Faculty Honored at UCF’s Authors Celebration
03/03/2022College of Medicine faculty members Drs. Karl Chai and Marcy Verduin were among 47 honorees at UCF’s third Authors Celebration March 1. The event, held...
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FIRE Research Conference Returns In-Person, Highlights Population Health
03/02/2022As a Division I water polo athlete, Yasmine Ghattas spent much of her time coaching basketball and softball to children with intellectual disabilities. Now a...
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UCF Medical Student Says Doctors Must Be Healers and Community Leaders
02/22/2022Lake Lindo grew up minutes from the UCF College of Medicine campus where he now studies, inspired by his physician mother who provides psychiatric care...
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UCF/HCA Begin First Tallahassee-Based Residencies In Dermatology, Psychiatry
02/17/2022UCF’s College of Medicine and HCA Healthcare are starting their first residencies at Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee — in dermatology and psychiatry, two...
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Faculty Partner with Engineers to Solve Heart Problems
02/16/2022UCF’s engineers do more than develop innovative space technology or reimagine the next generation of wind turbines — they also solve matters of the heart....
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Interprofessional Faculty Earn $1.5 Million Grant To Build Healthcare Provider Resiliency
02/15/2022As COVID-19 challenges the resilience of healthcare providers worldwide, an interprofessional team of UCF health faculty recently received a $1.5 million federal grant to help...
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UCF Researchers Share Their Insights into Innovation and Inspiration
02/11/2022Innovation at UCF is not an exception; It is the expectation. In 2021, U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Central Florida as...
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UCF-HCA Announce New EMS Fellowship – Only 1 Of 4 In Florida
02/03/2022UCF and HCA Healthcare are starting their first Emergency Medical Services fellowship program and are seeking applicants to begin training in July 2022. The fellowship,...
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Augmented Reality Technology to Help Curb Opioid Risk
01/31/2022The opioid crisis has been significantly exacerbated during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has a reported a 35% increase...
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Global Health Conference Highlights Need For Healthcare Advocacy
01/24/2022As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to highlight racial disparities in healthcare, physicians and other providers play a key role in helping patients overcome barriers to...
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Psychiatry Residents Match Into Top Fellowships
01/24/2022Three UCF-HCA Healthcare psychiatry residents recently matched into some of the nation’s top sub-specialty programs. The three physicians care for patients at the Orlando VA...
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Six Seniors Match Into Competitive Military Residencies
01/14/2022Before enrolling in medical school, Brendan Sweeney was a biomedical engineer who worked alongside clinicians to create better patient therapies — including better bandage adhesives...
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