In case you missed them, here are some recent news items about the College of Medicine and its faculty and students.

• FSU PrimaryHealth, the College of Medicine’s new primary-care health center in southwest Tallahassee, welcomed its first patients May 13. Before it opened, the college hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony and community open house.
  
  Tallahassee Democrat: FSU PrimaryHealth center set to open Monday
  
  FSU News: Primary care, FSU-style, arrives in southwest Tallahassee (video)
  
  WTXL: New FSU health center coming to southside neighborhood (video)
  
  WTXL: FSU PrimaryHealth now open (video)
  
  WCTV: FSU opens doors to primary health clinic for southwest Tallahassee
  
  WFSU: FSU opens new primary health center
  
  
   
• Leon County Commissioner Mary Ann Lindley wrote a letter to the editor about FSU PrimaryHealth and the College of Medicine’s mission to meet community health needs.
  
  Tallahassee Democrat: Letter to the editor: Bravo to FSU College of Medicine
  
  
   
• The College of Medicine held its commencement ceremony for the M.D. Class of 2019 on May 18. It was the medical school’s 15th graduating class. Also at the ceremony, 13 Bridge students received their master’s degrees.
  
  FSU News: Class of 2019 students become M.D.s
  
  
   
• A brilliant legal mind and international champion of human rights, Florida State University President Emeritus Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte passed away May 20 at the age of 85. During his time as president, in 2000, the FSU College of Medicine was established as the first new medical school in the nation in more than 20 years.
  
  Tallahassee Democrat: Sandy D’Alemberte, a pillar of FSU with a brilliant legal mind, dies at 85
  
  FSU News: Florida State remembers President Emeritus Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte
  
  
   
• The Leon County School Board approved a Memorandum of Understanding Tuesday making Sabal Palm Elementary a Community Partnership School with the Children’s Home Society of Florida, Florida A&M University and the FSU College of Medicine.
  
  Tallahassee Democrat: LCS approves Sabal Palm Partnership
  
  
   
• A new multi-institution study co-written by Associate Professor Jose Pinto suggests a tiny protein could play a major role in combating heart failure related to Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most common lethal genetic disorder among children.
  
  FSU News: Researchers’ discovery could lead to improved therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  
  
   
• Associate Professor Gregg Stanwood commented on gambling addiction in a News4Jax article about the impact proposed warning labels on lottery tickets could have on Florida lottery sales.
  
  News4Jax: Economists fail to agree on how lottery warnings could impact education funding
  
  
   
• A story from WINK News highlights Immokalee High School senior Jacqueline Perez and her involvement with the College of Medicine’s SSTRIDE program. Perez is striving to be the first in her family to go to college. She wants to become a doctor so she can open her own health clinic in Immokalee.
  
  WINK News: SSTRIDE program helps rural-minority students with mentoring, real-world experience
  
  
   
• Elisa Gomez, a member of the Class of 2020 in the School of Physician Assistant Practice, wrote a student-perspective article for the American Academy of PAs about volunteering in Immokalee and her passion for health care. 
  
  AAPA: Volunteering in Immokalee, Florida: Finding my purpose in medicine
  
  
   
• The African-American Alzheimer’s Caregiver Training and Support Program 2 (ACTS 2) at the College of Medicine is hosting a caregiver training conference on June 29 at the Old West Enrichment Center in Tallahassee. The free Saturday conference will include presentations, breakout groups and caregiver and community resource panel discussions.
  
  Tallahassee Democrat: Alzheimer’s caregivers invited to free training conference
  
  
   
• Data compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the AAMC indicated that Florida is ranked seventh-worst in terms of being “in danger of having a doctor shortage in the years to come.” An editorial in The Ledger notes that the College of Medicine’s new family medicine residency program coming to Winter Haven Hospital will bring 18 new medical school grads to the area with the hopes of keeping them there. 
  
  
  The Ledger: Chipping away at a pending physician deficit
  
  
   
• A recent Bustle article discussed seven ways people can decrease their risk of dementia, one of which is keeping up a healthy social life. The article cites Associate Professor Angelina Sutin’s research on how loneliness is associated with an increased risk for dementia.
  
  Bustle: Experts suggest easy ways to decrease dementia risk