Several Department of Surgery faculty were recognized by the College of Medicine for their outstanding contributions and service. Thomas Huber, M.D., Ph.D., was honored last week at the University of Florida College of Medicine’s annual Spring Faculty Assembly. Huber, who is the Edward R. Woodward Professor of Surgery, received…
Congratulations to Janice Taylor, M.D., M.Ed., on receiving the Philip J. Wolfson Outstanding Teacher Award from the Association for Surgical Education! Taylor, a professor of surgery, received the award at last week’s annual meeting of the association in Atlanta, GA. The award recognizes faculty who play an active…
Congratulations to Guoshuai Cai, Ph.D., an assistant professor and director of the University of Florida Surgery Genomics Core, on being awarded the 2026 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors from the University of Florida! Cai recently received a prestigious $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of…
Congratulations to Ali Zarrinpar, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, on being named the recipient of the 2026 Basic Science Established Investigator Award (Senior Career) from the International Liver Transplantation Society! The prestigious award, designed to honor society members who have made…
Congratulations to Philip Efron, M.D., FACS, FCCM, the Cracchiolo Family Professor of Surgery and director of the Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center, on his selection as a Master of Critical Care Medicine from the Society of Critical Care Medicine! According to the society, this honor is based on Efron’s…
We’re proud to announce that the Department of Surgery has had five residents inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society! Congratulations to: Jeremy Balch, M.D., Ph.D.Michael Kabbash, M.D.Jordan McKean, M.D., M.P.H.Michael Spinosa, M.D.Whitman Wiggins, M.D. Tyler Loftus, M.D., Ph.D., an associate…
Congratulations to Philip Efron, M.D., FACS, FCCM, the Cracchiolo Family Professor of Surgery and director of the Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center, on receiving the 2026 UF College of Medicine Outstanding Research Scientist in Clinical Science award. Efron was one of seven faculty honored at this year’s College of…
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…
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. –…
Data-driven care is an essential component of improving patient outcomes. Nobody knows that better than Benjamin Jacobs, M.D., an assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery and the assistant chair for performance improvement. Benjamin Jacobs, M.D. His team’s commitment to quality improvement culminated in national recognition…
