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Dance Marathon at FSU and Children's Miracle Network at University of Florida Health Shands Children's Hospital presented a check for more than $1 million to the FSU College of Medicine on Thursday, Sept. 27. The proceeds benefit children throughout Gadsden and Leon counties through school-based primary-care clinics and area pediatric outreach initiatives.

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The FSU College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program at Lee Health aims to recruit residents and retain them in the area. A study from the American Medical Association previously found that about 56 percent of doctors stay within 100 miles of their residency programs. The need for new doctors — particularly certain specialties, such as primary care — is only expected to grow in Florida as the population continues to boom.

Watch a video interview with first-year resident and College of Medicine alumna Tatianna Pizzutto (M.D., '18).

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The Florida Department of Health announced that Florida is one of seven states to receive grant funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration to address the mental health needs of pregnant and postpartum women. The department will partner with the FSU College of Medicine and the Florida Maternal Mental Health Collaborative. Professor and Vice Chair for Research Heather Flynn will serve as principal investigator.

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As the College of Medicine's Pensacola Regional Campus celebrates its 15th anniversary, Regional Campus Dean Paul McLeod thanks the more than 260 clerkship faculty members who mentor the Pensacola campus students during the future physicians' third and fourth years of med school. 

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Angelina Sutin, associate professor in the College of Medicine's Department of Behavioral Sciences received a grant to study why people with Latino backgrounds have a 50 percent greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than non-Latino whites.

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Deirdre McCarthy, Pradeep Bhide and a team of researchers from the FSU College of Medicine published a study that suggests nicotine use among fathers can cause epigenetic changes that are passed to children and even grandchildren.

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New research from College of Medicine researcher Pradeep Bhide suggests that smoking by fathers may cause changes in their sperm that lead to cognitive deficits in their children - and even their grandchildren.

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A new study from College of Medicine researcher Pradeep Bhide published in PLOS Biology found that nicotine-addicted mice and two generations of their offspring had behavioral deficits in learning and attention compared to a control group of mice who had not been exposed to any nicotine.

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Researchers have figured out how a father's experiences can influence the health and development of his descendants from sperm: chemical modifications in the DNA. Through epigenetic changes, chemical modifications are made to DNA and genes are turned on or off in different cells and at different developmental states. College of Medicine researcher Pradeep Bhide and his team found that a father's exposure to nicotine may cause cognitive deficits in his children and grandchildren because of epigenetic changes in key genes in the father's sperm.

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At the recent Faculty Appreciation Celebration, the FSU College of Medicine's Fort Pierce Regional Campus awarded four $5,000 scholarships to fourth-year students in the Class of 2019.