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Dec 03, 2018
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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Reuben Holland, emergency medicine specialist and clerkship faculty member at the FSU College of Medicine's Sarasota Regional Campus, was named Sarasota Memorial Hospital's 2018 Physician of the Year.

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Nov 30, 2018
Los Alamos Daily Post
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Award-winning biological chemist Zucai Suo has joined the FSU College of Medicine as the Dorian and John Blackmon Endowed Chair in Translational Research.

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Dec 03, 2018
Orlando Health
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Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at the College of Medicine's Orlando Regional Campus, Benjamin Kaplan, wrote a blog post for Orlando Health in conjunction with med students Gerry Samantha Eichelberger and Jordan Carbono. The post is about the physical and mental health benefits of walking.

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Dec 03, 2018
Healio
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A new survey has found that breastfeeding support for hospital employees is increasing, except when it comes to providing on-site child care. The survey showed that hospitals in the U.S. provided more breastfeeding support to their employees between 2007 and 2015, but less than two percent of respondents offered all seven breastfeeding supports. Joan Meek, associate dean for graduate medical education and professor at the FSU College of Medicine, gives her perspective on the survey implications.

Dr. Sylvie Naar to join the FSU College of Medicine and lead behavioral health center

Jan 31, 2018
photo of Dr. Sylvie Naar

Dr. Sylvie Naar is a world-class researcher and she has been hired to direct FSU’s new Center for Translational Behavioral Research, a campuswide center on behavioral health.  Dr. Naar is a Distinguished Endowed Professor in Behavioral Health in the medical school’s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine.

“Dr. Naar is a world-class researcher with a long track record of significant research contributions in the behavioral health sciences,” said Gary Ostrander, FSU’s vice president for Research. “We are excited about the possibilities that this new translational center will bring to our community.”  More information.

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Jun 24, 2013
Psychiatric News Alert
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A recent study by Angelina Sutin, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medical humanities and social sciences at FSU, and her colleagues, was published in JAMA Psychiatry. According to the report, depressive symptoms are highest in young adulthood, decrease in midlife, and then increase in later years.

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Jun 27, 2013
The News-Press
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The groundwork is being set for Lee Memorial Health System to be called a teaching hospital. In April the final nails should be in place at the renovated Family Medicine Clinic, where six graduates of Florida State University Medical School will begin a residency in July 2014 in the first program of its kind in Southwest Florida.

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Jul 03, 2013
BioPortfolio
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Eric Laywell, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, has received a $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore a new therapeutic agent and treatment method for brain cancer.

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Jul 08, 2013
Tallahassee Democrat Campus Notes
NIH grant helps FSU researcher study brain tumors
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FSU College of Medicine researcher Eric Laywell is shifting the focus from eradicating brain tumors to managing them. He has received a $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore a new therapeutic agent and treatment method for brain cancer. The therapeutic agent Laywell and his lab are using is EdU (pronounced E-D-U). It is typically used to label and track cells that divide, but Laywell’s team discovered that over a longer period of time, EdU has a toxic effect: The cells divide more slowly and sometimes die.

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Jul 09, 2013
Annals of Internal Medicine
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An article by Dr. Marshall Kapp, director of the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law at Florida State University College of Medicine, discussing the safety of gun ownership among the elderly and a physician’s right to engage in firearm related inquiries.

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