Robert Feezor, M.D., an assistant professor in the UF department of surgery’s division of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy, recently was invited to speak at Virginia Commonwealth University as the H.M. Lee Lecturer. H. M. Lee, M.D., was an internationally renowned pioneer in organ transplantation and a former professor…
The news hit Tracy Cantella like a load of bricks: She had BRCA 1, the gene infamous for greatly increasing a woman’s risks of breast and ovarian cancer. She had watched her paternal grandmother battle both, and eventually succumb to breast cancer. Recalling her grandmother’s ordeal and thinking of…
UF Health Springhill located on NW 39th Avenue in Northwest Gainesville. UF Health’s outpatient clinics for plastic surgery, vein surgery and breast, melanoma and endocrine surgery have moved to UF Health Springhill. The UF Health Plastic…
Lisa R.P. Spiguel, M.D., has joined the University of Florida department of surgery as an assistant professor in the division of general surgery’s surgical oncology service. Spiguel’s clinical focus is on the surgical care of breast cancer and benign breast disease, the assessment of high risk breast cancer patients, as…
Heather Smith was just 25 years old in 2005 when she learned she had breast cancer. She received the diagnosis on her daughter’s second birthday. “It was kind of a stressful, shocking situation,” she said. “You have to relearn how to feel feminine. My husband and I…
Immune system responses are key to our health: too much or too little and the body takes a beating. Understanding how patients’ immune systems respond could open the door for a new kind of personalized medicine, and UF scientists are playing vital roles in moving this research forward.
Dr. Bruce Mast will present Plastic Surgery: Facts and Fiction at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 15, 2012. The seminar, held at the Shands Cancer Hospital at the University of Florida located at 1515 SW Archer Road, is sponsored by the Women’s Advantage program. Free parking for seminar attendees is available…
Andrew L. Warshaw, M.D., the W. Gerald Austen Distinguished Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief and chairman emeritus of the department of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, will lecture on “View from the Eye of the Health Care Hurricane” at 7:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov.
