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Jun 24, 2020
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Ohio’s aggressive, early response to coronavirus and its measured reopening helped Ohio avoid a spike in cases seen in other Republican states like Texas, Florida and Arizona, experts say. In Florida, “our public health officials have been much less visible than they have in Ohio,” said Dr. Leslie Beitsch, a Florida State University College of Medicine professor and a former Florida Department of Health official.

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Jun 25, 2020
Greene Publishing, Inc.
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Niharika Suchak has been named Big Bend Hospice's new medical director. Dr. Suchak has served as the associate medical director since February 2016. Suchak is a clinician-educator and an associate professor in the Department of Geriatrics at the College of Medicine. She is the director of Year 1 Clinical Skills at the med school and also serves as medical director of FSU TeleHealthTM, and chair of the FSU TeleHealthTM Committee.

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Jun 24, 2020
FSU College of Social Work
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Melissa Radey, professor in the College of Social Work, is conducting a project that seeks to examine the economic, social, and health impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerable single-mother families.Dr. Radey’s research team includes co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Joedrecka Brown Speights, a professor with the FSU College of Medicine and social work graduate research assistants.

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Jun 23, 2020
National MagLab
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In recent years, MagLab biomedical engineer Sam Grant has studied how stem cell therapies can help the body recover from stroke and other health problems. But in April, with colleagues from the Florida State University College of Medicine and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, he began aiming the technique at a new enemy: COVID-19. The study is led by College of Medicine Associate Professor David Meckes.