PRESS RELEASE Florida State University is exploring the intersection of arts and medicine in a research symposium titled “Music, Medicine, & Culture: Medical Ethnomusicology and Global Perspectives on Health and Healing.”  

PRESS RELEASE The Pensacola campus of the Florida State University College of Medicine reopened this morning after power was restored to the campus building at 8880 University Parkway. The campus had been closed due to Hurricane Ivan since Tuesday.

PRESS RELEASE Two Florida State University researchers are among the recipients of 19 biomedical research grants announced recently by Gov. Jeb Bush. Of the $9.2 million granted to biomedical research in Florida, a combined $881,000 was given to FSU's two recipients: Teng Ma of the Florida A&M/FSU chemical engineering department and Yanchang Wang of the FSU College of Medicine.

PRESS RELEASE Dr. Bruce Berg has been selected to head the Florida State University Regional Medical School Campus – Sarasota, which will begin accepting medical students next year.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is drawing together more than 75 CEOs and senior executives of Florida’s hospitals to brief industry executives on the latest and most effective medical error prevention strategies.

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University's first-year medical students will be finishing out the academic year by training alongside primary care doctors around the state for three weeks in May. The students have been assigned to work one-on-one with community physicians throughout Florida in a summer clinical practicum focusing on clinical and patient communication skills.
 

PRESS RELEASE Alma Littles, M.D., associate dean for Academic Affairs for the FSU College of Medicine, joined local and statewide health officials on May 10 in a town hall meeting that kicked off events in Tallahassee for Cover the Uninsured Week. Cover the Uninsured Week is a national campaign to annually promote the goal of affordable health coverage for all Americans.

The American Medical Women’s Association has recognized an FSU alumna and an associate dean as local legends from Florida. Alma Littles, M.D., an associate dean for academic affairs in the college, and Charlotte Maguire, M.D., a pioneering woman physician and benefactor of the FSU College of Medicine, were nominated for the distinction by Congressman Allen Boyd Jr.

Two programs take to farming out physicians in the country side. A void exists in rural areas when it comes to medical care, but some programs are trying to address it.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida Academy of Family Physicians has selected Florida State University College of Medicine faculty member Dr. C. David Smith as Florida’s 2004 Family Physician of the Year. Although he practices in a Panhandle town of fewer than 600 residents, Smith’s impact is immeasurable to the people of Jay, Fla., and the surrounding area, where he has been the backbone of the health care system for 23 years.

PRESS RELEASE Impending changes in the nature and financing of state and federal rural health initiatives were the focus of a day-long summit sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Center for Rural Health Research and Policy at the Florida State University College of Medicine. National and statewide rural health leaders came together in Tallahassee for the Feb. 27 Rural Health Summit, which drew about 70 rural providers, hospital administrators, rural health network representatives and FSU medical students.

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University's third-year medical students will be spending the next three weeks working with local community service agencies in Orlando, Pensacola and Tallahassee as part of a community medicine rotation designed to broaden their understanding of the role the agencies play in health promotion and disease prevention.

Dr. Joseph Scherger has been chosen as the Dean of the Florida State University College of Medicine. Scherger's appointment by Provost Larry Abele is the result of a national search that took several months. He begins work July 1.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine has taken yet another major step forward with the addition of a doctoral program in biomedical sciences. Associate Dean Myra Hurt, who led the development of the new doctoral program, said the medical school as a whole will benefit from the expansion of the research program to include doctoral students.

PRESS RELEASE From rural high school students throughout Florida to families living in poverty in outlying areas of Haiti and Panama, many people will benefit from a $223,000 gift from the Pfizer Foundation to the Florida State University College of Medicine.

PRESS RELEASE FSUCares, a medical student organization devoted to local and international medical outreach, issues a challenge to all area runners and walkers to participate in the 2nd Annual FSUCares 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Fun Run on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003.

PRESS RELEASE Florida ranks near the bottom when it comes to having enough doctors certified as specialists in caring for the elderly, a recent study shows, but the Florida State University College of Medicine is out to change that. 
The FSU College of Medicine was founded in 2000 with a mission of addressing the state's most pressing physician shortages. The medical school recently became the first in the state - and one of only four in the country - to devote an entire department to geriatric medicine.  

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is launching its first three regional medical school campuses this week in Tallahassee, Pensacola and Orlando. The first new medical school to be established in the United States in 20 years, the FSU College of Medicine also is one of only a few medical schools in the country to operate multiple community-based campuses

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is launching its first three regional medical school campuses this week in Tallahassee, Pensacola and Orlando.  

Bequest means many mid-career professionals will now be able to jump tracks and attend medical school.

PRESS RELEASE The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) notified the Florida State University College of Medicine today that it has voted to continue the medical school's provisional accreditation after reviewing the school's third- and fourth-year education program.

PRESS RELEASE Known mostly for raising timber, the town of Perry, Fla., population 7,000, is proving that with the right approach, rural communities can also grow their own doctors. With full scholarships from Doctors’ Memorial Hospital in Perry, three Florida State University medical students are setting out to do something no one else from their hometown has done in 50 years – earn a medical degree and return to Perry to practice.
 

Training Florida's next generation of country doctors

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University, its College of Medicine, and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare will announce the signing of an affiliation agreement through which TMH would work closely with the College of Medicine in the education of medical students.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine announced today the establishment of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Center for Rural Health with a $750,000 gift from the Jacksonville-based health plan. The gift, which is eligible for a $490,000 match from the State of Florida, will fund research projects designed to assess and improve health services for Floridians living in rural areas.

PRESS RELEASE The desire to provide medical relief to communities in need is proving contagious at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Sixteen students and four faculty members, including one from the medical school's Pensacola campus, will dedicate their spring break to serving Panamanian communities with little access to health care. Last year, 10 students, two faculty members and two community physicians went on the trip to Panama. The project is part of FSUCares.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine broke ground today on a 270,000-square-foot complex of buildings that will be the school's new home starting next year.

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University announced today that Dr. J. Ocie Harris, the current associate dean for Clinical Affairs at the College of Medicine, has been named dean.

PRESS RELEASE The first group of medical students assigned to Florida State University's newly established Regional Medical School Campus - Orlando will be in Orlando Dec. 17 to meet some of the local physicians who will be their teachers.

PRESS RELEASE Yoga may be one of the hottest fitness trends sweeping the country, but a Florida State University medical educator thinks it also may be the prescription for ailments ranging from headaches to heart disease. Dr. Richard Usatine, associate dean of medical education at the FSU College of Medicine, is the co-author, along with yoga therapist Larry Payne, of "Yoga Rx," (2002, Broadway Press), a new book that offers step-by-step programs to promote health, wellness and healing for common ailments.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine today became the first new medical school in the country to receive the approval of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education since 1982.

PRESS RELEASE The Clinical Learning Center at the Florida State University College of Medicine is pioneering the use of electronic medical records in the training of medical students in a simulated clinical setting. College of Medicine Dean Joseph Scherger said that the electronic medical record system is a key part of a much larger commitment the college has made to integrating medical information technology into the curriculum at FSU.

PRESS RELEASE A leading medical software maker has established a partnership with the Florida State University College of Medicine to advance the use of medical information technology among students and physicians. As part of the partnership, Seattle-based Physician Micro Systems Inc. (PMSI) is providing Practice Partner®, the company’s popular electronic medical record and patient appointment scheduling software, to FSU’s Clinical Learning Center.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine has established its Regional Medical School Campus – Tallahassee, which includes multiple clinical training sites in Tallahassee, as well as sites in Perry and Marianna.

PRESS RELEASE Dr. Eugene Trowers has been named assistant dean of the Florida State University Regional Medical School Campus -- Tallahassee. Trowers will be responsible for directing the clinical education program for those FSU medical students assigned to Tallahassee for the third and fourth years of medical school. He comes to FSU from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, where he served as the assistant program director for the gastroenterology fellowship program. 
 

PRESS RELEASE MED3OOO Group Inc., a privately-held national health care management and technology company with a regional operation center in Pensacola, has established the MED3OOO Fund for Excellence in Medical Education with a $50,000 gift to the Florida State University College of Medicine.

PRESS RELEASE An award-winning family physician with roots in rural Gadsden County has been appointed chair of the department of family medicine and rural health at the Florida State University College of Medicine.
  Dr. Alma Littles will be responsible for directing the development and implementation of the college's family medicine education program.

Since the first stirrings of interest in adding a College of Medicine to FSU, the focus has revolved around the politics of developing the first new medical school in the US in 20 years. Nearing the end of their first year, those students are now a visible force when the critics set to work.

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University is putting out an unusual casting call, and it’s not coming from the schools of film or theater. The FSU College of Medicine is looking for people of all ages who can be trained to feign a variety of medical conditions – from Alzheimer’s disease to tennis elbow to a stroke -- for the sake of education.

PRESS RELEASE Leaders in the development and use of virtual reality technology, the Internet and other multimedia resources for medical education are among the recently hired faculty at Florida State University’s new College of Medicine.
  The college’s most recent hires include:
Dennis Baker, Ph.D., Dr. Anthony Costa, Graham Patrick, Ph.D., Philip Posner, Ph.D

PRESS RELEASE Dr. Anthony Costa, the newly appointed assistant dean for the FSU College of Medicine’s Regional Medical School Campus – Orlando, joined the college’s 30 first-year students for a tour of Florida Hospital and Orlando Regional Medical Center March 2. Costa will lead the development of the third- and fourth-year clinical training program for those FSU medical students who are assigned to Orlando beginning in July 2003. Costa, who currently serves as associate dean for clinical education at the Barberton campus of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, will officially begin his new duties July 1.
 

PRESS RELEASE Dr. Charlotte Edwards Maguire, a distinguished pediatrician and supporter of the Florida State University College of Medicine, will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in a ceremony at 5 p.m. Feb. 14 in the College of Medicine Administration Building.

PRESS RELEASE A family physician from rural Milton, Fla., will serve as the assistant dean for the FSU College of Medicine’s regional campus in Pensacola. 
The college announced Monday that it has appointed Dr. Paul McLeod to lead the development of the first of several regional medical campuses it will establish throughout the state.

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University's new medical school dean envisions a future where patients correspond with their doctors by e-mail - even in rural Florida. And those same doctors, says Dr. Joseph Scherger, will be able to tap into the most up-to-date research to treat their patients, thanks to information provided by FSU's medical school via video feed or the Internet. "Patients deserve the best care no matter who they go to, even in the small towns in the Panhandle," said Scherger, who was chosen to lead the school Tuesday. Scherger's appointment by Provost Larry Abele is the result of a national search that took several months. He begins work July 1.
 

Students from Florida State University and Florida A&M University represent the first results of a new inter-institutional program linking them with University of Florida in a new pathway for medical education.

Gender-affirming care is life-saving, research shows. Why is it so controversial for trans kids? Ramiz Kseri, M.D., an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at Florida State University's College of Medicine, and Jonathan Appelbaum, M.D., chair of the college's Department of Clinical Sciences as well as its education director and a professor of internal medicine, are two of the many experts consulted for this USA Today article.

There is a contract dispute between BayCare Health System and UnitedHealthcare. The fight between the two affects 400,000 patients and thousands of physicians, which makes it a matter of public concern. It all started when BayCare Health System, a network of 10 major non-profit hospitals, notified United that it was ending their contract early because, according to the hospital system, United had failed to pay bills totaling $11 million. Marshall Kapp, director of FSU’s Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law, is quoted in the story. Bay United Depth

First-year medical students Gabe Lowenhaar and Harielle Deshommes traveled to Immokalee during spring break for FSUCares' annual medical outreach and served as interpreters.

Loneliness raises a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease within 15 years, a long-term study of nearly half a million U.K. residents found, supporting calls into the therapeutic benefits of personally significant social bonds.

This work adds to evidence “that loneliness is a substantial psychosocial determinant of health,” the researchers wrote in the study “Loneliness and Risk of Parkinson Disease,” published in JAMA Neurology
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