In case you missed them, here are some recent news items about the College of Medicine and its faculty and students.
- With a $3.75 million grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, the Department of Geriatrics at the College of Medicine will develop training and resources for a wide range of health-care professionals to meet the needs of Florida’s aging population.
FSU News: College of Medicine receives $3.75 million grant to continue improving care for older adults in Florida
Florida Trend: Improving care for older adults in Florida
- A recent Winter Haven News Chief article discussed the difficulty elderly patients face when trying to find a doctor in Polk County. At Polk’s largest hospital, Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, only four doctors were listed under geriatrics. Lisa Granville, professor and associate chair of the Department of Geriatrics, commented on the nation’s demand for geriatricians.
Winter Haven News Chief: Patients in need
- Backed by a three-year Bankhead-Coley research grant from the Florida Department of Health totaling more than $800,000, College of Medicine Professor George Rust and his team are working to tackle cancer disparities in Florida.
FSU News: College of Medicine’s ‘What if?’ questions could help Florida communities tackle cancer disparities
- Two FSU professors – including the College of Medicine’s Les Beitsch – are members of an NIH-funded research team examining how Hurricane Michael impacted birth outcomes in the Florida Panhandle.
News4Jax: Researchers explore impacts of Hurricane Michael on births
FSU News: FSU researchers receive NIH grant to examine Hurricane Michael impact on birth outcomes
Orlando Weekly: Florida researchers look into effects of Hurricane Michael on childbirths
Tallahassee Democrat: FSU profs partner in post-Michael childbirth study
- A July editorial in the Tallahassee Democrat listed FSU PrimaryHealth as one of three “upbeat, encouraging developments in our city.”
Tallahassee Democrat: Three encouraging developments in Tallahassee
- Florida State University researchers received a record level of funding from federal, state and private sources in the 2019 fiscal year, bringing in $233.6 million to support investigations into areas such as health sciences, high-energy physics and marine biology.
FSU News: Researchers awarded $233.6 million, breaking FSU’s single-year funding record
Tallahassee Democrat: Research funding at FSU brings in record $233 million
- Gary Ostrander, vice president for research at FSU, wrote an op-ed for the Tallahassee Democrat about the impact FSU’s research endeavors have on the region and the state. Ostrander specifically mentioned College of Medicine Professor Michael Blaber’s NIH-funded research on a potential therapy for Fuchs’ dystrophy.
Tallahassee Democrat: Growth of Florida State research benefits region, state
- FSU launched a new online curriculum for a professional certification in trauma and resilience. Professor and Chair of Family Medicine & Rural Health Joedrecka Brown Speights said, “It’s important for human services professionals to keep up with the new research on brain development so they remember there is always hope for healing after trauma.”
FSU News: Florida State launches professional certification in trauma and resilience
Tallahassee Democrat: FSU launches professional certification in trauma and resilience
- FSU faculty members led an effort at the FSU Innovation Hub to show local business, government and education professionals how to use an effective and creative problem-solving process called Design Thinking during FSU’s Design Thinking Deep Dive in July. Research faculty member Emily Pritchard attended and commented on the structure of the event.
FSU News: FSU leads community in effort to use new approach to solving old problems
- Lab-grown cerebral organoids, or “mini-brains,” are grown from stem cells and used for scientific study. Although they don’t “think,” they do show complex neural activity, researchers say. Yi Zhou, associate professor at the College of Medicine, was not involved in the study but commented on the new research for a CNN article.
CNN: ‘Mini-brains’ show complex neural activity
- This summer, like each of the last 12, the College of Medicine hosted high school students for the SSTRIDE Summer Institute. More than 600 students have participated over the years, and many are now attending medical school – including second-year med student Lisa Fusco.
FSU News: SSTRIDE Summer Institute: From ‘mini med school’ to the real thing
- Operation Tobacco Free Marine is a Marine Corps-sponsored tobacco cessation program designed to help members of the Marine Corps quit tobacco completely. The program has been successful and was developed with collaboration from the FSU College of Medicine’s Tobacco Treatment Specialist Program and the Smoking Cessation Clinic for the Tampa Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
DVIDS: Operation Tobacco Free Marine
- Trefoil Therapeutics, a private biotechnology company, raised $28 million to develop a therapy to treat serious corneal endothelial diseases and epithelial disorders. The technology underlying Trefoil’s platform was developed by co-founder and College of Medicine Professor Michael Blaber.
Business Insider: Trefoil Therapeutics raises $28 million to advance its technology
- A pipeline scholarship program from the American Academy of Neurology brought medical students, including second-year FSU med student Christy Soares, to their first AAN Annual Meeting, and it confirmed their resolve to pursue neurology.
Neurology Today: A pipeline program inspires future neurologists
- Russell Samson, clerkship faculty member at the Sarasota Regional Campus, received the Excellence in Teaching Award at this year’s Florida Vascular Society Scientific Sessions in Hollywood, Florida. Samson practices at Sarasota Vascular Specialists.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Business people (June 24)
- First-year College of Medicine students fanned out across North Florida and southwest Georgia back in May to explore rural health care as part of the Rural Learning Experience. Med students Amber Hannah and Chase Forehand shared their experience with WCTV.
WCTV: FSU’s Rural Medical Education Program