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Florida State University will welcome about 42,000 students — including what is expected to be one of the largest incoming freshman classes in university history — as classes begin for the 2017-2018 academic year Monday, Aug. 28. Florida State’s total enrollment includes nearly 8,000 students pursuing a graduate or professional degree, including 40 students in the College of Medicine’s new physician assistant program.

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Elliot Cohen, Professor of Philosophy at Indian River State College and Fort Pierce Regional Campus clerkship faculty member at the FSU College of Medicine, has been honored with the Anne R. Snyder Department Chair Excellence Award.

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Suffolk native Lataisia Jones is the first black or African American Ph.D. graduate at the Florida State University College of Medicine. She earned her degree on August 5.

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Staff at Winter Haven Hospital are teaming up with Polk County leaders and other local healthcare providers to help deal with a shortage of primary care doctors. The hospital is currently in discussion with Florida State University College of Medicine to
create a partnership, which shares a similar mission to train primary care physicians.

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Dr. Lataisia C. Jones became the first African-American student to have earned a Ph.D in Biomedical Sciences from the Florida State University College of Medicine.

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Stephanie Nicole Williams, a St. Petersburg native, is one of ve second-year students at the Florida State University College of Medicine chosen as a Chapman Humanism Scholar.

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The findings of a new and comprehensive study from FSU College of Medicine Associate Professor Antonio Terracciano and colleagues, published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry has found no evidence to support the idea that personality changes begin before the clinical onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia.

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Dance Marathon at Florida State University and Children’s Miracle Network at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital will present a check for more than $915,000 to the FSU College of Medicine to aid children throughout Gadsden and Leon counties.

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African-American dementia caregivers who’ve participated in the African- American Alzheimer’s Caregiver Training and Support Project 2 (ACTS 2) over the past 24 months report their stress has decreased and their spiritual and emotional support has improved greatly. This free, five-year project coordinated by Rob Glueckauf, Ph.D., faculty member in the Florida State University College of Medicine, and his health service team is seeking new caregiver participants and group facilitators.