Knightro Has a Head Coach and he’s a Med School Colleague
08/27/2025As Knightro struts his stuff on the field Thursday night to kick off football season, you likely had no idea that the beloved mascot has...
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News & Information Archive
UCF Med Student Earns Prestigious International NIH Fellowship to Address Antibiotic Resistance
08/20/2025Third-year College of Medicine student Larissa Dixon is the first UCF student to earn a Fogarty International Center Fellowship. Her research will better inform the...
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10 UCF Health Faculty Physicians are Top Docs
08/18/2025Orlando Family Magazine has recognized 10 UCF Health Faculty Physician Practice doctors as among the community’s finest. The honorees include physicians in multiple specialties and...
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Burnett School Undergrads are Astronaut Scholars
08/15/2025Two College of Medicine undergraduates have been named to the 2025 Astronaut Scholar Class, a national honor recognizing the best and brightest college students in...
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UCF ‘Double Knight’ Harnesses Unique Interdisciplinary Research Path in Quest for M.D.
08/05/2025As a graduate researcher at UCF, Viviana Rivera helped create bionic arms for children needing prostheses, and she still remembers how patients lit up when...
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Welcome M.D. Class of 2029
08/04/2025Jack Koczara was inspired by the orthopedic surgeon who healed his sports-torn knees and shoulder. Sierra Simon always loved science but became a lifeguard and...
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Meet our Preceptors: Dr. John Clore, Nemours Children’s Health
07/31/2025Dr. John Clore is a Double Knight – he received his undergraduate and M.D. degrees at UCF and now has returned to Orlando to become...
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Central Florida Students Train to Become Community Lifesavers
07/22/2025Eighty-five local high school students became CPR certified at the UCF College of Medicine Wednesday and became lifesavers for the community. The training was part...
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UCF Medicine-Engineering Program Trains Students for Future of Healthcare
07/21/2025Pavan Senthil was inspired walking through a convention hall and seeing the technology that doctors and engineers had created for people with disabilities. Wheelchairs that...
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UCF-HCA Healthcare Programs Training Needed Physicians for Florida
07/08/2025The arrival of summer marks a new year of residency and fellowship training for young doctors around the nation and here in Florida. Beginning July...
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UCF Epidemiologist Receives Field’s Highest Honor
07/03/2025UCF infection preventionist Dr. Cindy Prins has been named a fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) – the highest...
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Dr. Heather Fagan Named Chair, Department of Pediatrics
06/27/2025Dr. Heather Fagan, a distinguished pediatric critical care physician and award-winning medical educator, has been named chair of the UCF College of Medicine Nemours Children’s...
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