Avon Doll and Michael Forsthoefel, both members of the Tallahassee Regional Campus clerkship faculty, have been chosen to receive prestigious awards from the Capital Medical Society.

Doll, who practices with North Florida Nephrology Associates, is receiving the group's I.B. Harrison, M.D. Humanitarian Award. It's given each year to a physician who personifies the best of the medical profession.

Forsthoefel, clerkship director for internal medicine at the Tallahassee campus, Is receiving the Outstanding Physician Award for distinguished leadership. He practices with Southern Medical Group. 

The awards will be presented March 24 at the FSU University Center Club. 

Biomedical Sciences Associate Professors Akash Gunjan and Eric Laywell received $100,000 from the Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research to study "Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Histone H3.3 Mutant Childhood Glioblastomas" for two years beginning in April.

Associate Professor James Olcese's company, KynderMed, is a top-16 finalist for the Cade Museum Prize. The Cade Museum Prize for Innovation is an annual competition for early-stage inventors and entrepreneurs in Florida. It provides $50,000 of seed capital and publicity for great ideas with market potential. There were over 100 entries. The final four will be announced March 28, and the winner will be announced April 30. This is the second time the Biomedical Sciences reearcher's company is among the finalists.

Michael Muszynski, associate dean for clinical research, was recently appointed to the editorial board of Florida Pediatrician, a peer-reviewed publication affiliated with the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The journal is published quarterly and aims to improve the health and welfare of Florida’s newborns, infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Medical students, residents and faculty members may submit articles for review for publication. Prospective FSU College of Medicine authors may contact Muszynski for additional information at michael.muszynski@med.fsu.edu.

Geriatrics Professor Ken Brummel-Smith was selected by the National Research Council and the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, as a member of the Forum on Aging, Disability and Independence from March 15, 2016 through April 26, 2020. The Forum on Aging, Disability and Independence enables discussion of issues related to bridging the research, policy and practice interests of the aging and disability communities. The Forum will host its next workshop on June 27, 2016 in Washington, D.C. 

Biomedical Sciences graduate student Lataisia Jones, M.S., was awarded the Leslie N. Wilson-Delores Auzenne Graduate Assistantship. The award covers Jones' tuition for fall 2016 and spring 2017. It also includes a $5,000 bonus to her stipend. Jones entered the department's Ph.D. program in 2012 under Professor Pradeep Bhide.

March 2016

Dean John Fogarty has appointed Daniel Van Durme, family medicine and rural health chair, to associate dean for clinical and community affairs. Van Durme will assume the additional role beginning April 1.

Van Durme has served as vice president of the college’s Faculty Practice Plan since 2009. He has also served on the Florida Medical Practice Plan Visioning Task Force to address the potential need for a clinical practice for the college. He will lead the effort to move forward with a local practice for the college’s clinical faculty members.

March 2016

Dean John Fogarty has appointed Daniel Van Durme, family medicine and rural health chair, to associate dean for clinical and community affairs. Van Durme will assume the additional role beginning April 1.

Van Durme has served as vice president of the college’s Faculty Practice Plan since 2009. He has also served on the Florida Medical Practice Plan Visioning Task Force to address the potential need for a clinical practice for the college. He will lead the effort to move forward with a local practice for the college’s clinical faculty members.

Associate Professor James Olcese's company, KynderMed, was selected to be in the final four for the Cade Museum Prize. The final selection is made April 30 when the winner is awarded $50,000.

 Assistant Professor Michael Nair-Collins has been selected to receive the Graduate Teaching Award during the University's annual Faculty Awards Dinner on April 27. The award recognizes faculty for excellence in graduate teaching through nominations submitted by students and alumni.