College of Medicine

Obstetrics and Gynecology physician Dr. Kathryn Gard, has joined Sarasota Memorial Hospital's First Physician's Group.  Dr. Gard is a 2013 graduate of FSU's College of Medicine.  Welcome back to Sarasota!

Drs. Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch, Karen Hamad, and Vida Farhangi bring quality, affordable care to Newtown. 

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. 

This award is in recognition of his dedication to the art and science of medicine, his compassion for patients and their families, his personal and professional growth and his academic excellence.

Students from the Class of 2017 learn where they will be continuing their medical training.  Watch as our students literally open an envelope to find out where they will be going.   www.med.fsu.edu