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Apr 08, 2025
Florida State University News
College of Medicine's primary care program tops all Florida public medical schools

The Florida State University College of Medicine's primary care program earned the highest designation in Florida among public medical schools, according to the recently released 2025 U.S. News & World Report's edition of Best Graduate Schools.

In all, 21 graduate programs at FSU are ranked in the Top 25 among public universities.

"Having access to a primary care physician provides a foundation for healthy individuals and entire communities," said College of Medicine Dean, Alma Littles. "This ranking underscores our commitment to serving the health care needs of Floridians - and we are proud that more than half of our graduates continue to live and work in this state."

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Apr 08, 2025
Tallahassee Democrat

Florida State University President Richard McCullough, in an opinion piece published in the Tallahassee Democrat, emphasized the importance of establishing Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) as an academic medical center. McCullough wrote: 

An academic medical center is a hospital that is closely partnered with a medical school at a major research university. It combines patient care, medical education, and groundbreaking research. It is a place where physicians, scientists, and educators work together to heal patients, discover new treatments, and train the next generation of health care professionals. Academic medical centers have driven some of the greatest advancements in modern medicine.

McCullough went on to tout the partnership between the FSU College of Medicine and TMH that has existed for decades and the goal to "expand these commitments and make them even better."


 

 

Dean Bentze recognized with the 2025 AMWA Exceptional Mentor Award

Mar 29, 2025
Dean Bentze at AMWA

Nicole Bentze, DO (College of Medicine) was among those honored with the 2025 AMWA Exceptional Mentor Award at the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) 110th Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the Women in Healthcare World Congress, in Boston, MA.

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Apr 01, 2025
Psychology Today

Research led by the FSU College of Medicine Department of Geriatrics reveals that unmarried people are at least 50% less likely to experience cognitive decline. The work of lead and corresponding author Selin Karakose, a postdoctoral scholar alongside professor and principal investigator Antonio Terracciano, was covered in an April 1 article in Psychology Today.

The study findings were reported in "Marital status and risk of dementia over 18 year: Surprising findings fron the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center," in Alzheimer's & Dementia. 

The study included 24,000 participants between the ages of 50 and 104, who took a neuropsychological test of cognitive status annually and were evaluated by clinicians.

 

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FSU researchers show potential of new treatment for pediatric brain cancer

Aug 12, 2024
FSU researchers show potential of new treatment for pediatric brain cancer

Florida State University researchers are giving oncologists another tool in their fight against pediatric brain cancer.

In work published in Bioactive Materials, a research team led by Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Qing-Xiang “Amy” Sang showed the possibility of enhancing natural killer immune cells to improve their ability to attack a rare pediatric brain cancer.

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Defining Study Populations in HIV Prevention Implementation Science Studies: A Case Comparison of 3 Ending the HIV Epidemic Projects

Mar 31, 2025

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A new leader emerges in Tallahassee's fight against homelessness

Mar 27, 2025

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Mar 12, 2025
WebMD

With 222 documented measles cases in the past two months across at least 12 states, including one confirmed death, there's a growing concern among medical professionals that other preventable diseases, like polio, rubella and mumps, could also make a comeback. There has been a significant increase in vaccination exemptions across the country.

"The threshold for achieving what people call herd immunity - I prefer the term community immunity - is 95%," said George Rust, M.D., MPH, a professor and co-director of the Center for Medicine and Public Health at the FSU College of Medicine.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nationwide vaccination rate for the measles was 93% for the 2022-23 school year.
 

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Stanwood invited to National Academy of Medicine forum

Associate Professor Gregg Stanwood, Ph.D., has been invited to participate in the National Academy of Medicine’s 2025 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Forum (NAM ELHM) in Washington, D.C., next month.

Gregg StanwoodThe exclusive, invitation-only forum is a key gathering of the ELHM program, which aims to increase the NAM’s engagement with exceptional, interdisciplinary early- to mid-career professionals working in biomedical science, population health, health care, health policy and related fields. 

A developmental neuropharmacologist and behavioral neuroscientist in the College of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Sciences, Stanwood is one of 11 faculty members in Biomedical Sciences who serve as faculty members for the College of Arts and Sciences’ Program in Neuroscience. He said he is “honored and excited to represent” Florida State University at the event.

“This is a chance to share some of the wonderful ideas and programs from the College of Medicine with members of the National Academy,” Stanwood said.

The ELHM program facilitates opportunities for mentorship, collaboration and innovation among the emerging leaders, NAM members and experts across sectors. The ELHM forum provides a platform for scholars and NAM members to come together and identify novel approaches to shared challenges in health and medicine and spark transformative change across fields.

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