Dr. Diebel Honored with John C. and Martha Hitt Honorary Alumni Award
The College of Medicine congratulates and thanks Dr. Donald Diebel Sr., who was recently honored with UCF’s John C. and Martha Hitt Honorary Alumni Award…
UCF Space Medicine Initiatives Are Taking Off
The University of Central Florida College of Medicine is charting a new frontier in healthcare as humans prepare for longer missions to moon, Mars and…
UCF Researchers Developing Easy-to-Use Viral Biosensor Test, Giving Patients More Accurate and Immediate Results
For most diseases, early detection leads to better patient outcomes. That’s why infectious disease experts and chemists at UCF’s College of Medicine and College of…
UCF Leads Inaugural Global Health Summit in Malta, Expands Collaborative Research and Student Exchange Opportunities
Public health experts from the Americas, Europe and Africa gathered in Malta this summer at a UCF-led Global Health Summit to strategize how to make…
UCF Creates Free Resiliency Resources for Healthcare Workers, Students Worldwide
Burnout among healthcare providers is at an all-time high. In 2022, 46% of health workers reported feeling burned out often or very often, up from…
UCF Med Student Earns Prestigious International NIH Fellowship to Address Antibiotic Resistance
Third-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…
Burnett School Undergrads are Astronaut Scholars
Two College of Medicine undergraduates have been named to the 2025 Astronaut Scholar Class, a national honor recognizing the best and brightest college students in…
UCF ‘Double Knight’ Harnesses Unique Interdisciplinary Research Path in Quest for M.D.
As a graduate researcher at UCF, Viviana Rivera helped create bionic arms for children needing prostheses, and she still remembers how patients lit up when…
UCF Medicine-Engineering Program Trains Students for Future of Healthcare
Pavan Senthil was inspired walking through a convention hall and seeing the technology that doctors and engineers had created for people with disabilities. Wheelchairs that…
Burnett Student Explores Bridges Between Health in Space and on Earth
Luis Jimenez-Chavez, a master’s student in biomedical sciences at the UCF College of Medicine, is focused on exploring everything he’s heard about since childhood –…
Goldwater Scholar Making Research Impact in Healthcare
Biomedical Sciences undergraduate Sun Latt is one of two UCF students selected for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, which honors select candidates nationwide pursuing careers in…
UCF Students’ AI System Assists Orlando Health Robotic Surgeries
A student engineering project that began with using artificial intelligence (AI) to track cafeteria forks transformed into a system that will help Orlando Health surgeons…