Stories of Courage and Resilience
11/03/2021A transgender resident and a medical student who chose homelessness to save money for her education shared their stories of courage and challenging societal stigmas...
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News & Information Archive
Collaborative Study Reveals Impact that “Teach-back” Can Have on Patients
11/01/2021Visiting a healthcare professional can be a nerve-wracking experience for patients. It can be more challenging when the patient may not understand what the healthcare...
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“Seeing Her Heart Beating On The Monitor, I Knew We Had Done The Right Thing”
10/27/2021A UCF medical student, who helped lead his college’s first responder unit as an undergraduate, helped perform lifesaving CPR at a Lake Nona restaurant where...
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Dr. Taliaferro Among UCF’s Women of Distinction
10/21/2021 Population health scientist Dr. Lindsay Taliaferro is one of three faculty members who received the 2021-22 UCF Women of Distinction Awards from Faculty Excellence....
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Dr. Parks, Tissue Imaging System Receive UCF Jump Start Award
10/21/2021Dr. Griffith Parks, associate dean for research and director, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, is one of 17 faculty and staff projects that will receive about...
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Dr. Singla Receives Luminary Award
10/19/2021Cardiovascular researcher and Professor Dinender Singla is one of 15 UCF faculty members who were honored for being academic leaders, bettering lives and shining a...
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How Harmless Bacteria Go Rogue, Turn Into Deadly Flesh-Eating Variants
10/13/2021A new UCF-led study reveals how the environment and certain genetic traits play a critical role in the process that trigger bacteria to become human...
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Teresa Rodriguez Receives Hispanic Heritage Month Honors
10/12/2021College of Medicine staff member Teresa Rodriguez has received congressional recognition for her volunteer efforts supporting Central Florida’s Hispanic community. An administrative coordinator for the...
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Genius Foundation Awards $300,000 To UCF Interdisciplinary Health Research
10/07/2021The award, which is the first major gift to UCF’s Academic Health Sciences Center, will support eight interdisciplinary faculty research projects. Eight interdisciplinary faculty research projects...
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Charter Class Alumna Comes Full Circle, Returns to Medical City
09/27/2021When Dr. Elona Rrapo Kaso interviewed for a place at UCF’s brand-new medical school in 2008, classrooms were not yet built, the curriculum was still...
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Free Lab Coat Cleaning Service Available to UCF Researchers
09/25/2021Beginning this Wednesday, Oct. 6, faculty, students, and staff who work in a research lab at UCF can say goodbye to washing their own lab...
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Dr. Deepak Chopra Joins UCF College of Medicine To Teach Integrative Medicine
09/21/2021Integrative medicine advocate Dr. Deepak Chopra has joined the UCF College of Medicine as a volunteer faculty member to provide electives and other programs on...
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