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. 

During the 11th Annual Innovators' Reception, many College of Medicine faculty members were recognized for efforts to commercialize their research through start-up companies, obtaining a license, receiving a GAP grant or being issued a patent.

Start-up companies:

• Ewa Bienkiewicz
• James Olcese

Licenses:

• Myra Hurt
• Raed Rizkallah

GAP grant recipients:

• Pradeep Bhide
• Deirdre McCarthy
• Branko Stefanovic

Patents issued:

• Ewa Bienkiewicz
• Myra Hurt
• Sanjay Kumar
• James Olcese

Alumna Christie Alexander (M.D., '05) led a dsicussion called, "Serving our Neighbors," about student-run free clinics in Florida at the first Chapman Regional Symposium of Florida Gold Humanism Honor Society chapters on April 23.

FSU College of Medicine students in attendance:

• Tamra Travers
• John-Anthony Coppola
• Dijo Joseph
• Keith Kincaid
• Stephanie Tran
• Stefano Leitner
• Adhish Singh

FSU College of Medicine faculty in attendance:

• Daniel Van Durme
• Robert Watson

Pam Carbiener, Daytona Beach Regional Campus OB-GYN clerkship director, was named the 2016 Humanitarian of the Year by the Volusia County Medical Society on April 27.

Niharika Suchak, Associate Professor in the Department of Geriatrics, and Debra Danforth, Director of the Maguire Medical Library, won first place in the 2016 Florida Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association meeting in Orlando during the weekend of April 29. Their poster was titled, "MUST-SIT together©: An Interprofessional Education Model Using Simulation" and was based on work with the Geriatics Interest Group interprofessional education event.