Dr. LaRochelle New Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
07/12/2021Dr. Jeff LaRochelle is the UCF College of Medicine’s new associate dean of academic affairs, selected after a nationwide search. Before being named as only...
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Med Student Receives National Award For Pandemic Efforts
07/09/2021A UCF medical student who used her bioengineering training to create makeshift ventilators for COVID-19 patients and help a free clinic transition to telehealth services...
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Dr. Coathup Awarded SEED Funding To Begin Space Travel Research
07/09/2021College of Medicine biomedical engineer Dr. Melanie Coathup is one of five UCF researchers to receive more than $450,000 in SEED funding thanks to a...
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Study Finds Breast Cancer Mortality Rates Still Higher for Black Women
07/02/2021While breast cancer mortality rates have declined over the last few decades, Black women are still twice as likely to die from breast cancer compared...
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HCA Opens New Simulation Center to Train Nurses
07/01/2021HCA Healthcare North Florida Division announced the opening of a $5.5 million state-of-the-art simulation training center in Central Florida designed to empower and support nurses...
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“You Can’t Give Up: You Were Meant To Be A Doctor”
06/24/2021Mays Alani was losing hope of ever becoming a practicing physician. She’d graduated from the Medical University of Bahrain, but as a foreign-trained M.D. had...
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Getting Ahead Of The Next Pandemic: UCF Researchers Named To National Think Tank
06/24/2021College of Medicine microbiologist Dr. Salvador Almagro-Moreno, along with Laurene Tetard from the Department of Physics/Nanoscience Technology Center and Xiaohu Xia from the Department of Chemistry...
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College of Medicine Researcher Using Genomic Surveillance to Curb COVID-19
06/23/2021Most are familiar with the field of genomics in relation to ancestry mapping — such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com — uncovering relatives and identifying genetic...
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West Florida Healthcare, UCF Launch New Residency Program
06/22/2021West Florida Healthcare in Pensacola announced Tuesday their first ever Graduate Medical Education Residency Programs in partnership with the UCF College of Medicine. Accredited by...
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College of Medicine Researchers Help UCF Rank in Top 25 for Patents
06/16/2021Two College of Medicine researchers who established patents for their medical inventions helped UCF rank 25th among public universities in the nation for producing patents...
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Medical Student Wins Pulse Legacy Scholarship
06/15/2021Nader Tabsh remembers exactly where he was the night of the Pulse mass shooting in Orlando. Eight months after moving to America from the United...
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Creating Safer Healing Spaces for LGBTQ Patients
06/10/2021Almost 20 percent of LGBTQ+ adults say they avoid seeking healthcare because they fear discrimination, according to a recent study, leading to poorer health outcomes...
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