For the first time, the Fort Pierce Regional Campus this year embarked on a campaign to provide scholarships to its students. At the recent Faculty Appreciation Celebration, FSU was able to provide four $5,000 scholarships to very deserving fourth-year students.

For the first time, the Fort Pierce Regional Campus this year embarked on a campaign to provide scholarships to its students. At the recent Faculty Appreciation Celebration, FSU was able to provide four $5,000 scholarships to very deserving fourth-year students.

Dr. Kristin Parsley was interviewed by WCTV (CBS) for a segment on hereditary types of breast cancer.

Dr. Kristin Parsley was interviewed by WCTV (CBS) for a segment on hereditary types of breast cancer.

Suzanne Harrison wrote this op-ed on domestic violence. She is a family physician and director of family medicine education at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Harrison is also the medical director for Refuge House and provides free medical care to survivors of domestic violence. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Suzanne Harrison wrote this op-ed on domestic violence. She is a family physician and director of family medicine education at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Harrison is also the medical director for Refuge House and provides free medical care to survivors of domestic violence. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Two prestigious awards were given out Sept. 20, when the Fort Pierce Regional Campus of the Florida State University College of Medicine gathered its faculty members for a night of appreciation and academic updates.

Two prestigious awards were given out Sept. 20, when the Fort Pierce Regional Campus of the Florida State University College of Medicine gathered its faculty members for a night of appreciation and academic updates.

Dr. Les Beitsch, associate dean for Health Affairs, is quoted in this article about health care. Millions of Americans have struggled to gain access to health care because of pre-existing conditions. Millions more are at risk of having the same problem.

Business owners bracing for more work in response to health care reform have a checklist that will grow in 2014 as more provisions of the Affordable Care Act take effect. Preparing for the changes was the subject of the Tuesday morning meeting of the Health Sciences & Human Performance Enhancement (Health Care) Roundtable of the Economic Development Council of Tallahassee-Leon County. The meeting was hosted by Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. Marshall Kapp, director of FSU’s Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law.

Dr. Les Beitsch, associate dean for Health Affairs, is quoted in this article about health care. Millions of Americans have struggled to gain access to health care because of pre-existing conditions. Millions more are at risk of having the same problem.

The Florida State University College of Medicine (FSU COM) was established in 2000, the first new MD-granting medical school in the United States in over 25 years. In its brief history, the FSU COM has developed rapidly in accordance with its founding mission to meet the need for primary care physicians, especially those caring for the elderly and the underserved. The school recently received a full continuation of accreditation for the maximum period, eight years, from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education

Sixteen extraordinary women from the Florida Panhandle will receive the prestigious Girl Scouts Women of Distinction Award on Nov. 1 during the Awards Gala and 100th Anniversary celebration at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. Dr. Charlotte Maguire, retired pediatrician, is among the honorees.

Kristopher R. “Ryan” Shannon, a second-year student in the Florida State University College of Medicine, has been named one of only 40 students nationwide to receive a 2012 Tylenol Future Care Scholarship. The scholarship will provide him with $10,000 to apply toward his studies.

Head football coach Jimbo Fisher and Candi Fisher, chairwoman of their nonprofit Kidz1stFund, were the special guests at a Nov. 9 seminar on Changing the Practice of Medicine: The FA Story. The FSU College of Medicine hosted the seminar, which was sponsored by Capital Regional Medical Center.

There are as many reactions to a breast cancer diagnosis as there are women who receive one. But the prospect of death almost always looms. Most of the one in eight women in the U.S. who get breast cancer don’t die of the disease. But the instant response of many to the diagnosis mirrors that of long-time state employee Vanda Ragans last summer.

The article quotes both Dr. Nancy Van Vessem and Dr. Lea Kristin Parsley who are faculty members of the College of Medicine.

An interview about flu vaccines with Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi, M.D., chairman of the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Contact him at ric.gonzalez-rothi@med.fsu.edu.  www.youtube.com/watch

Two Tallahassee physicians were honored in August as outstanding faculty members at the Florida State College of Medicine — where one of them graduated just seven years ago. The honorees were Alex Ho, an ER doctor at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, and Eileen Venable, psychiatry clerkship director and practicing psychiatrist.

Though Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente was fit, healthy and happy and had no family history of breast cancer, her routine mammogram revealed she had an early stage of the disease that later would spread, ultimately resulting in two surgeries, a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction, followed by months of chemotherapy. She lost her hair, and one day boldly ditched the wig she hated and took to the bench bald.

Two College of Medicine faculty members, Nancy Van Vessem and Lea Parsley are quoted in the article.

Lisa Johnson, M.D. and Joedrecka Brown, M.D. are both faculty of the FSU College of Medicine and will be caring for patients in the Gadsden practice.

The Autism Institute at Florida State’s College of Medicine is part of a new $8.3 million study to measure risk and resilience factors for autism in infants and toddlers. The goal is to better understand developmental trajectories in children with autism and to improve early detection, intervention and outcomes.

A system where doctors routinely reported drivers who might be impaired by chronic illness
cut the risk of car crashes by 45 percent in a new study from Ontario, Canada.

Some medical schools’ first-year students have been waiting all summer for fall classes to begin. But at the Florida State University College of Medicine, the Class of 2016 already has wrapped up one semester, conquered the anatomy lab and begun wearing the timeless symbol of the profession: the white coat.

Florida State University’s colleges of law and medicine are among the 10 best in the nation for Hispanics, according to Hispanic Business magazine. The College of Law was ranked third among the nation’s law schools, while the College of Medicine was ranked seventh among medical schools. FSU Headlines

The Florida State University College of Medicine Fort Pierce Regional Campus recently honored their fourth graduating class. During the event, awards given by the students were presented to faculty.

Members of Club 25, an organization formed from the “25 Women You Need to Know” program created by the Tallahas­see Democrat , partnered with Capital Area Healthy Start Coalition to provide summer learning opportunities for Healthy Start's STRONGER Girls Pro­gram.

Florida State University’s College of Medicine is ranked No. 7 in the nation for Hispanics, according to Hispanic Business magazine. The magazine based its rankings on percentage of Hispanic student enrollment; percentage of Hispanic faculty members; percentage of degrees conferred upon Hispanics; and progressive programs aimed at increasing enrollment of Hispanic students.

Hispanic Business Magazine recently released a list of top ranked Hispanic-American graduate programs—and Florida State University’s Colleges of Law and Medicine made the cut.

Florida State University’s College of Medicine welcomes 120 first year medical students with its annual White Coat Ceremony. The white coat celebrates two big milestones: the students are joining the medical profession and they have passed their first semester of summer classes.

Julie DeCesare, professor and program director of the OB-GYN residency program at Florida State University was a guest on the show and discusses the comments on women, rape and pregnancy by Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Missouri, Todd Akin.

The Florida Medical Association would like to recognize Christie Sain, M.D., a family medicine physician practicing at Patients first.

A Florida State University professor, Jacob VanLandingham, is developing a new drug that could help prevent concussions before they occur, or reduce the chance of long-term damage.

As our national population grows and grays, the need for doctors and nurses will only increase. 
And perhaps no more than in Florida, known for having a large retirement population. About 13.3 percent of the U.S. population is 65 years old or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In Florida, that age segment is 17.6 percent. 
That's one reason why the success of the Daytona Beach Regional Campus of the Florida State University College of Medicine is a major plus for the area.

Elena Reyes is the College of Medicine’s new regional director for Southwest Florida.

Pediatrician Fawn Harrison, who was a member of the FSU College of Medicine’s first graduating class, has practiced primary care since 2008 in rural Arcadia.

Sanjay Kumar, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, discovered a new type of NMDA receptor whose physiological properties had been overlooked.

Suzanne Bennett Johnson, Distinguished Research Professor at the FSU College of Medicine, has received a 2012 Distinguished Alumni award at her alma mater – Stony Brook University.

eather Flynn, associate professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to research depression.

Twice in a seven-month span medical students from FSU made the cover of Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Kimberly Driscoll, assistant professor of medical humanities and social sciences at the FSU College of Medicine, was awarded a four-year, $655,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to pursue a study designed to improve insulin pump adherence in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes.

Zarko Manojlovic has had a long journey from Bosnia’s civil war to a College of Medicine lab, where he now researches liver fibrosis with the aid of an NI H grant.

The painstaking work of setting up the Clinical Research Network (CRN) and the Translational Science Laboratory is about to pay off for the College of Medicine.

FSU College of Medicine student Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews has received a Minority Scholars Award from the American Medical Association Foundation.

Dennis Tsilimingras, M.D., director of the FSU College of Medicine’s Center on Patient Safety, is studying rural patients and their transition from hospital care to home life.

Martin Wood, assistant director of the Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library, is the new president of the Florida Health
Sciences Library Association (FHSLA).

Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D., chair of the Department of Geriatrics at the FSU College of Medicine, has been selected as a 2012-13 Health and Aging Policy Fellow.

The Megraw lab at the FSU College of Medicine discovered cilia where others said they wouldn’t. 

FSU College of Medicine Dean John Fogarty is now the chair-elect for the Section on Medical Schools with the American Medical Association.

The American Geriatrics Society chose Dr. Niharika Suchak, associate professor in the FSU College of Medicine Department of Geriatrics, as its latest Clinician of the Year.

The medical school, working with local physicians, trains future doctors in area hospitals and doctor offices in hopes of them returning to the area or state to practice. About 60 percent of FSU College of Medicine graduates from all its campuses are practicing in Florida.