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. …
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…
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,…
For the past three years, the University of Florida International Aortic Symposium has brought together leading minds from across the globe to explore the latest advancements and techniques in aortic surgery, endovascular surgery and vascular surgery. At the forefront is Tomas Martin, M.D.,…
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…
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…
Department of Surgery staff members continued a tradition of bagging up Halloween goodies to pass out to pediatric patients at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital.
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,…
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. –…
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…
