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Mazen Al-Mansour invited to ACHQC board

Congratulations to Mazen Al-Mansour, M.B.B.S., on his invitation to sit on the board of directors of the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative! “I am hoping to help improve the quality of care that we deliver to patients with hernias and abdominal wall pathologies by collaborating with other national and international…

November 2025 publications

Congratulations to all Department of Surgery members who were published in November! Published faculty were Doctors Scott Berceli, Letitia Bible, Dejana Braithwaite, Harvey Chim, Philip Efron, Jennifer Fieber, Song Han, Steven Hughes, Jeffrey Jacobs, Shama Karanth, Robert Maile, Alicia Mohr, Ibrahim Nassour, Giles Peek, Salvatore Scali, Samir Shah, Aditya Shirali,…

Giving the gift of life, times three

On a sunny December afternoon in a room high atop the UF Health Heart and Vascular Hospital, overlooking the University of Florida campus, six people whose lives are now intertwined forever met for the first time. …

UF Health Aortic Disease Center hosts third annual International Aortic Symposium

The third annual University of Florida International Aortic Symposium, held Dec. 4-6 at the Signia by Hilton in Orlando, explored the latest advancements and techniques in aortic surgery, endovascular surgery and vascular surgery. Participants had the opportunity to deepen their expertise across nine focused sessions that…

October 2025 publications

Congratulations to everybody published in October! Published faculty were Doctors Thomas Beaver, Guoshuai Cai, Philip Efron, Kirsten Freeman, Song Han, Steven Hughes, Jeffrey Jacobs, Sailesh Konda, Tyler Loftus, Robert Maile, Tomas Martin, Lyle Moldawer, Giles Peek, Mindaugas Rackauskas, Steven Raymond, Martin Rosenthal, George Sarosi, Salvatore Scali, Ashish Sharma, Aditya Shirali,…

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…