“It’s no big deal.” That was the first thought of Adela Van Antwerp, a UF College of Medicine department of surgery administrative specialist, when her radiologist found a questionable mass in her right breast. …
Bruce Mast, M.D., FACS, professor and chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine, has been appointed interim chair of the department of surgery. He replaces Kevin Behrns, M.D., who previously held the position since 2009. Behrns joined the UF College of Medicine in…
Robert J. Feezor, M.D., FACS, an associate professor in the division of vascular surgery at the UF College of Medicine, has relocated from Gainesville to UF Health’s new surgery practice in Daytona Beach. Feezor began seeing patients at UF Health Heart and Vascular Surgery – Halifax Health on Nov.
Nineteen members of the UF College of Medicine faculty, along with two from the College of Nursing, three from the College of Pharmacy, two from the College of Veterinary Medicine and one from the College of Public Health and Health Professions, were recognized for their achievements at the Celebrating Distinction…
A UF Health systemwide quality improvement initiative aims to simplify discharge instructions that patients receive before they leave the hospital. The after-visit summary, or AVS, is designed to provide patients with information about their stay or surgical procedure, how to care for themselves after discharge, and who to call if…
Statistics show that the less time a patient spends on a ventilator, the better the outcomes. The risks associated with prolonged time on a ventilator range from swollen vocal chords, tracheal damage and difficulty swallowing to ventilator-associated pneumonia and sepsis. By revising a cardiothoracic perioperative respiratory bundle, UF Health Shands…
Surgical residents face myriad challenges in the first weeks of their intern year as they transition from students to clinicians. “The hardest part about being an intern is that you don’t feel ready to be a doctor,” said George Sarosi, M.D., the Robert H. Hux Professor in the…
The University of Florida Health Cancer Center has been selected as one of 12 initial clinical trial sites participating in Precision Promise, the first large-scale precision medicine trial designed to transform outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer. An initiative of the national nonprofit organization Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, Precision…
“Sepsis is now the most expensive in-hospital condition in America. In fact, it is responsible for more deaths in America than AIDS, prostate cancer and breast cancer combined,” said Philip Efron, M.D., co-director of Laboratory of Inflammation Biology and Surgical Science and part of the UF Sepsis and Critical Illness…
