The University of Florida Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center, or SCIRC, celebrated the grand opening of its newly renovated laboratory space Aug. 27 at UF Health Shands Hospital. Philip Efron, M.D., director of the SCIRC and the Cracchiolo Family Professor of Surgery in the UF Department of…
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine AI examines the use of language models for value-informed proxy support. “This research establishes the potential advantages of providing support for the family members and loved ones who are making medical decisions for patients who have lost decision-making capacity…
Building the blueprint for advances in medicine…
Congratulations to all Department of Surgery members who were published in July. Published faculty were Doctors Mohammad Aladaileh, Thomas Beaver, Scott Berceli, Mark Bleiweis, Chasen Croft, Sergio Duarte, Lindsey Goldstein, Jeffrey Jacobs, Eric Jeng, Tyler Loftus, Tomas Martin, Mindaugas Rackauskas, Salvatore Scali, Rushi Shah, Ashish Sharma, Yuriy Stukov, Gilbert Upchurch…
Congratulations to all Department of Surgery members who were published in June! Published faculty were Doctors Letitia Bible, Martin Back, Thomas Beaver, Thiago Beduschi, Scott Berceli, Mark Bleiweis, Michol Cooper, Sergio Duarte, Philip Efron, Thomas Huber, Steven Hughes, Benjamin Jacobs, Jeffrey Jacobs, Eric Jeng, Sailesh Konda, Robert Maile, Tomas Martin,…
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society fellowship will help Ahmet Bilgili pursue data-driven research…
Gilbert Upchurch Jr, M.D., D.H.A., presents a commemorative award to visiting professor Genevieve Melton-Meaux, M.D., Ph.D. The Department of Surgery was pleased to host its annual Research Day event last month, celebrating the amazing breadth and depth of research being done in the department by students, trainees and faculty.
Congratulations to all members of the Department of Surgery who were published in April and May! Published faculty were Doctors Mohammad Aladaileh, Letitia Bible, Mark Bleiweis, Guoshuai Cai, Amalia Cochrane, Sergio Duarte, Philip Efron, Kirsten Freeman, Song Han, Thomas Huber, Steven Hughes, Jeffrey Jacobs, Eric Jeng, Shama Karanth, Tyler Loftus,…
Congratulations to Guoshuai Cai, Ph.D., an assistant professor and director of the University of Florida Surgery Genomics Core, on being awarded the 2026 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors from the University of Florida! Cai recently received a prestigious $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of…
Congratulations to Ali Zarrinpar, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, on being named the recipient of the 2026 Basic Science Established Investigator Award (Senior Career) from the International Liver Transplantation Society! The prestigious award, designed to honor society members who have made…
