College of Medicine – COMmunique, July 7, 2021
 
 

Study Finds Breast Cancer Mortality Rates Still Higher for Black Women

While breast cancer mortality rates have declined over the last few decades, Black women are still twice as likely to die from breast cancer compared...Read More...

HCA Opens New Simulation Center to Train Nurses

HCA 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...Read More...

“You Can’t Give Up: You Were Meant To Be A Doctor”

Mays 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...Read More...

Getting Ahead Of The Next Pandemic: UCF Researchers Named To National Think Tank

College 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...Read More...

College of Medicine Researcher Using Genomic Surveillance to Curb COVID-19

Most are familiar with the field of genomics in relation to ancestry mapping — such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com — uncovering relatives and identifying genetic...Read More...

West Florida Healthcare, UCF Launch New Residency Program

West Florida Healthcare in Pensacola announced Tuesday their first ever Graduate Medical Education Residency Programs in partnership with the UCF College of Medicine. Accredited by...Read More...

College of Medicine Researchers Help UCF Rank in Top 25 for Patents

Two College of Medicine researchers who established patents for their medical inventions helped UCF rank 25th among public universities in the nation for producing patents...Read More...

Medical Student Wins Pulse Legacy Scholarship

Nader Tabsh remembers exactly where he was the night of the Pulse mass shooting in Orlando.  Eight months after moving to America from the United...Read More...

Creating Safer Healing Spaces for LGBTQ Patients

Almost 20 percent of LGBTQ+ adults say they avoid seeking healthcare because they fear discrimination, according to a recent study, leading to poorer health outcomes...Read More...

UCF Lake Nona Medical Center Offers Incisionless Brain Surgery Essential Tremor Treatment

UCF Lake Nona Medical Center announced today it is the first hospital in Central Florida to provide incisionless brain surgery to treat essential tremor and...Read More...

Biomechanics Engineer Wins NSF CAREER Grant

Biomedical and mechanical engineer Robert Steward Jr. is one of five UCF National Science Foundation CAREER grant recipients who are finding innovative and bold new...Read More...

 
 
 
 
 
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