College of Medicine

From Dean Fogarty:     It is bittersweet to announce that Dr. Bruce Berg has decided to step down from his role as Regional Campus Dean at our Sarasota Regional Medical Campus and retire this fall. He has had a long and distinguished career with the FSU College of Medicine, establishing the Sarasota campus fourteen years ago as Founding Dean and helped us navigate through one of our early LCME site visits there in 2006. One of his first duties was to host the LCME for a site visit prior to having students there. Before this, he served for many years in Sarasota as a Pulmonologist and Intensivist and helped SMH implement their first EMR before joining the College of Medicine. His relationships with SMH were critical to our efforts to establish residency programs there, first in Internal Medicine and recently in Emergency Medicine. As we celebrated the 10th anniversary of that campus in 2016, it was obvious that Bruce has made great contributions to that campus in his time there. He has mentored and guided our first generation of students there and served as a great advocate and advisor for them. I attended the campus graduation dinner there last week and it was obvious the great admiration and affection that the whole campus and community has for him.

He has been talking to his family over the last several years about when retirement might be appropriate and the fall of this year seemed like the best time. He looks forward to spending more time with family and grandchildren and more time sailing in the waters around Sarasota. I have formed a search committee to identify Dr. Berg’s replacement. Dr. Juliette Lomax-Homier has agreed to chair the committee. They will meet over this summer to identify candidates and we hope to have the new Dean named in late summer to work with Dr. Berg during a transition time.

Please join me in thanking Dean Berg for his excellent service and dedication to the College of Medicine in his 14 years as Regional Dean. There will be more details over the summer on plans for celebrating this important transition.

With best wishes,
 

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Sarasota Pediatrician, and FSU Sarasota Clerkship Faculty member,  Katherine Keeley, MD, was awarded Sarasota Memorial Hospital's 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award on October, 24, 2017. 

In a Sarasota neighborhood with no doctor’s offices and little access to health care, a new clinic in Newtown is bringing medical care and so much more.

Since the turn of the last century and the days of segregation, the Newtown neighborhood north of Downtown Sarasota has been predominantly African-American, and as development pushed capital into other neighborhoods, the neighborhood went mostly ignored. That changed last week when a long-held dream became reality for one physician with a vision: Dr. Karen Hamad, the associate director of the Florida State University College of Medicine’s Internal Residency Program at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. At the ribbon opening ceremony for the clinic last week, Dr. Hamad talked about the three years it took to put the pieces together for the Jean and Alfred Goldstein Health Center, which will be more than a clinic.

By Community Board member, Dr. Washington Hill

This is a win-win-win for all involved: Florida State University College of Medicine, Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System and Sarasota’s Newtown community.
The health care will be provided by Florida State University College of Medicine internal medicine residents, supervised by Sarasota Memorial Hospital internal medicine physicians and attending doctors.
A diverse group of 13 residents from around the world and six attending physicians and faculty are already caring for patients in the hospital and in local outpatient and physician practice settings. All are sensitive to the complex needs of the Newtown community’s patients. This will be a comprehensive, three-year internal medicine training program.

There are far too few residency programs in Florida for medical students to attend upon graduation and opportunities to stay and practice in Sarasota and Florida. This program will help alleviate that problem.
It is a win for Florida State University College of Medicine, which is always striving to educate medical students and residents to be the best they can be.

Dan Bailey was inducted into the 2017 Community Video Archives on April 24.  The mission of CVA is to preserve a living hisotry of our community. 

Renee Hamad was the star of the April 18 celebrity roast benefiting the Sertoma Sarasota, a local chapoter of a national nonprofit assisting people wtih speech, hearing, and language diorders.