News & Announcements
UF Neurologist Featured on SkyRadio
People who fly during the month of May will have the chance to listen to a University of Florida neurologist on Sky Radio. Alan Berger, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, will be talking about peripheral neuropathy. It’s a little known disease that affects hundreds of thousands of Floridians and over 20 million Americans. Sadly, unless it’s diagnosed early, this progressive nerve disease can become severely debilitating. A good number of physicians, and most of the population, are relatively unaware of this common, and often crippling condition. [more...]
Outstanding Poster Winners Announced During Medical Education Week
The University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville announced the faculty and resident winners of the 2008 Medical Education Week poster exhibit. [more...]
Honors & Awards
Morrissey Awarded Teacher of the Year
Tom Morrissey, M.D., a University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville assistant professor of emergency medicine and clerkship director, has been named the 2008 College of Medicine Clinical Science Teacher of the Year. Morrissey was presented with the award during the college’s annual awards banquet Monday, April 28 at Emerson Alumni Hall in Gainesville, Fla. [more...]
Chapman Society Inducts College of Medicine-Jacksonville Residents
Candra L. Street, M.D., University of Florida Department of Pediatrics and Richard L. Westenbarger, M.D., UF Department of Emergency Medicine were among 25 medical students, residents and faculty inducted into the Chapman Society, the University of Florida Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS). The society, which is sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, is a public foundation dedicated to fostering humanism in medicine. [more...]
In The News
Florida Times-Union - "Baby Boom at Shands Jacksonville" - 5/16/2008
News4Jax (WJXT) - "Baby Boom at Shands Jacksonville" - 5/15/2008