Surgical resident earns regional award for research presentation
Alex Cuenca, M.D., a UF surgical resident, received an award for “Best Basic Science Presentation” from the American College of Surgeons’ Region IV Committee on Trauma. He…
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Moore named Society of Critical Care Medicine fellow
The Society of Critical Care Medicine has selected Frederick A. Moore, M.D., as a Master Critical Care Medicine Fellow. Moore and 19 other health-care providers will receive the designation, which is being awarded for the first time at the society’s 41st Clinical Care Congress in Houston in February. Moore, chief…
Patton receives American Society of Transplant Surgeons award
Pamela Patton, P.A., M.S.P., will receive the 2012 American Society of Transplant Surgeons Advanced Transplant Provider Award at the society’s Annual State of the Art Winter Symposium, to be held in January in Miami. Patton serves as the Clinical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at UF. She has worked…
Aging alone does not explain breakdown in liver cell processes, UF research team finds
UF department of surgery researchers have uncovered more information about why elderly patients often fare poorly after liver surgery, and why livers donated by elderly people often experience ischemia-reperfusion injury during transplantation, while younger people’s livers typically are more stable. Ischemia-reperfusion injury is a form of damage that occurs when…
Giving thanks for life after lung transplant
She spent Thanksgiving with friends in Cedar Key that year, eating dinner and watching as a few of the men put up walls in the house being built on the land. But it was the call she received as they drove home across the Cedar Key bridge that Debbie…
Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program funds Huang’s colon cancer research
Emina Huang, M.D., an associate professor of surgery in UF’s College of Medicine, has received a $180,000 grant from the Florida Department of Health’s Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program to fund her research into the origins of colon cancer. Huang and her team of researchers will work with cancer cells and…
Dr. Andrew Warshaw to lecture on Nov. 9
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.
UF vascular surgeons hold first meeting of statewide study group
The Florida Vascular Study Group, FVSG, which fosters collaboration statewide among physicians and hospitals to collect and analyze clinical data from patients undergoing vascular procedures, held its first meeting on Oct. 27 at Shands at UF. Led by Adam W. Beck, M.D., a UF assistant professor of surgery, the…
UF surgeon co-chairs American Cancer Society’s breast cancer walk
Christiana Shaw, M.D., M.S., a UF assistant professor of surgery and a surgical oncologist, co-chaired the 2011 American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k Walk, held in October. Shaw and Karen Daily, M.D., an assistant professor in UF’s division of hematology/oncology organized the walk and…
Department of surgery welcomes new faculty members
The University of Florida’s department of surgery welcomes six new faculty members this fall to the acute care surgery team, and to the divisions of general surgery, pediatric surgery and transplantation surgery. Three of the new faculty members have joined the acute care surgery team: Fitzgerald J. Casimir, M.D., as…