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Oct 16, 2012
WCTV
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Kristopher R. “Ryan” Shannon, a second-year student in the Florida State University College of Medicine, has been named one of only 40 students nationwide to receive a 2012 Tylenol Future Care Scholarship. The scholarship will provide him with $10,000 to apply toward his studies.

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Oct 15, 2012
Vires Fall 2012
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Head football coach Jimbo Fisher and Candi Fisher, chairwoman of their nonprofit Kidz1stFund, were the special guests at a Nov. 9 seminar on Changing the Practice of Medicine: The FA Story. The FSU College of Medicine hosted the seminar, which was sponsored by Capital Regional Medical Center.

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Oct 10, 2012
Tallahassee Democrat
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There are as many reactions to a breast cancer diagnosis as there are women who receive one. But the prospect of death almost always looms. Most of the one in eight women in the U.S. who get breast cancer don’t die of the disease. But the instant response of many to the diagnosis mirrors that of long-time state employee Vanda Ragans last summer.

The article quotes both Dr. Nancy Van Vessem and Dr. Lea Kristin Parsley who are faculty members of the College of Medicine.

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Oct 04, 2012
Tallahassee Democrat
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Two Tallahassee physicians were honored in August as outstanding faculty members at the Florida State College of Medicine — where one of them graduated just seven years ago. The honorees were Alex Ho, an ER doctor at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, and Eileen Venable, psychiatry clerkship director and practicing psychiatrist.

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Oct 04, 2012
Tallahassee Democrat
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An interview about flu vaccines with Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi, M.D., chairman of the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Contact him at ric.gonzalez-rothi@med.fsu.edu.  www.youtube.com/watch

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Oct 03, 2012
Tallahassee Democrat
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Though Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente was fit, healthy and happy and had no family history of breast cancer, her routine mammogram revealed she had an early stage of the disease that later would spread, ultimately resulting in two surgeries, a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction, followed by months of chemotherapy. She lost her hair, and one day boldly ditched the wig she hated and took to the bench bald.

Two College of Medicine faculty members, Nancy Van Vessem and Lea Parsley are quoted in the article.

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Oct 01, 2012
Tallahassee Democrat
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Lisa Johnson, M.D. and Joedrecka Brown, M.D. are both faculty of the FSU College of Medicine and will be caring for patients in the Gadsden practice.

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Sep 27, 2012
Tallahassee Democrat
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The Autism Institute at Florida State’s College of Medicine is part of a new $8.3 million study to measure risk and resilience factors for autism in infants and toddlers. The goal is to better understand developmental trajectories in children with autism and to improve early detection, intervention and outcomes.

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Sep 26, 2012
Reuters
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A system where doctors routinely reported drivers who might be impaired by chronic illness
cut the risk of car crashes by 45 percent in a new study from Ontario, Canada.

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Sep 07, 2012
Florida State 24/7
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Some medical schools’ first-year students have been waiting all summer for fall classes to begin. But at the Florida State University College of Medicine, the Class of 2016 already has wrapped up one semester, conquered the anatomy lab and begun wearing the timeless symbol of the profession: the white coat.

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