarosi, Song Han, Thomas Huber, Steven Hughes, Shawn Larson, Tyler Loftus, Ibrahim Nassour, Mindaugas Rackauskas, Steven Raymond, Martin Rosenthal, Salvatore Scali, Samir Shah,…