Last week we bid a fond farewell to Edra Ijames, who has long been an institution of both the UF Department of Surgery and the College of Medicine. Edra first came to the department in 1994 where she served as a program assistant and senior secretary. In 1998, she became…
Latest results from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients place UF Health’s adult kidney transplant program first in the nation for one-year graft survival and its adult liver transplant program among the country’s top three. New data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients once again place UF Health’s…
Dijoia Darden, M.D., an acute care surgery fellow in the University of Florida Department of Surgery, has received funding support from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Research & Education Fund. The one-year, $50,000 pilot grant will allow Darden to study the repurposing of fostamatinib — normally…
Left to right: Sarah Jane Commander, M.D., M.S.; Erik Anderson, M.D., M.S.; Meixi Ma, M.D., M.S. Members of the Department of Surgery gathered Sunday, June 28 at the Hotel Indigo Gainesville-Celebration Pointe to celebrate the graduating cohort of our Vascular Surgery Fellowship program. We are pleased to congratulate Erik Anderson,…
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,…
Congratulations to Ibrahim Nassour, M.D., MSCS, on his appointment as assistant chair for performance improvement and physician director of quality for the Department of Surgery! In this role, Nassour, an assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, will serve as one of two departmental leaders for quality and…
The Department of Surgery gathered to honor its 2026 graduates last Saturday, June 27. The graduation ceremony and dinner, along with an awards ceremony on June 26, honored not only the amazing residents who are embarking on the next steps of their careers but also to the many outstanding physicians,…
We’re extremely proud to announce that ten faculty in the UF Department of Surgery have received promotions, effective July 1, 2026! Loretta Coady-Fariborzian, M.D., Chasen Croft, M.D., and Georgios Vrakas, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., have been promoted to professor. Kalyan Dadireddy, M.D., M.S., M.ch., Ben Jacobs, M.D., Jessica Taylor, M.D., M.B.A.,…
“Nobody else would have done what Dr. Peek did for my daughter.”…
Benjamin Jacobs, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, has recently been promoted to the role of chief quality officer for UF Health Shands. Benjamin Jacobs, M.D. In his new position, Jacobs will oversee quality and patient safety improvement efforts across UF Health Shands hospital locations in…
