In case you missed them, here are some recent news items about the College of Medicine and its faculty and students.
• FSU researchers brought in more than $226 million in the 2018 fiscal year from federal, state and private sources, a $16 million increase over the prior fiscal year and the second-highest amount FSU researchers have ever received in a single year.
FSU News: FSU faculty awarded $226 million in research dollars
FSU Headlines: FSU researchers bring in more than $226 million (audio)
• Joan Meek, professor and associate dean for graduate medical education, wrote an article for The Conversation about how breastfeeding has been the gold standard for infant nutrition. Meek discusses the history of breastfeeding and breastfeeding policies and its benefits over formula feeding. The piece has since been published in its entirety in multiple publications.
The Conversation: Breastfeeding has been the best public health policy throughout history
Tallahassee Democrat: Benefits of breastfeeding matter
Houston Chronicle: Why is the U.S. backtracking on breastfeeding?
Salon.com: Breastfeeding has been the best public health policy throughout history
Newsweek: Breast is best: Why breastfeeding is the greatest public health policy of all time
- Meek was also quoted in a VOA News story about breastfeeding as well as a SELF Magazine story about what women need to know before pumping breast milk on the go.
VOA News: Doctors say breast milk, not formula, is best
SELF Magazine: What to know if you, like Chrissy Teigen, want to pump on the go
• Joseph Gabriel, associate professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, wrote about the history of opiate addiction, pain and race in the U.S. The article was originally published in The Conversation and ran in the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune.
The Conversation: Opiate addiction and the history of pain and race in the U.S.
Washington Post: The shameful way race affects treatment of pain and drug addiction
Chicago Tribune: Opiate addiction and the history of pain and race in the U.S.
• PA student Holly Daniel wrote an article for the American Academy of Physician Assistants about the College of Medicine’s efforts to prioritize student mental health.
AAPA.org: PA Program Prioritizes Student Mental Health
• FSU Autism Institute Director Amy Wetherby and Emory University researcher Lindee Morgan (formerly with the Autism Institute) were co-principal investigators on a three-year, 60-school study measuring the effectiveness of a curriculum designed for teachers of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). According to the research, the SCERTS curriculum benefited students with ASD.
Tallahassee Democrat: Strategic classroom intervention can make difference for autism students
• College of Medicine graduate Crystal Beal (M.D., ’12) recently launched an entirely online gender and queer-focused medical practice called QueerDoc.
KCTS: Is ‘telemedicine’ the future for rural LGBTQ Patients?
• The College of Medicine’s Rural Learning Experience (RuLE), which took place in early June, received continuing news coverage with an article in FSView discussing student reactions and takeaways.
FSView: FSU med students explore rural health care
- An op-ed piece praising the RuLE trip appeared in the Tallahassee Democrat. The piece, written by a nationally board-certified counselor and licensed mental health counselor, discussed the need for telehealth to treat mental health conditions in rural areas.
Tallahassee Democrat: Opinion: Bring mental health treatment to rural communities with a click
• The university recently announced that its Raise the Torch fundraising campaign surpassed its $1 billion fundraising goal by the June 30 deadline. The top four areas designated for giving were athletics, the College of Business, the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship and the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. The College of Medicine also ranked high in money raised.
Tallahassee Democrat: FSU’s $1 billion campaign exceeds goal
• In other university news, a team of researchers led by Hengli Tang, a professor of biological science, found that the Zika virus is able to spread through the body and bypass the body’s protection system. Researchers from the College of Medicine and FSU’s Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine contributed to the study.
Tallahassee Democrat: Unlike other viruses, Zika can spread through the body
• Three FSU College of Medicine residency programs named new directors.
- Nathan Falk was selected to be the founding director of the FSU College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program at Winter Haven Hospital. The residency program was announced earlier this year.
CNBC: FSU Family Medicine Residency Program names founding director
The Ledger: Residency program director named
- Claudia Kroker-Bode was named the program director for the FSU College of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency Program at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.
Tallahassee Democrat: Internal medicine residency program at TMH welcomes new director
- Alfred Gitu is the next program director of the FSU College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program at Lee Health. Gitu has been a faculty member since the program launched in 2012 and has served as associate program director for the past year.
Business Observer: Family medicine residency program at Lee Health names new director
• The Ocala StarBanner highlighted Emily Kintzele, a senior at Vanguard High School, who was one of 60 students selected to attend the FSU College of Medicine’s Summer Institute.
Ocala StarBanner: Vanguard senior attends mini med school
• The Tallahassee Democrat business briefs mentioned Wendi Cannon, director of information technology at the College of Medicine, and her recent election to the AAMC Group on Information Resources (GIR) steering committee.