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The FSU College of Medicine and Sarasota Memorial Health Care System are partnering to offer the area's first Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship.

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Numerous College of Medicine faculty were mentioned in Florida State University's November 2019 edition of the Faculty and Staff Briefs for their honors, awards, publications and more.

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The FSU College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program at BayCare Health System (Winter Haven) received accreditation from the ACGME.

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In an article that ran in the Jackson County Floridian, Tomeka Norton-Brown, project coordinator for ACTS 2 wrote, "Caregivers are some of the strongest people I know. They’re dedicated, reliable and selfless. In my line of work, we also know that selflessness – though admirable – can be harmful to your health." Her article was written in recognition of National Family Caregivers Month.

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The FSU College of Medicine and Sarasota Memorial Health Care System are partnering to offer the area's first hospice and palliative medicine fellowship. It is one of the 13 approved sites in Florida where board-certified physicians can acquire advanced training to address the many medical and psychological issues that accompany serious illness or end-of-life care.

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In a Naples Daily News article about the language barrier in Southwest Florida's growing Mayan community and its impact on a sexual assault case, Javier Rosado, director of clinical research at the FSU College of Medicine's Center for Child Stress & Health in Immokalee, comments on the often crowded migrant housing in the area that can put children at risk for sexual abuse. Through partnerships with the Healthcare Network of Southwest Florida and the Immokalee Pediatric and Women's Health clinics, Immokalee children are screened for sexual abuse and other adversity.

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Florida State University’s annual Three Minute Thesis competition is an opportunity for doctoral students to practice explaining their work to a non-specialized audience, whether that’s a group of business executives, legislators who want to know more or a student’s curious grandparents at Thanksgiving dinner. 

Judges selected Alyssa Henderson, a doctoral student in the Department of Physics, and Sara Jones, a doctoral student in the College of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Sciences, as this year’s first-place winners. They each earned a $1,000 prize and advance to a regional competition. 

Jones explained her research on how the artificial sweetener aspartame could cause anxious behavior that fathers may pass down to their offspring. She studies how exposure to aspartame affects whether certain genes are turned on or off, and how those changes are passed to descendants, a concept known as transgenerational transmission.

“I hope this research gets us thinking about that concept,” she said. “It has global implications for today and for generations to come.”

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