For the week of May 7, 2012 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world

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Women turn to USF menopause clinic for help with all aspects of midlife’s transition

ABC Action News – WFTS Channel 28

Doctor Barry Verkauf runs USF’s new Menopause Clinic at TGH. Their sole goal is to treat women like Laurel for their specific symptoms

The science behind those senior moments

WTVT – FOX 13

“It’s kind of stressful and embarrassing,” explains Dr. Amanda Smith, medical director at the USF Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute.

Dangerous infections from contact lenses

WTVT – FOX 13

“It only takes one day, one bad event, where some bacteria got under a lens and you’re not even aware of it until the next day, and that next day could be too late,” says Dr. Chuck Slonim, USF Health Ophthalmologist.

New state-wide screening program for babies
WTSP 10 News
Dr. John Sleasman says the newborn screening program will catch SCID much earlier.

Study: triplets fare well as teenagers

Fox News

Not much has been known about older kids, according to Dr. Rajan Wadhawan, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg.

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New Push to Treat the Other Diabetes
The Wall Street Journal
People who test positive are asked to join a monitoring study that estimates the level of risk for developing the disease, says Henry Rodriguez, a TrialNet principal investigator at the University of South Florida.

Informed Patient: Doctors Ramp Up Type 1 Diabetes Screening
The Wall Street Journal (Blog)
For Type 1 patients with a family history, participation in the study includes close monitoring and the potential to prevent or delay the onset of the disease, says Henry Rodriguez, a principal investigator at the University Of South Florida.

USF researcher gets attention with “Parkinson’s personality” study
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Trying to come at the problem from a different angle, Kelly Sullivan, an epidemiologist in the neurology department at the University of South Florida, interviewed 89 Parkinson’s patients, including many at the Southeastern Center for Parkinson Disease in Sarasota

Parkinson’s disease patients more risk averse, USF researchers find

Tampa Bay Times

Kelly Sullivan, a researcher in neuroepidemiology at USF’s Morsani College of Medicine, says there is evidence of an intriguing link between personality and Parkinson’s disease.

Caring for fading memories
The Observer News
On April 26, Eileen Poiley, Educational Coordinator at the University of South Florida Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, began training Sun Towers staff members on issues involved in working with people with dementia.

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For the week of April 30, 2012 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world

TELEVISION NEWS
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USF hopes Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulations will have global reach
WTSP 10 News
USF says the $38 million Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation is the largest of its kind, with 90,000 square feet under one roof.

Former Army doc to head Fla. Health Department
Fox10tv.com
Dr. John Armstrong assumes the new responsibilities on May 23. He served as an associate professor of surgery with the college of medicine at the University of South Florida since 2011.

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USF Hopes Surgery Center Will Have Global Reach
The Ledger (Featured in more than 81 news outlets including: The Miami Herald, WTSP 10 News, and WDTN)
The new $38 million Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Center, which covers a half block in downtown Tampa, will certainly benefit USF med students, but it’s also expected to draw around 30,000 health professionals from around the world every year to hone their surgical skills

USF opens new Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation

HealthySimulation.com

The University of South Florida recently opened the new 90,000 square foot Center for Advanced Medical Learning & Simulation in Tampa.

Top USF doctor to become state surgeon general
The Tampa Tribune
John Armstrong was a premier hire for the University of South Florida when he left the University of Florida last year to become the chief medical officer of USF’s high-tech medical training center in downtown Tampa

Movers and Shakers: Scott appoints state surgeon general
The Miami Herald (Blog)
Gov. Rick Scott names John. H. Armstrong as the state’s new surgeon general and secretary of the Department of Health. Armstrong is an associate professor and chief medical officer at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation.

New Department of Health secretary now on board
Florida Current
Armstrong is an associate professor at the University of South Florida and chief medical officer of USF’s Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation.

John Armstrong named Surgeon General, Secretary of Health
Sunshine State News (Blog)
Dr. John H. Armstrong, M.D., has been named by Gov. Rick Scott to be Florida’s surgeon general and secretary of the Florida Department of Health.

Menopause happens: Start hormone replacement therapy, and for how long?

Tampa Bay Times

“So many women are affected,” said Dr. Barry Verkauf, director of the new Menopause Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Berries taken at least once a week can preserve memory functions: Study
News-Medical.Net
“I think it’s very exciting,” said Brent Small, professor of aging studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa. “Because there’s not a lot that’s been reported in the human literature that’s focused on these types of compounds.”

USF receives funds, makes plans for Heart Health Institute
83 Degrees

USF Health has also pledged approximately $25 million in resources for genomics-based personalized medicine, including funds for research equipment, facilities and the recruitment of two top physicians: Dr. Leslie Miller, USF chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, and Dr. Stephen Liggett, a nationally prominent researcher who will become director of the Personalized Medicine Institute.

Parkinson’s Personality: Disease more likely to strike cautious people
My Health News Daily

It’s possible that what we consider to be aspects of someone’s personality may in fact be very early manifestations of Parkinson’s, said study researcher Kelly Sullivan, of the University of South Florida’s department of neurology.

Parkinson’s Personality: Disease more likely to strike cautious people
LiveScience
It’s possible that what we consider to be aspects of someone’s personality may in fact be very early manifestations of Parkinson’s, said study researcher Kelly Sullivan, of the University of South Florida’s department of neurology.

Researchers at UPMC, Stanford test stem cells to enhance stroke recovery
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Doctors won’t know the outcome for several months, but tests in laboratory rats by Cesario Borlongan at the University of South Florida have shown that the stem cells improved motor function in animals that had suffered a stroke, and the cells secreted several growth and anti-inflammatory factors in the lab.

Medical students’ ceremony honors the people who donated their bodies to science
Tampa Bay Times
On April 20, dozens of medical and physical therapy students gathered in the grass outside the University of South Florida anatomy lab for one final matter: to thank the 24 cadavers they called their “silent teachers.” Opening the ceremony, which USF students hold once a year, was the director of anatomy, Dr. Orhan E. Arslan.

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For the week of April 23, 2012 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world

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At the Heart of Art on WTSP – Channel 10
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USF hopes surgery center will have global reach

The Associated Press

“The thing that makes it a huge deal is the fact that we have the ability to simulate everything we do in real life,” said Dr. Karl Illig, chief of vascular surgery at USF medical school.

Two USF inventors are finalists for $50,000 prize
Tampa Bay Times
The finalists include the “eCath” developed by Phil Hipol and Stuart Hart at USF. The Sun said their electronic catheter stethoscope allows doctors to hear inside the body using non-invasive electronic sensors attached to a catheter.

University of South Florida inventors up for $500K prize
Tampa Bay Business Journal (Blog)
So far, USF’s Phil Hipol and Stuart Hart have survived three rounds of judging from almost 30 judges to get to the finals.

LVADs May Confer Unfair Transplant Advantage

MedPage Today

“The non-LVAD status 1A patient is the sickest patient on the list at any one time,” Leslie Miller, MD, cardiology chair at the University of South Florida in Tampa, told MedPage Today. Miller was not involved in the study.

New post-hoc analyses examined neupro(R) effects on pain, depressed mood, apathy and fatigue in patients with Parkinson’s Disease
MarketWatch
“Post hoc analyses of large amounts of data like these provide valuable insights into the potential impact of rotigotine on the everyday lives of people with Parkinson’s, and signal a need for further study in this area,” said Professor Robert Hauser, Director, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

USF Research Creates Psycho Therapy For Veterans
83 Degrees
Dr. Kevin Kip, associate professor and executive director of the College of Nursing Research Center, is the principal investigator of a study to test the effects of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) to treat emotional problems and related symptoms that arise from serving in combat operations.

Heart Health Institute to serve as ‘economic driver’
The Oracle Online
USF Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences Dr. Leslie Miller said the money awarded will help with planning, and USF has already been able to recruit two nationally prominent doctors who specialize in personalized medicine — Dr. Jennifer Hall and Dr. Stephen Liggett.

UPF clothing blocks the sun’s rays; but affordable sunscreen helps, too
Tampa Bay Times
Still, strategic sun avoidance should be your first line of defense, says Dr. Neil Fenske, professor and chairman of the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of South Florida.

Lawsuit unveils hidden payments

Health News Florida

That such a “blatant” financial lure would be put in writing stuns medical-legal expert Jay Wolfson, University of South Florida associate vice president for health law, policy and safety.

Industry-Sponsored Studies More Likely To Generate Positive Results
Pharmacy Practice News

Using three metrics to assess treatment success in clinical trials, Dr. Djulbegovic, of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Health Outcomes Research, University of South Florida and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, and his colleagues found that new treatments are favored over standard treatments in industry-sponsored trials in comparison with trials funded by the public agency by each metric used.

Joint-Replacement Failure Rate Higher for Smokers: Studies
HealthDay
One way is to refuse to perform surgery on patients who smoke, said Dr. Glenn Rechtine, an orthopedic surgeon and associate chief of staff and adjunct professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

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For the week of April 16, 2012 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world

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Project World Health at USF Health
YouTube
A few USF Health Morsani College of Medicine students travelled to the Dominican Republic this past spring break — not to work on their tans, but to volunteer their growing skills to a community in need.

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USF Heart Institute gets $2 million from Hillsborough County

Tampa Bay Times

“I think you’ll see this be an economic engine,” said Dr. Les Miller, chairman of the department of cardiovascular sciences at USF Health.

County, state kick in $8.9M for USF Health Heart Institute
Tampa Bay Business Journal (Blog)
USF Health has committed nearly $25 million in resources for genomics-based personalized medicine, including funding of research equipment and facilities, and recruited two physicians: Dr. Leslie Miller, chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, and Dr. Steve Liggett, a researcher who will become director of the Personalized Medicine Institute.

Robins RX State, County Help for USF Health Heart Institute
The Ledger (Blog)
“USF Health will be able to partner with the best industry and academic partners throughout the world to develop these new personalized and genetic approaches to health,” said Dr. Stephen K. Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine.

USF Heart Institute picks up another $2 million

WUSF

“We believe that the technology developed here will herald a new day and that USF Health will be able to partner with the best industry and academic partners throughout the world to develop these new personalized and genetic approaches to health,” according to Dr. Stephen K. Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine.

USF Lands $8.9M for Heart Research Center with Genomics Focus

Genome Wed Daily News

The University of South Florida has reeled in $8.9 million in new state and local support to fund the creation of the USF Heart Health Institute, a center that will focus on using genomics and personalized medicine approaches in cardiovascular care.

New therapy helps prevent PTSD for traumatized troops
The Tampa Tribune
Finding funding to do that has become a mission for Carrie Elk, the USF College of Nursing’s military liaison. She and principal investigator Kevin Kip are studying the therapy, which uses eye movements to help patients replace traumatic memories with more pleasant ones

Industry-Sponsored Studies More Likely To Generate Positive Results
Clinical Oncology News
Using three metrics to assess treatment success in clinical trials, Dr. Djulbegovic, of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Health Outcomes Research, University of South Florida and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, and colleagues found that new treatments are favored over standard treatments in industry-sponsored trials in comparison with trials funded by the public funder for each metric used.

Put Children’s Board funding policy under microscope
The Tampa Tribune
I have had the good fortune to have the assistance of the University of South Florida Pediatrics programs HOT DOCS and Parent Child Interaction Therapy, which have helped our family deal with our young children’s behavior.

Two new Studies Suggest Immune System Dysfunction Plays Role in Autism
EmaxHealth
Using a mouse model, researchers at the University of South Florida are studying the link between amyloid precursor protein (APP) and aberrations in the immune system.

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For the week of April 2, 2012 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world

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CAMLS grand opening on WFTS – ABC Action News

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Future of surgery in operation today

Tampa Tribune (editorial)

Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine, says CAMLS already has gotten the attention of CEOs around the country. “We’re looked at now as the place where tomorrow’s health care is happening,” Klasko says.

USF unveils CAMLS high-tech medical training center

Tampa Tribune

It’s a great leap past the “see one, do one, teach one” form of medical education, said Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine.

USF CAMLS’ opening draws national recognition

Tampa Bay Business Journal

The facility also represents a revolution in health care, said Dr. Stephen Klasko, chief executive officer of USF Health and dean of the USF Morsani College of Medicine.

USF’s downtown training facility makes its debut

Bay News 9

“This is the first center in the country that’s partnered with people from around the world to look  at how we assess the technical and teamwork competence of physicians,” said USF Health CEO Dr. Stephen Klasko.

CAMLS grand opening brings prominent guests

The Oracle

CAMLS, which has been open since February, trains all levels of professions in the health field though simulations and teamwork building, said Laura Haubner, medical director of the Virtual Patient Care Center.

USF Health’s center for training and evaluating health professionals sets standards for quality care

PhysOrg.com

“CAMLS will lead the way to a transformation of how health professionals are trained and assessed across America,” said Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the USF Morsani College of Medicine.

Otto: No brass knuckles? No axes?

Tampa Tribune (column)

Finally, it’s hard to quantify the importance of today’s grand opening of USF Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation. The $38 million, 90,000-square-foot center is said to be a world-class facility for simulation training.

Future of surgery in operation today
The Tampa Tribune
The University of South Florida Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation will bring the city, in the mayor’s words, “exactly the kind of jobs we want.”

Transforming Healthcare

USF Magazine

“CAMLS marks an important new chapter not just for USF Health and the Tampa Bay community, but also for how health education and evaluation are performed across America,” says Dr. Stephen Klasko, dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and CEO of USF Health.

Simbionix sponsors CAMLS fellowship

Tampa Bay Business Journal

Simbionix has sponsored the first fellowship at the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation.

First CAMLS fellowship sponsored by simulation partner Simbionix
PhysOrg.com
“We could not be more excited about the growing relationship with Simbionix and CAMLS,” said Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine.

Millions could lose benefits if health care law is struck down
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

The insurance mandate was designed to spread out the costs of health care more broadly, so if that is struck, more expensive provisions likely will be too, said Jay Wolfson, associate vice president for health law, policy and safety at the University of South Florida.

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn will speak at State of the City today
ABC Action News
He’s optimistic about the University of South Florida’s new down town Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, (CAMLS) that’s being built for $38 million

EMS’ innovative simulation technology advances education at University of South Florida’s New Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS)

GTdownload.com

Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine said at the ceremony, “Welcome to the revolution. We’re going to transform healthcare … CAMLS will become a brand identity built around quality and safety, not just in this country but around the world.”

Studies from University of South Florida School of Medicine Further Understanding of Biotechnology

NewsRX

These new analogues represent the first nM-affinity noncovalent inhibitors of a class A ß-lactamase,” wrote D.A. Nichols and colleagues, University of South Florida School of Medicine.

Allscripts introduces iPad application for EHR’s

KXXV-TV

“If we want to be paperless, and we do, we need to have something that’s quick and easy,” said Chantal Guidi, R.N., a nurse at USF Health in Tampa, Florida.

Brian Development – Pre-Birth Brain Growth Problems Linked to Autism

Star Global Tribune

To assist in this task, the researchers used a computerized tissue analysis system developed by co-investigator and NIMH grantee Peter Mouton, Ph.D., of the University of South Florida, Tampa, and colleagues.

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USF CAMLS Grand Opening Program on CTTV (City of Tampa Television)
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CAMLS grand opening on WFTS – ABC Action News
http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/2012/Ch28_6pm_630pm_CAMLS.asx

USF hopes Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulations will have global reach
WTSP 10 News
USF says the $38 million Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation is the largest of its kind, with 90,000 square feet under one roof.
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USF Hopes Surgery Center Will Have Global Reach
The Ledger (Featured in more than 81 news outlets including: The Miami Herald, WTSP 10 News, and WDTN)
The new $38 million Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Center, which covers a half block in downtown Tampa, will certainly benefit USF med students, but it’s also expected to draw around 30,000 health professionals from around the world every year to hone their surgical skills.

USF hopes surgery center will have global reach 
Associated Press
Medical simulators for training doctors are not new, but University of South Florida officials say they’ve built the largest dedicated simulation facility under one roof.

Simulator Hits New Medical Training High
MedPage Today
A new $38-million education and simulation training center at the University of South Florida in Tampa is “the teaching center of the future,” the university’s cardiology chair told MedPage Today in this exclusive video interview.

Future of surgery in operation today
Tampa Tribune (editorial)
Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine, says CAMLS already has gotten the attention of CEOs around the country. “We’re looked at now as the place where tomorrow’s health care is happening,” Klasko says.

USF unveils CAMLS high-tech medical training center
Tampa Tribune
It’s a great leap past the “see one, do one, teach one” form of medical education, said Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine.

USF CAMLS’ opening draws national recognition
Tampa Bay Business Journal
The facility also represents a revolution in health care, said Dr. Stephen Klasko, chief executive officer of USF Health and dean of the USF Morsani College of Medicine.

USF’s downtown training facility makes its debut
Bay News 9
“This is the first center in the country that’s partnered with people from around the world to look  at how we assess the technical and teamwork competence of physicians,” said USF Health CEO Dr. Stephen Klasko.

CAMLS grand opening brings prominent guests
The Oracle
CAMLS, which has been open since February, trains all levels of professions in the health field though simulations and teamwork building, said Laura Haubner, medical director of the Virtual Patient Care Center.

USF Health’s center for training and evaluating health professionals sets standards for quality care
PhysOrg.com
“CAMLS will lead the way to a transformation of how health professionals are trained and assessed across America,” said Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the USF Morsani College of Medicine.

Otto: No brass knuckles? No axes?
Tampa Tribune (column)
Finally, it’s hard to quantify the importance of today’s grand opening of USF Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation. The $38 million, 90,000-square-foot center is said to be a world-class facility for simulation training.

Future of surgery in operation today
The Tampa Tribune
The University of South Florida Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation will bring the city, in the mayor’s words, “exactly the kind of jobs we want.”

Transforming Healthcare
USF Magazine
“CAMLS marks an important new chapter not just for USF Health and the Tampa Bay community, but also for how health education and evaluation are performed across America,” says Dr. Stephen Klasko, dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and CEO of USF Health.
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University of South Florida takes the wraps off CAMLS
Tampa Bay Business Journal
University of South Floridaofficials showed off the Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation to about 100 invited guests Wednesday night.

 USF’s CAMLS hosts women’s healthcare forum
ABC Action News
“We’re looking at what’s different for caring for women. Then we’re going to simulate that in the virtual patient care center, so people from around the country and even the world, will be able to use best practices in how women are handled,” said Dr. Stephen Klasko, USF Dean of the Morsani College of Medicine.

USF offers surgeons a way to study by smartphone
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
At the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning & Simulation, leading surgeons provide cutting-edge, hands-on training for advanced surgical procedures — robotic, computer-assisted, and image-guided — in a “virtual hospital.”

USF’s new downtown Tampa medical simulation center is opening for business
Tampa Bay Times
All this, well before the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, or CAMLS, even opened its doors.

USF’s unique medical training center
WTVT
“This facility allows training of health-care professionals in a real-life learning lab. Everything looks like what you would see in a state-of-the-art facility,” explains Dr. Deborah Sutherland, CAMLS CEO.

USF learning lab opens
The Tampa Tribune
The Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, or CAMLS, looks a lot like a modern hospital: from a bevy of examination rooms to a pharmacy to 39 surgical stations.

CAMLS offers high-tech medical training
The Oracle
CAMLS is built to an “unprecedented scale,” as it encompasses a city block facing Franklin Street in downtown Tampa, and provides students, heath professionals and health staff a training and research center limited “only by (one’s) imagination,” said Dr. John Armstrong, a trauma surgeon and CAMLS chief medical officer.

A future of seamless patient care takes shape in Tampa
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
“Health care has been a single-person sport,” said Stephen Klasko, dean of the College of Medicine. “Now we’re going from golf or tennis to football.”

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USF’s unique medical training center

WTVT- Fox News Tampa Bay
“This facility allows training of health-care professionals in a real-life learning lab. Everything looks like what you would see in a state-of-the-art facility,” explains Dr. Deborah Sutherland, CAMLS CEO.

USF Health CAMLS Prepares for Launch

WUSF

USF Health will formally open its new Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) facility at the end of March, but reporters were able to get a look inside this week.

Drs. Klasko, Sutherland, Armstrong and Haubner discuss CAMLS on WUSF’s University Beat

http://www.wusf.usf.edu/radio/program/university_beat/episode/2012-03/usf_health_camls

Dr. Deborah Sutherland talks about CAMLS on CTTV’s Spotlight Tampa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo_4dxTIYtU

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USF’s new downtown Tampa medical simulation center is opening for business
Tampa Bay Times
All this, well before the University of South Florida’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, or CAMLS, even opened its doors.

USF learning lab opens
The Tampa Tribune
The Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, or CAMLS, looks a lot like a modern hospital: from a bevy of examination rooms to a pharmacy to 39 surgical stations.

A future of seamless patient care takes shape in Tampa

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

“Health care has been a single-person sport,” said Stephen Klasko, dean of the College of Medicine. “Now we’re going from golf or tennis to football.”

CAMLS by the numbers: USF in downtown Tampa

83 Degrees Media

USF Health’s CAMLS, the new Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, plans a grand opening ceremony with academic and community dignitaries on Friday, March 30, in downtown Tampa

CAMLS provides eating space, quenches thirst for knowledge
Tampa Bay Business Journal
The dining facility can accommodate any kind of meal from sandwich lunches to gourmet five-course dinners, said Dr. Deborah Sutherland, CEO of CAMLS.

Downtown surgery center heralds high-tech job growth
The Tampa Tribune
“This is the beginning of a different model of health care” focused on reducing health care mistakes, which cost taxpayers billions of dollars, said USF Health CEO Stephen Klasko.

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For the week of March 19, 2012 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world

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Truth Test: Medicare political claims
WZVN-TV

The goal is to try to contain that rate of increase.” – Dr. Jay Wolfson, Professor, Public Health and Medicine, USF

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With ALS, mentor to USF medical residents is now a patient
Tampa Bay Times
Ten years ago, when Dr. Michael Flannery became director of the internal medicine residency program at the University of South Florida’s medical school, he made a commitment. Each day, he would say a rosary.

Future doctors at USF all hope for perfect match
Tampa Bay Times
One by one, these “Match Day” participants were handed envelopes by Steven Specter, associate dean of student affairs at USF’s Morsani College of Medicine at the Tampa event.

SD researchers hope sage can help fight malaria
New England Cable News (Featured in more than 207 news outlets including: Deseret News, Coshocton Tribune, WFTV and WOKV )
Dixson recruited Dennis Kyle, a University of South Florida professor who specializes in malaria research, to help the Black Hills State team grow the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

Audiences gently embrace Glen Campbell’s ‘Goodbye Tour’
Tampa Bay Times
Dr. Amanda G. Smith supports the Goodbye Tour.  Smith, the medical director of the University of South Florida Health Alzheimer’s Center, says guitar expertise like Campbell’s is an “overlearned” skill. He can still pick like a man on fire because the “overlearned” is stored in a different part of the brain. In other words, Alzheimer’s hasn’t found it yet.

Immediate skull reconstruction aggravates brain damage in TGI model
News-Medical.Net

The study was published March 16, 2012 in the online journal PloS ONE. While further investigation is needed, the findings have implications for the acute treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI), considered the signature wound of soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the study’s principal investigator Cesar Borlongan, PhD, professor and vice chair of research at the USF Health Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair. “Finding a safe and effective cranioplasty regimen will require determining the optimal period of time when we let the brain repair itself and balancing that with when to best introduce a regimen of surgical skull repair and other potential therapies,” said co-author Harry van Loveren, MD, the David W. Cahill endowed professor and chair of the USF Health Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair.

With tai chi, seniors cope with Parkinson’s
Tampa Bay Times
Sponsored by the University of South Florida’s Movement Disorder Center and the National Parkinson Foundation, it is geared to help people with the disease, a disorder of the nervous system that reduces muscular control.

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For the week of March 12, 2012 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world

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Dr. Stephen Klasko discusses the new partnership with Florida Hospital on WTVT – FOX 13

http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/20120312_WTVT_peppinheart.asx

USF Health partners with Florida Hospital in four key specialties
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Florida Hospital and USF Health have formed a strategic alliance, combining Adventist Health System’s innovative approach to patient-centered care with the University of South Florida’s leading research, to deliver cutting-edge medical therapies in hospital and outpatient settings.

Breast cancer patients needed for MINT
WTSP 10 News
“It’s no harm to them. It can only benefit, maybe not them, but for future patients. It doesn’t take anything extra on their part. We already take that tumor sample and sends it to the company that runs the gene,” USF Clinical Research Coordinator Nicole Howard said.

Red light cameras may get green light
WTNH-TV
“Tend to brake a lot sooner than they need to, even if they can safely cross the intersection and cars following them that don’t have the same behavior, tend to then run into those cars that are slamming on their brakes,” said John Large, University of South Florida.

Truth Test: 60 Plus Association claims
WZVN-TV
“It’s true at one level, but the way it is presented implies that it is going to adversely [impact] the care and services that people are going to get today, when in fact, much of the care and services will get today are unnecessary, excessively priced and in some cases dangerous,” says Dr. Jay Wolfson.

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USF Health and Florida Hospital announce new research and patient care collaborations

Tampa Bay Times

Stephen Klasko, an obstetrician who is chief executive officer of USF Health and dean of USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, called the partnership “the longest gestation and longest birth I’ve ever been through.”

USF Health, Florida Hospital partner on four medical specialties
Tampa Bay Business Journal

Patients will have greater access to physicians and scientific discoveries from USF Health, said Dr. Stephen Klasko, chief executive of USF Health and dean of USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.

Adventist partnership raises USF’s medical profile

Tampa Tribune

Stephen Klasko, dean of the USF College of Medicine and CEO of USF Health, said the partnerships defy traditional, political alliances. But USF’s success depends on creative private partnerships and independent ventures, he said.

Florida Hospital invests $14 million in partnership with USF Health

Orlando Business Journal

Florida Hospital and USF Health are forming a partnership in which Florida Hospital will invest $14 million in four key specialty areas to translate medical research into cutting-edge patient treatments in Tampa Bay.

Florida Hospital announces partnership with USF Health

Modern Healthcare

Florida Hospital, part of the Adventist Health System, has partnered with USF Health to offer research-driven treatment programs at four of its Tampa Bay area hospitals.

USF Health + Florida Hospital = 2 providers, 3 counties, 4 specialties

WUSF

“It’s the best of healthcare from a futuristic, entrepreneurial and academic point of view.” That’s how USF Health CEO Dr. Stephen Klasko describes an agreement between his organization and Florida Hospital—an arrangement that puts university medical research into practice in Florida Hospital locations around the Bay area.

‘The health-care solution county’
The Tampa Tribune
Stephen K. Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine, sees the project as a major step in making Hillsborough County the “health-care solution county.”

CAMLS by the numbers: USF in downtown Tampa

83 Degrees Media

USF Health’s CAMLS, the new Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, plans a grand opening ceremony with academic and community dignitaries on Friday, March 30, in downtown Tampa

CAMLS provides eating space, quenches thirst for knowledge
Tampa Bay Business Journal
The dining facility can accommodate any kind of meal from sandwich lunches to gourmet five-course dinners, said Dr. Deborah Sutherland, CEO of CAMLS.

USF Health opening new high-tech learning center
Florida Courier
The University of South Florida Health’s new Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), a first-of-its-kind center that opens this month, is on a fast track to becoming a national model for transforming the education, training and assessment of health professionals.

USF College of Pharmacy unique from the very start

Student Pharmacist (Magazine) – page 24

The USF College of Pharmacy was established in 2007. Founding Dean Kevin B. Sneed, PharmD, set out to build a unique and innovative program.

Family Doctors of Belleview joins forces with Villages Health
The Villages Daily Sun
According to Dr. Kira Zwygart, chair of USF Health’s Department of Family Medicine, “The opportunity for USF Health to help recruit and support primary care doctors in The Villages Health is very exciting.

Red light cameras debated in Hartford
The News-Times
John Large, a University of South Florida School of Public Health professor, spoke about an analysis he and two other academics completed in 2005 that found studies reporting a reduction in accidents due to red light cameras used flawed methodologies and invalid data comparisons to reach their conclusions.

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For the week of March 5, 2012 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world

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Drs. Todd Wills and David Solomon discuss new strain of flu found in bats on Fox 13

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/health/doctor_jo/new-strain-of-flu-found-in-bats-03062012

Dr. Kevin Sneed talks about USF pharmacy school’s $6M budget on ABC Action News
http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_tampa/usfs-pharmacy-school-6m-budget-spared

Drs. Klasko, Sutherland, Armstrong and Haubner discuss CAMLS on WUSF’s University Beat

http://www.wusf.usf.edu/radio/program/university_beat/episode/2012-03/usf_health_camls

Dr. Deborah Sutherland talks about CAMLS on CTTV’s Spotlight Tampa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo_4dxTIYtU

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Massive medical training facility opens in Florida
Health Imaging
The University of South Florida (USF) has opened a $38 million, 90,000-square-foot center in downtown Tampa for training doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

USF heart institute may get $2 million from Hillsborough
The Tampa Tribune
Dr. Stephen Klasko, chief executive officer of USF Health, also touted the economic development aspects of the project. Klasko, a physician who also has a master’s degree in business administration, said he is passionate about “health care transformation that leads to economic benefits.”

USF pitches for genetic research
The Ledger

By studying large groups of patients, “we can begin to screen and treat people younger and earlier in their disease to try to head off their (disease’s) progression,” said Dr. Les Miller, chair of cardiovascular sciences at USF.

Medicare cracks down on power wheelchair claim fraud, but the bigger danger may be to health
Tampa Bay Times
Dr. William Quillen, who directs the University of South Florida’s school of physical therapy and rehabilitation science, agrees that some people really do need these devices.

What the debate on women’s health is overlooking
HealthyState.org
And that can cause people to miss the point, said Dr. Catherine Lynch, an ob-gyn and associate vice president for women’s health at University of South Florida’s medical school.  “What I think people are missing in the political debate is the other side of the coin – the health benefits,” said Dr. Hamisu Salihu, a University of South Florida professor.

Making exercise fun and cool for at-risk teen moms
Health Behavior News Service
“Social marketing is the absolute perfect way to get young people to adopt healthy behaviors because it focuses on what young people want, what they need, and what they’re concerned about,” said Carol Bryant, Ph.D., an expert in social marketing from the University of South Florida.

Could retiring doctors leave state in a bind?
The Gainesville Sun
Dr. Robert Brooks, a professor of health policy management at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, has written on the looming shortages in Florida’s physician workforce.

Analysis finds bioavailability of IgG is consistent, regardless of formulation
Pharmaceutical Processing (Featured in more than 67 news outlets including: Yahoo! Finance, WKRN-TV, MedIndia and Clinical Trials News Digest)
“Maintaining a consistent level of IgG in the blood is important for patients with primary immunodeficiencies in order to prevent infections,” said John W. Sleasman, MD, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of South Florida.

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