PRESS RELEASES Florida State University Provost and Executive Vice President Lawrence G. Abele has announced the appointment of Dr. John P. Fogarty as the next dean of the College of Medicine, effective Aug. 8. Senior associate dean for operations and associate dean for primary care at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Fogarty will succeed Dr. J. Ocie Harris, who is retiring after more than five years as dean.

PRESS RELEASE Heart damage due to blocked arteries remains the leading cause of disease and death in the Western world, but a Florida State University College of Medicine researcher is helping to open new pathways toward treating the problem.

PRESS RELEASE All 57 students in the FSU College of Medicine Class of 2008 received notification today of where they will enter residency training this summer after graduation. Thirty-eight of the 57 graduating students, or 67 percent, are entering residency in primary care specialties, including family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine and obstetrics/gynecology.

PRESS RELEASE The newest campus of the Florida State University College of Medicine got its start through the generosity of the late Isabel Collier Read, who was memorialized recently at the grand opening ceremony at the Immokalee, Fla., campus named for her.

PRESS RELEASE With a four-year, $707,000 grant from the American Cancer Society, Yanchang Wang, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the Florida State University College of Medicine, hopes to learn how a particular enzyme could possibly help put the brakes on the runaway cell division process that occurs in many forms of cancer.

PRESS RELEASE Two local retired physicians have joined forces with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare to provide $2.5 million worth of enhancements to the Florida State University College of Medicine, including a new center where medical students will learn using high-tech patient simulators.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is working to help reduce health disparities among Gadsden County children through a project funded by FSU Dance Marathon, which is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center.

PRESS RELEASE Patients are more likely to have better health outcomes if they are treated at hospitals using information technology (IT) systems, according to a comprehensive new Florida State University study.

PRESS RELEASE Health care for the elderly in northern Florida, southern Alabama and southern Georgia is about to get better with a $1.2 million Geriatric Education Center grant involving departments at Florida State University, Florida A&M University and the University of South Alabama.

PRESS RELEASE The largest set of information ever collected about Florida's physician workforce suggests there are far fewer doctors practicing in the state than previously believed, according to Florida State University College of Medicine researchers.

A cooperative program between Florida State and IRCC has brought medical students to the Treasure Coast with the hope that they will stay and practice here.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is ranked second in the nation for the percentage of its graduating doctors who choose to specialize in family medicine, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University’s colleges of law and medicine are among the best in the nation for Hispanics, according to Hispanic Business magazine.

PRESS RELEASE Starting July 2, Volusia County residents visiting the same physicians they’ve gone to for years might be greeted in the waiting room for the first time by a sign indicating that their doctor is now a teacher.

PRESS RELEASE Starting July 2, Fort Pierce residents visiting the same physicians they’ve gone to for years might be greeted in the waiting room for the first time by a sign indicating that their doctor is now a teacher.

PRESS RELEASE Elderly people consume almost 40 percent of all health care services in this country, but in most cases, the elderly do not see a geriatrician when they visit the doctor. That’s one reason the Florida State University College of Medicine strives to instill the principles of geriatric medicine in all of its students, regardless of their likelihood of specializing in geriatric health care.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is ready to expand its rural medical education program to Immokalee, Fla., now that a transfer of property for a new training center has been completed. NCH Healthcare System recently transferred the deed on the Isabel Collier Read Building and accompanying 9.4 acres of land to FSU.

PRESS RELEASE Forty-nine students in the graduating Class of 2007 at the FSU College of Medicine received notification today of where they will enter residency training this summer after graduation.

PRESS RELEASE Thirty-five of the 36 students in the graduating Class of 2006 of the Florida State University College of Medicine received notification today of where they will enter residency training this summer after graduation.

PRESS RELEASE A comprehensive Florida State University study of information technology use in acute care hospitals is the first to reveal an overall financial benefit associated with hospital investments in IT. The study appears in the January-February issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management.

PRESS RELEASE NCH Healthcare System will help Florida State University's College of Medicine establish a training program focusing on rural health in Immokalee, Fla., an area that is home to many poor farm and migrant workers.

In 2000, the Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine was founded, becoming the first new allopathic medical school in the United States in over 20 years. The new medical school was to use community-based clinical training for the education of its students,create a technology-rich environment, and address primary care health needs of Florida’s citizens, especially the elderly, rural, minorities, and underserved. The challenges faced during the creation of the new school, including accreditation and a leadership change, as well as accomplishments are described here.

PRESS RELEASE The FSU College of Medicine has joined forces with the university’s Honors Program to establish a B.S./M.D. program that will be open to five students annually beginning in fall 2006.
Applications and program details will be available Nov. 1 from the FSU Honors Office, (850)644-1841, honors@fsu.edu, or on the Web at http://honors.fsu.edu.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is joining forces with Archbold Medical Center in an agreement through which a number of medical students will receive their clinical training in Thomasville, Ga.

PRESS RELEASE Health care for the elderly in northern Florida, southern Alabama and southern Georgia is about to get better through a new $2 million Geriatric Education Center involving departments at Florida State University, Florida A&M University and the University of South Alabama.

PRESS RELEASE The first group of Florida State University medical students to be assigned to the school’s new Sarasota campus arrive this week for their orientation.

PRESS RELEASE Outreach programs at the Florida State University College of Medicine have played a key role in the admission of a remarkably diverse first-year medical school class – one in which minorities and women are both in the majority.

The FSU Medical School held its first commencement ceremony Saturday May 21, 2005 in the College of Medicine Courtyard.

Avoid getting poisoned by perfectly good-looking food. Dr. Bob Brooks, associate director of heath affairs at FSU College of Medicine, talks about preventing food borne outbreaks.

Ajay Mhatre plans to return to Lake City and practice medicine.

Natosha Canty of Havana and Neil Rodgers of Quincy are among the 27 students in the inaugural class of the Florida State University College of Medicine who will graduate this Saturday.

Pensacola served as regional campus. Area hospitals provided on the job training

PRESS RELEASE Just under five years after the legislation creating the Florida State University College of Medicine was signed into law, the medical school will hold a commencement ceremony for its first class.

PRESS RELEASE Research shows that the rate of clinical depression among dementia caregivers ranges from 27 to 50 percent, making them the most distressed among the caregiver population. That’s why Robert Glueckauf, professor of medical humanities and social sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine, has created the Alzheimer’s Rural Care Healthline

PRESS RELEASE National Public Radio's popular weekly science program, Talk of the Nation - Science Friday, will be broadcast live from the Florida State University campus on April 8. Flatow's guests for the show will include Jeffrey Spike, an associate professor of clinical ethics at the FSU College of Medicine; Dr. Charles G. Maitland, a neurologist and clinical professor at the College of Medicine; and Dr. Ken Brummel-Smith, chair of the geriatrics department, College of Medicine.

Inaugural class of College of Medicine seniors gets assigned

PRESS RELEASE All 29 senior students in the inaugural class of the FSU College of Medicine received notification today of where they will enter residency training this summer after graduation.

J. Ocie Andrews, dean of the FSU College of Medicine observes medical students by way of video cameras in the Clinical Learning Center control room. Florida State's medical college is the country's first new medical school since 1982. Readers weigh in on a pending shortage of doctors in the USA.

Medical students enrolled in FSU College of Medicine arrive in July for a two year program at the Sarasota regional campus.

Medical Students to train in Sarasota. Students will get hands on training in local doctors’ offices and community hospitals under the FSU program

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University medical students and faculty have expanded their annual FSUCares spring break medical outreach program to include Immokalee, Fla., where they will work with medically underserved populations March 5-12. They also will revisit sites in Panama and along the U.S.-Mexico border during the organization’s fourth annual spring break mission.

Regional campus for third and fourth year students opens in Sarasota.

Without more training, number of doctors will start to drop in 10 years. Shannon Proce, a student at FSU's College of Medicine, examines a patient.

The United States stopped opening medical schools in the 1980s because of the predicted surplus of doctors. The Association of American Medical Colleges dropped this long-standing view in 2002 with the statement: "It now appears that those predictions may be in error." Last month, it recommended increasing the number of U.S. medical students by 15%. Florida State University's College of Medicine, the first new medical school since 1982, will graduate its first class this year. Florida State won approval from the state Legislature to become the nation's 126th medical school by emphasizing family practice and other specialties needed in rural areas and inner cities, where the doctor shortage is already acute. Florida State medical student Shannon Price, 34, plans to return to her hometown of Perry, when she becomes an obstetrician in 2010. She knows first-hand how having too few doctors hurts Perry.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is opening a regional campus in Sarasota that will be the school's fourth site for third- and fourth-year clinical training.

Library named for FSU benefactor Charlotte Edwards Maguire

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine today dedicated the Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library during the luncheon of the FSU Foundation winter board of trustees meeting. The dedication took place at the newly completed John Thrasher Building. Dr. Charlotte Maguire is a long-time supporter of FSU and a trustee of the FSU Foundation.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine was notified today that it has been granted full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the nationally recognized accrediting authority for medical education programs leading to the M.D. degree.

PRESS RELEASE Students, faculty and staff of the Florida State University College of Medicine are moving this week into the medical school's new $60 million building complex on the northwest corner of the FSU campus.

PRESS RELEASE Access to health care in Gadsden County has taken a great leap forward this fall, thanks to a unique partnership involving two universities, city and county officials, the county health department, a student group and a local nonprofit organization.