Historic Decision
ABC Action News – June 28, 2012
Dr. Jay Wolfson …”private insurance companies are already viewing this as a tremendous business opportunity…”

FAQs about health care law ruling
WTVT – June 29, 2012
“It affords her the opportunity to buy in to a health insurance pool like a large company,” explained USF Health’s Jay Wolfson.

USF public health professor comments on affordable care act
Ch. 8 WFLA-TV – June 28, 2012
… USF College of Public Health, Dr. Jay Wolfson says the affordable health care act will also help local hospitals because people who are uncovered and uninsured still get health care. 

Local hospital partners with FL university for futuristic medical education program
69 News WFMZ-TV – June 28, 2012
… talking about a unique partnership that’s now underway between The University of South Florida’s College of Medicine and Lehigh Valley Health Network.

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Tampa Bay health care providers see challenges ahead with reform law
Tampa Bay Times – June 30, 2012
“You’re going to have your kid with an earache in the emergency room because he can’t get in to see his pediatrician or family practice doctor,” said Dr. Stephen Klasko, dean of the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida.

Supreme Court ruling could bring relief for many Floridians, uncertainty for others
Tampa Bay Times – June 29, 2012
“It creates a bona fide safety net that we didn’t have before,” said Jay Wolfson, a health policy expert at the University of South Florida.

Impact of health care ruling felt from D.C. to Tampa
The Tampa Tribune - June 29, 2012
The individual mandate is by far the least popular part of the law, said Jay Wolfson, associate vice president of health law, policy and safety at the University of South Florida.
“It’s putting more people on a train speeding forward with uncontrolled costs, and this will not slow it down,” said Bob Brooks, a former director of the Florida Department of Health…. also holds appointments with USF Health. 

Brain Injury-Skull Reconstruction Blamed for Brain Damage
Star Global Tribune – June 29, 2012
Immediate skull reconstruction following trauma that penetrates or creates an indentation in the skull can aggravate brain damage inflicted by the initial injury, a study by a University of South Florida research team reports.

Health Care Law Expert Talks Supreme Court Decision and Florida
WUSF News – June 28, 2012 
Dr. Jay Wolfson, a health care law expert with the University of South Florida and Stetson University talks about the Supreme Court’s decision and the effect it will have on Floridians.

Health care ruling: What they said
Sarasota Herald-Tribune – June 28, 2012
Jay Wolfson, a public health professor and policy expert at the University of South Florida said that while the ruling will mean many more Americans….

Insurers, hospitals helped by high court ruling but expert expects challenges
Tampa Bay Business Journal  - June 28, 2012
A USF Health professor said Florida lawmakers and elected officials likely will look for ways to mount additional challenges to health care reform…

USF Health Professor Comments on Supreme Court Healthcare Law Decision
WFLA Radio – June 28, 2012
… USF health care expert Doctor Jay Wolfson called the Supreme Court healthcare ruling extraordinary declaring that the mandate to ensure every American has health coverage is…

People in the News
GenomeWeb Daily News – June 29, 2012
The University of South Florida has named Stephen Liggett its new vice dean for personalized medicine and genomics…

Trauma Time
Gulf Coast Business Review – June 29, 2012
…the hospital, in conjunction with HCA, signed a six-year agreement to share staffing and clinical expertise with Tampa-based USF Health.

Big challenge for the new state surgeon general 
Tampa Bay Times - June 28, 2012
(Also appeared in The Miami Herald)
Most recently, he served as the chief medical officer of the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation…

More Cancers Associated with HPV?
dailyRx – June 28, 2012
… findings of research carried out by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg…

Healthcare Law Expert Breaks Down “Decision of the Century”
WUSF News - June 27, 2012
Jay Wolfson is an expert in healthcare law at the University of South Florida and Stetson University. 

American Well Partners with USF Health to Bring Telehealth to Senior Community
Financial Technology -  June 27, 2012
American Well has announced a partnership with USF Health at the University of South Florida to increase access to primary and specialty care to the residents of The Villages, an over-55 residential community in the U.S.

FDA approves new combination vaccine that protects children against two bacterial diseases
ABC Action News - June 27, 2012
Is that safe? And what about side effects? Doctor John McCormick is the Chief of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at USF

USF Health names Liggett to head personalized medicine initiative
Tampa Bay Business Journal - June 26, 2012
Dr. Stephen Liggett was named director of the USF Health Personalized Medicine Institute, an interdisciplinary program that will drive research needed to….. 

New Treatment Associated With Improved Cognition In Cancer, Alzheimer’s Patients
mediLexicon - June 26, 2012
The findings by researchers at the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute and Moffitt Cancer Center are reported online in Brain Disorders & Therapy.

Protect yourself: Flood waters can be hazardous to your health
Tampa Bay Times - June 25, 2012
…Sinnott is the director of infectious diseases at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and director of epidemiology at Tampa General Hospital.

New USF therapy may ease PTSD
The Tampa Tribune – June 25, 2012
…said one of the researchers, Carrie Elk, a psychologist and military liaison for the USF College of Nursing, which conducted the initial therapy studies

Florida Hospital Zephyrhills, USF launch neuroscience institute
Tampa Bay Times – June 24, 2012
… new partnership between the University of South Florida and the hospital’s parent company, Adventist Health System, has given birth to the Neuroscience Institute.

Extended wear contact lenses pose safety risks
The Oracle – June 24, 2012
Dr. Charles Slonim, a USF clinical professor and ophthalmologist, said college students are more likely to make these types of errors due to their tight budgets and unwillingness to throw out items that “still work.” 

USF Health Renews, Expands at University Professional Center in Tampa 
Maddux News Wire – June 24, 2012
…University of South Florida Health’s lease of more than 15,000 square feet at University Professional Center, a 97,875-square-foot medical office building in Tampa.

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USF drug trial offers hope to Angelman Syndrome sufferers
Bay News 9 - June 16, 2012
…Dr. Edwin Weeber of the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute is the principal investigator…

 
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National leader in personalized medicine heads new institute at USF Health
Tampa Bay Times – June 23, 2012
That’s the focus of Dr. Stephen Liggett, one of the newest additions to the University of South Florida’s Morsani College of Medicine.

Tai Chi makes your brain bigger and improves memory
The Telegraph – June 22, 2012
…Dr James Mortimer, of the University of South Florida, said: “If this is shown, then it would provide strong support to the concept of ‘use it or lose it’…

Tai Chi increases brain size and improves memory in elderly
Yahoo! News (Featured in more than 108 news outlets including: Florida Statesman, I4U News and China National News) – June 20, 2012
…In a new study, scientists from the University of South Florida and Fudan University in Shanghai found increases in brain volume…

Environmentalists voice concern over coal ash amendment
Creative Loafing - June 21, 2012
“We just need to be thinking smarter on this” said Dr. Lynn Ringenberg, emeritus professor of pediatrics at USF…

Med students learn leadership
The Tampa Tribune -  June 18, 2012
…A University of South Florida medical school program highlighting leadership, empathy and business…

The case for empathy training
AMN Healthcare – June 18, 2012
…With Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, USF developed a medical school that considers applicants’ emotional intelligence and social awareness, including empathy.

USF Diabetes Center Aims To Root Out Diabetes
French Tribune – June 19, 2012
…there has been opening of the USF Diabetes Center on the 5th floor of the university’s Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare last year.

USF Diabetes Center Targets Type 1 In Families
83 Degrees – June 19, 2012
… Just as she came here, the University of South Florida was in the process of putting together a world-class center for diabetes that would give families…

Sacramento is fast becoming a hub of metabolic medicine
Examiner.com – June 20, 2012
The primary university for certifying physicians in metabolic medicine, however is the University of South Florida’s College of Medicine…

Obesity increases heartburn and GERD
dailyRx – June 20, 2012
Dr. Joel Richter, director of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the University of South Florida… studies and treats esophageal diseases, and has examined the connection between GERD and obesity.

Stress, insomnia and allergies, not food, make you fat!
Pakistan News Service – June 20, 2012
The co-director of the Metabolic and Nutritional Program at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Dr Smith said in her new book that for every extra…

First, make no mistakes
Creative Loafing – June 16, 2012
Downtown’s new simulation center (USF Health CAMLS) uses high-tech training to reduce the margin of doctor error… 

Protecting children by preventing falls
American Nurse Today – June 2012
Arthur R. Williams is Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa. Both authors…

Lab studying new ways to fight infection
Sarasota Herald-Tribune  – June 16, 2012
“This whole concept that the human body is really an ecosystem, that you are actually walking around with all these cells that are not human — that’s a hard concept to wrap your head around,” says Robert Deschenes, who chairs the department of molecular medicine at the University of South Florida’s College of Medicine.

Advanced Healthcare awakens to opportunity in sleep apnea    
Tampa Bay Business Journal – June 15, 2012
It (radiofrequency ablation) is a procedure that has been around for a while, and typically is done in an operating room setting because post-surgery care is needed for more severe cases, said Dr. Tapan Padhya… co-director of the USF ENT Sleep and Snoring Clinic.   

Alzheimer’s Researchers Coming to Memory Garden
The Post-Journal – June 22, 2012
…Dr. David Morgan, PhD, CEO of the University of South Florida Health Byrd Alzheimer Institute, and Dr. Todd E. Golde MD PhD., director of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease…

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USF study: Coffee lowers risk of  Alzheimer’s in older adults
 ABC Action News – June 6, 2012
…It’s not protection but the USF and University of Miami study suggests drinking coffee can reduce your risk…

‘One in Forty Million’ tells story of arriving at the ER uninsured and the nightmare that followed
 ABC Action News – June 6, 2012
…Jay Wolfson, a professor at USF Health, agrees that catastrophic insurance is a good safety net if you can afford it…

Contact lenses causing problems
MyFox Tampa Bay WTVT - June 1, 2012
…you’re not aware of it until that last day, and that last days too late,” says Dr. Chuck Slonim is a Board Certified Ophthalmologist with USF…

 
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Caffeine in Coffee Linked With Delayed Alzheimer’s Onset
Huffington Post – June 7, 2012
Researchers from the University of South Florida and University of Miami have found that higher caffeine consumption — a big source being coffee — is linked with a delayed onset of Alzheimer’s disease…

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Sheryl Crow’s brain tumor can cause memory problems, but is easily treated
Tampa Bay Times – June 7, 2012
…Dr. Clifton Gooch, professor and chair of neurology at the University of South Florida, said such tumors…

Rebuilding Brains
The Tampa Tribune – June 6, 2012
USF researcher Cesar Borlongan and his colleagues are experimenting with the use of hyperbaric chambers.

Backpacks with outdoor toys encourage kids to stay active this summer
Tampa Bay Times – June 8, 2012
USF public health student Natasha Dowell shows students what’s in the backpacks they’re about to receive…

USF Physicians Group to restructure faculty salaries
The Oracle – June 7, 2012
Against a backdrop of national health care reform, USF is looking to save about $5 million by restructuring faculty pay to reflect the number of patients seen.
 
Nursing schools, organizations pledge to help veterans and their families
Nurse.com – June 4, 2012
…Therapy and encouraged him to enroll in a study through the University of South Florida’s College of Nursing in Tampa…

Bugged? Survive the ferocious pesky pests with preparation and prevention
Naples Daily News – June 5, 2012
…Brett E. Stanaland, M.D., prescribed an ongoing treatment for him. Dr. Stanaland is clinical associate professor of medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine…

Stem cells may help LaBelle toddler hear
The News-Press – June 4, 2012
…according to a 2008 published report in the University of South Florida journal Cell Transplantation…

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Florida plastic surgeon sues his internet critics
ABC Action News
We asked Jay Wolfson of the University of South Florida’s Health department, who is a doctor and a lawyer, if these internet posters should be nervous.

Sickle Cell Trait

NATA News

USF Health has launched a new website created with funding from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Ethnic Diversity Advisory Committee to educate coaches, healthcare professionals, parents, and student-athletes on sickle cell trait and the prevention of sudden death.

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Can red wine ingredient ward off Alzheimer’s? USF researchers hope to find out

Tampa Bay Times

“Some of the best researchers in the field will be working on this study and we’re happy to be in their company,” said Dr. Amanda Smith, medical director of the Byrd Institute.

Study: Health, education are closely linked
The Tampa Tribune
This reflects a growing belief that the medical community alone can’t solve the nation’s health problems, said Adewale Troutman, executive director of public health practice and leadership at the University of South Florida.

BioAcousTech Of Tampa Wins $50K Prize, USF
83 Degrees
Phil Hipol and Stuart Hart, two researchers at USF Health, won the coveted Cade Museum Prize for inventing a device designed to detect sounds within the body that may indicate the presence of defects or disease.

Alzheimer’s caregiver offers ‘perspective’ as stand-in CEO

The Oracle

During her day at the Byrd Institute, Francine accompanied the center’s full-time CEO, Dave Morgan.

Gilded Care

TMC.net (Florida Trend Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)

Chappell, who heads an advertising and public relations company in Tampa, signed up for a one-day executive physical at the University of South Florida Health’s Monsour Executive Wellness Center.

Can’t Lose the Weight?

Natural Health

Why is it so hard? “Because it’s about a lot more than calories in and calories out,” says Pamela Wartian Smith, M.D., co-director of the master’s program in medical sciences at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and author of Why You Can’t Lose Weight (Square One Publishers).

Pain Doctor’s Troubles Prompt New Policy at USF
The Ledger

John Curran, senior executive associate dean for faculty and academic affairs, called USF’s experience with Dileo “a very embarrassing incident.”

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Local expert weighs in on new multi-tasking studies that suggest neither success nor failure
ABC Action News

But is that a good thing? We asked Michael Schoenberg, Chief of Neuropsychology at USF, to weigh in.

Seeing is believing: The evolution of the ultrasound
WTVT
University of South Florida Urologist Dr. Rafael Carrion specializes in sexual dysfunction, and says most men don’t realize ultrasound is an option

Big names book downtown Tampa’s biggest venues for 2012 RNC convention
ABC Action News
The Tampa Bay Host Committee says it’s in discussions with the University of South Florida to hold convention events at the downtown CAMLS location.

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Alzheimer’s cure in 2025

Bay News 9

Doctor David Morgan, with USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute in Tampa, says in 25 years working to try to find a cure, this is the most promising time.  He says he is convinced they will be able to prevent the disease by 2020.

Cade prize goes to Tampa company
The Gainesville Sun
In a presentation, Stuart Hart, chief medical officer, said BioAcousTech’s eCath device is based on the acoustic principles used by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s and ’60s to identify Russian submarines by their propellers while filtering out other ocean noises.

USF-Designed “Electronic Stethoscope” Wins Award
WUSF News
Phil Hipol, the engineering director at USF Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), and Dr. Stuart Hart, professor in USF Health’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, won the prize for their electronic catheter stethoscope, or “eCath.”

Marking progress against Parkinson’s
The Palm Beach Post

Isaacson and the Fox Foundation are currently partnered in a global study involving 24 geographic locations around the world. Five are in Europe, 18 in the United States, with Isaacson’s group and the University of South Florida in Tampa representing Florida.

Q&A: The details on donating a body to science
Tampa Bay Times
After that, I would like my body to be donated to University of South Florida School of Medicine to be used in any way for teaching purposes. Is it possible to donate my body, and how would I arrange this?

Drug reduce bone cancer damage but clinical guidance remains non-specific
Science Codex
Whether zoledronate is superior to any other bisphosphonate drug remains an open question,” said lead researcher Ambuj Kumar of the Center for Evidence Based Medicine and Health Outcomes Research at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida.

Menopause happens: Start hormone-replacement therapy?
The Republic
“So many women are affected,” said Dr. Barry Verkauf, director of the new Menopause Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa. “I’m a lot less quick to prescribe systemic estrogen like you get in a patch,” said Dr. Anna Parsons, director of image-based gynecology at USF Health at the University of South Florida.

Planting Seeds of Hope

ALS Quarterly Winter  

‘With the Association’s help and the hard work of our faculty and team, we’ve accomplished more in a year than most new ALS clinics accomplish in 1n five or ten years,” Dr. Gooch said.

Bisphosphonates Cut Skeletal Morbidity in Multiple Myeloma
Doctors Lounge
Rahul Mhaskar, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of South Florida in Tampa, and colleagues updated a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the role of bisphosphonates on OS, progression-free survival, and skeletal-related morbidity in multiple myeloma.

Reducing bone cancer with drugs: The debate
WIAT
Whether zoledronate is superior to any other bisphosphonate drug remains an open question,” lead researcher Ambuj Kumar of the Center for Evidence Based Medicine and Health Outcomes Research at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida was quoted as saying.

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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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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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At the Heart of Art on WTSP – Channel 10
http://usf.wtsp.com/news/arts-culture/117621-heart-art

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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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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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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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CAMLS grand opening on WFTS – ABC Action 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.
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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 Florida officials 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.”

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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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
YouTube

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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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

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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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The lost art of physical exams
WTVT – Fox 13

“Physicians don’t have as much time in their interactions with patients that they used to,” says Dr. Allesa English, with USF’s Medical School.

USF’s College of Pharmacy may lose half its budget
WTSP – 10 News

“That would totally decimate everything we’ve been able to accomplish,” says Dr. Kevin Sneed, Dean for the USF’s College of Pharmacy.

Beauty treatments and extreme reactions
WTVT – Fox 13
“We’ve had patients where their face looks like a pumpkin,” said Dr. Neal Fenske, a USF Health dermatologist.

Pollen count is unusually high, experts say
WTVT – Fox 13
“We’re about two weeks early in our season with the pollen count, and the pollen count is already very, very high,” explained USF Allergy Specialist Dr. Richard Lockey.

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USF Pharmacy dean: cuts would decimate program

Tampa Bay Times

If the school doesn’t get back that additional money, it could “totally decimate everything we’ve been able to accomplish,” said Kevin Sneed, dean of the program.

Proposed cuts would ‘decimate’ College of Pharmacy
The Oracle
Yet Pharmacy Dean Kevin Sneed said the $3 million budget is still highly debilitating.

Telemedicine: Pros, Cons and Advice for Would-Be-Patients

HealthyState.org

“If I have a real complicated case, I can often discuss it online with other physicians,” says Dr. Larry Glazerman, a University of South Florida OB/GYN. “That’s huge.”

Type 1 diabetes patients encouraged by medical advances
Tampa Bay Times
Dr. Henry Rodriguez, medical director of the USF Diabetes Center, said he is often asked by parents of young diabetics about islet cells and stem cells.

PTSD therapy at USF gets boost from unlikely source
The Tampa Tribune
The restaurateur is working with the USF College of Nursing’s military liaison, Carrie Elk, on finding additional funding for a treatment she and principal investigator Kevin Kip are studying called Accelerated Resolution Therapy.

USF College of Nursing makes key top 25 list
Tampa Bay Business Journal
The University of South Florida College of Nursing joined the ranks of the top 25 nursing schools nationwide receiving National Institutes of Health research funding.

USF College of Nursing makes key top 25 list

The Dallas Morning News

The University of South Florida College of Nursing joined the ranks of the top 25 nursing schools nationwide receiving National Institutes of Health research funding.

USF College of Nursing makes key top 25 list

India Times

The University of South Florida College of Nursing joined the ranks of the top 25 nursing schools nationwide receiving National Institutes of Health research funding.

USF College of Nursing makes key top 25 list

I4U News

The University of South Florida College of Nursing joined the ranks of the top 25 nursing schools nationwide receiving National Institutes of Health research funding.

Charter school students present research projects at USF Health Research Day
The Villages Daily Sun
Like her 16 fellow Villages Charter School students attending USF Health’s Research Day on Friday at the University of South Florida’s Marshall Student Center, she was tasked with presenting a science project of her own to a team of three judges. Baking-soda volcanoes, these projects were not.

Allscripts and MyCare Team launch integrated diabetes management solution
Healthcare Technology Online (Featured in more than 3 news outlets including: Yahoo! Finance and Diabetestreatment365.com)
“USF Diabetes Center is partnering with Allscripts and MyCareTeam to build a true and constant connection between our caregivers and our patients,” said Henry Rodriguez, clinical director of the USF Diabetes Center, who was recently appointed to the American Diabetes Association’s Board of Directors.

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Dr. Jamie Winderbaum Fernandez discusses post-partum depression on Fox 13

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Senate approves split

Tampa Bay Times

Instead of losing $78 million in funding, USF’s Tampa campus budget would be cut $45 million, with its other campuses each taking cuts of about $1 million to $2 million. And instead of losing $6 million for its pharmacy program, USF will receive $3 million.

Senate restores some of money cut to USF

Tampa Tribune

In addition, the new university plan would cost USF millions. It transfers USF Polytechnic’s funding to the new school, taking away $6 million that had been going to USF’s College of Pharmacy in Tampa.

Senate restores $47 million in funding for USF
The Ledger (Blog)
One amendment increased USF’s funding by $3 million to cover the cost of a pharmacy program, originally slated for the USF Polytechnic campus in Lakeland, that will remain in Tampa.

Health board has eye on grant money
The Tampa Tribune
Hillsborough’s existing plan could serve as a model for the nation because it reaches a severely underinsured population, said John Curran, advisory board chairman and associate vice president at University of South Florida Health.

Florida has a steep deficit of registered nurses
The Bradenton Herald
The University of South Florida’s College of Nursing in Tampa has established an intensive training experience for its student nurses with several hospitals, including Sarasota Memorial.

Smoking Cessation Drug Improves Patients’ Walking Ability Drug Discovery & Development
Drug Discovery & Development
“This is the first clinical trial in patients with ataxia showing that nicotinic acetycholine agonists improve symptoms associated with the ability to stand straight and walk,” says Theresa Zesiewicz, MD, professor of neurology and director of the USF Ataxia Research Center. Study co-author Lynn Wecker, PhD, a research professor at USF Health, is investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms mediating the effects of varenicline and other nicotinic agonists.

Allscripts and MyCareTeam Launch Integrated Diabetes Management Solution
The Bradenton Herald (Featured in more than 602 news outlets including: The Sacramento Bee, KWTV-DT, WFFF-TV and WXOW)
UMass Memorial Health Care, the clinical partner of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, was the first hospital to use the integrated system, and a second implementation is now underway at University of South Florida (USF) Diabetes Center in Tampa.

Doctors search for reason for ectopic pregnancy spike
Tampa Bay Times
“We were not expecting mortality from ectopic pregnancy to go up,” said Dr. William Sappenfield, director of the USF Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies, and co-author of the report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tobacco Smoke has the Power to Change
dailyRx
“IKBKE is a newly identified oconogene, a gene linked to cancer,” said study lead author Jin Q. Cheng, Ph.D., M.D., professor of oncology at the University of South Florida.

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Teaching compassion in medicine
WCSH6
“We want to make sure that these students exhibit not only the qualities that will make them outstanding physicians, outstanding clinicians, but also leaders,” explains Dr. Alicia Monroe, Vice Dean of Educational Affairs at USF’s College of Medicine.

Managing weight with medication
WTVT – Fox 13
University of South Florida’s Dr. Denise Edwards admits she’s not a fan of shots or pills. She believes patients are drawn to them out of frustration.

As Old Man Winter skips Florida, allergies kick in early
WTVT – Fox 13
“It’s already hit. We’re already having a vigorous allergic season,” explained Dr. Richard Lockey of the USF College of Medicine.

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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.

Rays’ Fuld shows heart as his legend grows

Fox Sports Florida

Late Friday afternoon, dozens upon dozens of parents and children arrived at Fuld’s charter sports camp, conducted in conjunction with Dr. Henry Rodriguez, medical director of the renowned USF Diabetes Center and with the support of USF Athletics and Florida Diabetes Camps run by Gary Cornwell.

‘Super Sam’ empowers youths
The Tampa Tribune
Diabetics who regularly balance their food intake and physical activity can remain at the top of their games, said Henry Rodriguez, medical director for the USF Diabetes Center.

Sam Fuld’s USF Diabetes Camp
YouTube
Rays Outfielder Sam Fuld teams up with other sports professionals and the University of South Florida to give kids with Type 1 Diabetes and their siblings a chance to get active

Some oxycodone sales are down in Florida, but the street trade still is brisk
Tampa Bay Times
Dr. Rafael Miguel, a pain physician and professor at the University of South Florida, said there are still enough pill mills to harm pain patients in other ways: They’re soaking up so much oxycodone that they’re making it harder for patients to obtain them legally.

The chocolate cake diet: Can dessert with breakfast really help you lose weight?
Tampa Bay Times
We ran this by Dr. Denise Edwards, director of the Healthy Weight Clinic at the University of South Florida. She said the study made sense because people often fail at very restrictive diets and engage in “emotional eating,” indulging in foods that give you pleasure.

Advances highlighted at local symposium on Alzheimer’s Disease
The Observer News
For example, David Morgan, PhD, chief executive of the University of South Florida Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, is to speak during the morning schedule about new research being conducted and its results, including the PET scan that now can detect very early signs and signals, she added.

Florida nursing education programs post big gains
Tampa Bay Business Journal
At University of South Florida , 210 graduates of the bachelor of science in nursing program took the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Licensure Examination in 2011, and 199 of the graduates, or 95 percent of them, passed the exam.

Pollen springs allergy surprise
The Tampa Tribune

“We are seeing this season two weeks early,” said Richard Lockey, director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

BHSU staff, students study Native medicinal plants to fight disease
Rapid City Journal

Dr. Dennis Kyle, a world-renowned expert on malaria at the University of South Florida’s School of Public Health, assisted the BHSU research team in culturing the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

Vital Trauma Center Now Open at Blake Medical Center
The Bradenton Times
The unit is connected with four other HCA Hospitals in Florida that are partnered with USF Health, a division of the University of South Florida to create a statewide trauma network to advance the study.

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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.

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Health care law defended
The Tampa Tribune
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited Tampa on Thursday, advocating the 2010 law to a health care-industry heavy audience at the University of South Florida’s new Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation.

Rays OF Sam Fuld Hosts Sports Camp for Diabetic Children

WUSF

The USF Diabetes Center is hosting the inaugural Sam Fuld Diabetes Sports camp Friday night and Saturday at USF’s Tampa campus. Young people with the disease will be coached in a variety of sports, including baseball and softball, football, soccer, basketball, tennis and cheerleading.

USF gets $1.6 million for brain research
Tampa Bay Business Journal

USF plans to work with the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration and private research entities to develop novel studies, ranging from drug discovery and preclinical work to clinical, social and behavioral trials, said Dr. Paul Sanberg, USF senior associate vice president for research and innovation and director of the USF Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair.

USF receives DOD grant for battlefield-related TBU research
News-Medical.Net
The University of South Florida (USF) has received a $1.57 million U.S. Department of Defense grant to conduct translational research on traumatic brain injury and other battlefield related injuries and diseases.

First of its kind head patch monitors brain blood flow and oxygen
Newswise
Researchers from the University of South Florida College of Medicine and the University of North Florida College of Medicine participated in the study, along with several college students who were participating in Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Research Scholar Program (CRISP).

USF wellness center taps Brownlee as medical director

Tampa Bay Business Journal

Dr. James Brownlee was named medical director of the Monsour Executive Wellness Center at USF Health.USF Health Latest from The Business Journals Stephen Klasko: Continues to practice at Tampa hospitalA sneak peak at USF’s next step in medical trainingUniversity of South Florida takes the wraps off CAMLS Follow this company   Brownlee joined the center after retiring as chair of the USF Department of Family Medicine.

Mark Hohmeister: Finally, there is some good news on Alzheimer’s
Tallahassee Democrat
Then I met Dave Morgan, a researcher and CEO of the University of South Florida Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute.

A closer look at a national Alzheimer’s plan proposal
Naples Daily News
“My promise is that we will have a means to prevent Alzheimer’s by 2020,” says David Morgan, PhD, CEO of the University of South Florida Health Byrd Alzheimer Institute. He believes that accomplishing the goal of prevention is more scientifically clear-cut than the goal of effective treatment.

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.”

Surgery for common heart valve condition in elderly is safe, restores longevity
Heartzine

Collaborators on the study were Eric D. Peterson, M.D.; Xia He, M.Sc.; J. Matthew Brennan, M.D.; Sean M. O’Brien, Ph.D.; and Rachel S. Dokholyan, M.P.H., all of the Duke Clinical Research Institute; Jeffrey P. Jacobs, M.D., of The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida, All Children’s Hospital, University of South Florida College of Medicine…

Tampa Bay senior living community offers new activities for people affected by Parkinson’s disease
PR NewsChannel

This class is underwritten by the University of South Florida’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder Clinic and is free to individuals affected by the disorder. Registration is required and interested individuals can call The Bonsai Holistic Spa at 727-518-6008.

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Synthetic drugs concern law enforcement, medical experts
WTSP 10 News

Dr. Glenn Whelan discusses synthetic marijuana with 10 News reporter Ashley Porter

I-Team: Patients sign away right to jury trial in malpractice cases
ABC Action News
USF professor and health law expert Dr. Jay Wolfson says he’s seen no evidence arbitration favors one side over the other.

Testing your fertility IQ
WNDU-TV
Celso Silva, MD, Director Center for Fertility Preservation USF College of medicine, explains how studies can help kill some of those myths, “I think we have no data to demonstrate that.”

Defining factors for infertility
KABC-TV
I think we have absolutely no data to demonstrate that,” said Dr. Celso Silva, director of the Center for Fertility Preservation, University of South Florida College of Medicine.

New treatment making life easier for OCD patients
WNDU-TV
Eric Storch, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, University Of South Florida, explains the procedure that helps the patients, “That’s one of the exciting parts of this. Is that, can we enhance the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy, with a very safe antibiotic.”

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First Lady: More Research on Veterans Medical Care
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And the University of South Florida is working with the VA and Department of Defense to create a Center for Veterans Reintegration — a research, treatment and education center for veterans and families.

First Lady gives shout-out to USF medical school

Tampa Bay Times

Dr. Stephen Klasko, dean of the USF Morsani College of Medicine, said the praise was especially “cool” considering the First Lady’s audience of about 80 medical school deans, including Harvard’s.

130 Medical Schools Join Forces With Military

OffTheBase.com

The University of South Florida where they are working with the Department of Defense and the VA to create a first-of-its-kind Center for Veterans Reintegration, which will mean a single, cohesive research, treatment, and education facility for veterans and families.

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.
Parents say acupuncture has alleviated boy’s ADHD
Tampa Bay Times
“More recently we’ve been using it for attention deficit disorder, allergies and asthma,” said Dr. Laura Weathers, a pediatrician and acupuncture practitioner at USF Health to whom Alex’s mother turned for help.

ACOs: The Latest Experiment in Health Care Delivery
General Surgery News

“This was an unprecedented law in the sense that the legislative body gave enormous power to the executive branch. That’s not the way it usually works,” said John Armstrong, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of South Florida in Tampa, who chairs the ACS political action committee (PAC).

Rays Sam Fuld to host diabetes sports camp at USF
Examiner.com
Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Sam Fuld, in partnership with the Rays, the University of South Florida Diabetes Center and USF Athletics, and Florida Diabetes Camps will host the Inaugural Sam Fuld Diabetes Sports Camp at USF on Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4.

Why Big Business, Obesity And Bad Science Has Helped To Create The Obesity Epidemic
Kamloops Personal Trainer (Blog)
This is a an important view on the root of the prevailing Obesity Epidemic in America by David Diamond, PhD, a brain expert in the Departments of Psychology, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology of the University of South Florida.

Morsani College of Medicine students raise money by showcasing talents
YouTube
Morsani College of Medicine students put on a talent show Jan. 7 to raise money for the B.R.I.D.G.E. Healthcare Clinic. It is a student-run free clinic that provides free healthcare the underprivileged area surrounding the University of South Florida.

USF researcher disputes Alzheimer’s as a disease
The Oracle Online
USF has been committed to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, with millions of dollars given or donated to the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute in the past year alone.

Student Health Services offers care to faculty, staff
The Oracle Online

Dr. Diane Straub, associate professor of pediatrics who oversees adolescent health at USF Health, said SHS was able to go forward with this plan because of the empty waiting rooms SHS sees in the morning hours.

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Thanks to a record gift, the USF College of Medicine is now known as the USF Morsani College of Medicine. University Beat on WUSF TV takes you to the formal announcement of the College’s new name and tells you what it means for USF Health’s future

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With New Year’s resolutions, small changes can mean big results

Huffington Post – Healthy Living

“Nothing in excess,” advised Barbara Hansen, a professor at the University of South Florida and director of its Obesity, Diabetes and Aging Research Center. “It’s trite.”

Hillsborough leaders sound off on their wishes for change in 2012

Tampa Bay Times

Innovative approach to medicine: Stephen Klasko, 58 CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine

At USF Health, we will open in 2012 in Tampa the world’s boldest health simulation center.

The 10 most intriguing people in Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Times

Dr. Stephen Klasko: Give the dean of the USF College of Medicine 15 minutes, and he will win you over with his vision for the college and for health care in America.

25 people to watch in Tampa Bay business

Tampa Bay Business Journal

Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and Dean of the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. In January 2010, he was named by Healthcare IT News as one of the 10 rising stars in health care information technology. Dr. John Armstrong, medical director, USF Health’s Center for Advanced Learning and Medical Simulation. Armstrong was a top surgeon at University of Florida’s Shands Hospital before he was lured to USF Health, where he also is director of trauma and disaster education.

Growing into the future

Tampa Tribune (editorial)

Among other exciting improvements, USF Health’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation nearing completion in downtown Tampa will soon be bringing in thousands of physicians for training.

Big year for health and medical news

Tampa Bay Times

The University of South Florida renamed its medical school as the Morsani College of Medicine, after philanthropists Frank and Carol Morsani made a $20 million donation.

Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation
Gulf Coast Business Review
The Center for Advanced Learning and Simulation, most often referred to as CAMLS, is set to open in February. The long-awaited debut of the 90,000-square-foot development is expected to generate $38 million in economic impact in its first year and create a hub for research in health science that will draw doctors in for years to come.

USF Health’s Miller: Genes at forefront of the future of personalized medicine
The Villages Daily Sun
The year 2011 is winding down, but USF Health’s Dr. Les Miller enabled Villages residents to step into the future with him to see what marvels await them in health care, thanks to their genes.

With New Year’s resolutions, small changes can mean big results
Tampa Bay Times
“Nothing in excess,” advised Barbara Hansen, a professor at the University of South Florida and director of its Obesity, Diabetes and Aging Research Center. “It’s trite.”

Morsani gift to USF Health ranks high among 2011 charitable donations

Tampa Bay Business Journal

$20 million gift by Frank and Carol Morsani to USF Health  was the largest health care charitable donation in Florida in 2011.

Defense: Partnership Funded

Tampa Bay Business Journal

The U.S. Department of Defense    Department of Defense Latest from The Business Journals provided a $1.59 million award for musculoskeletal research at the University of South Florida  University of South Florida  School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences. It funds Dr. John Mayer‘s, endowed chair in biomechanical and chiropractic research at the school, study of back pain and a study evaluating prosthetic feet for soldiers and veterans.

Sleep apnea linked to dementia

News Chief

“We’ve suspected that for a long time, but the problem has been linking hypoxemia to cognitive stress,” said Dr. W. McDowell Anderson, program director of the University of South Florida sleep medicine training program, and medical director of Tampa General’s Sleep Disorder Center.

Parkinson’s Disease: Diagnosis, Causes and Treatment
Parkinson’s Disease (Blog)
Dr. Juan Sanchez-Ramos is Professor of Neurology at the University of South Florida in Tampa where he holds the Helen Ellis Endowed Chair for Parkinson’s disease Research and is the Chair for this 5th Annual PRF Parkinson’s Disease Conference.

Gene therapy in children
Doktor Liliy Koval (Blog)

The examiner shows proof-of-principle that gene analysis with pedicel cells in a genetic scuffle counterpart this has strong potential,” added Paul Sanberg, a bows cell specialist who is cicerone of the University of South Florida Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair in Tampa.

Veterans Needed to Help Complete PTSD Study
WUSF-TV
Draper Laboratory researchers in Cambridge and at Tampa’s University of South Florida are nearing completion of a study that exams if physiological responses like heart rate, perspiration and respiration can be linked to a diagnose PTSD.

Here’s the skinny on omega-3 fatty acids

Sioux City Journal

“We know EPA and DHA benefit the heart,” said Jose Barboza, a pharmacist and assistant professor at the University of South Florida College of Pharmacy. “But the research on ALA isn’t as good. That’s not to say ALA isn’t important. Much more study is needed.”

Mouse study links autism, immune system changes

Psych Central

“Autism affects one in 110 children in the United States today,” said research team leader Jun Tan, M.D., Ph.D. “While there are reports of abnormal T-cell numbers and function in some persons affected with autism, no specific cause has been identified.

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USF to rename medical school after Frank and Carol Morsani donate

St. Petersburg Times
The University Of South Florida plans to rename its medical school today after philanthropists Frank and Carol Morsani, whose $20 million donation to construct a new college of medicine is the largest in USF‘s history.

From Morsanis, a giant gesture of generosity

St. Petersburg Times (editorial)

The University of South Florida announced that the couple donated $20 million toward the university’s medical school, which on Thursday was renamed the Morsani College of Medicine.

Morsani wants USF philanthropy to prompt more wealthy Floridians to give where they live

St. Petersburg Times (column)

And Morsani, along with wife Carol, both 80, are quietly pleased USF’s new Morsani College of Medicine will carry their entrepreneurial mandate to educate more rounded doctors trained to collaborate with nurses, pharmacists and, yes, even patients.

Morsanis give $20 million for new USF medical school

Tampa Tribune

The University of South Florida is receiving $20 million, the biggest single gift in its history, from Tampa philanthropists Frank and Carol Morsani to help build a new medical school bearing the couple’s name.  It “signals what I think is going to become a bonanza of philanthropy for USF Health,” said USF College of Medicine Dean Stephen Klasko.

Donor: Colleges need private help

The Tampa Tribune

USF accepted a $20 million gift Thursday from Frank and Carol Morsani. In return, the university renamed its medical school the Morsani College of Medicine.

The Morsani millions
Tampa Bay Online
The Tampa Tribune reported the Morsani family donated $20 million to the University of South Florida (“USF given $20 million,” front page, Dec. 8) to help build a new medical school.

USF College of Medicine Takes Name of $20 Million Donor

WUSF

The Morsani College of Medicine will advance the vision that university president Judy Genshaft and USF Health CEO Stephen Klasko have for the school’s medical program specifically and the teaching and practice of medicine in general.

Morsanis to USF Health: $37 million and new moniker

Tampa Bay Business Journal

“We believe it will bring in new companies and new ideas. We hope to have spin-offs,” Klasko said. “It’s exactly what Frank wanted to support. He has built his career around new ideas.”

Morsanis want $20M gift to USF Health to inspire others

Tampa Bay Business Journal

As a result of the gift, USF will build a new Morsani College of Medicine building located on the western edge of the USF campus, on the site of a former USF medical clinic.

In Education: Large Gifts for Duke, University of South Florida

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

In other education news, the University of South Florida’s medical school will be renamed for Frank and Carol Morsani in recognition of a $20-million donation, the St. Petersburg Times writes. The gift is the largest in the Tampa university’s history and brings the couple’s total giving to the institution to $43-million.

Florida Couple Gives $20 Million for Medical Building at University of South Florida
Philanthropy News Digest

The University of South Florida has announced a $20 million gift from local auto dealer Frank Morsani and his wife, Carol.

A historic moment: Morsanis donate $20 million to USF College of Medicine
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Frank and Carol Morsani made history when they donated $20 million to the USF Health College of Medicine — the biggest gift to the University of South Florida to date. The money will be used to help build a new educational facility for the college and to start the Stephen K. Klasko Institute for an Optimistic Future for Healthcare.

New Morsani College of Medicine Presentation

You Tube

The University of South Florida has renamed its medical college the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in honor of the philanthropic commitment of Frank and Carol Morsani.

University of South Florida receives $20 million donation for new medical college

ABC Action News

The University of South Florida is renaming its medical college in honor of a $20 million philanthropic commitment by Frank and Carol Morsani.

New name symbolizes future vision

health.usf.edu

A few minutes later, Dr. Stephen Klasko, dean of the new college and CEO of USF Health, choked up himself, joking that he needed to borrow Morsani’s water bottle. “Our vision for the Morsani College of Medicine could not be more clear or dramatic,” he said.

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USF to rename medical school after Frank and Carol Morsani donate

St. Petersburg Times
The University Of South Florida plans to rename its medical school today after philanthropists Frank and Carol Morsani, whose $20 million donation to construct a new college of medicine is the largest in USF‘s history.

Morsanis give $20 million for new USF medical school

Tampa Tribune

The University of South Florida is receiving $20 million, the biggest single gift in its history, from Tampa philanthropists Frank and Carol Morsani to help build a new medical school bearing the couple’s name.  It “signals what I think is going to become a bonanza of philanthropy for USF Health,” said USF College of Medicine Dean Stephen Klasko.

USF College of Medicine Takes Name of $20 Million Donor

WUSF

The Morsani College of Medicine will advance the vision that university president Judy Genshaft and USF Health CEO Stephen Klasko have for the school’s medical program specifically and the teaching and practice of medicine in general.

Morsanis to USF Health: $37 million and new moniker

Tampa Bay Business Journal

“We believe it will bring in new companies and new ideas. We hope to have spin-offs,” Klasko said. “It’s exactly what Frank wanted to support. He has built his career around new ideas.”

A historic moment: Morsanis donate $20 million to USF College of Medicine
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Frank and Carol Morsani made history when they donated $20 million to the USF Health College of Medicine — the biggest gift to the University of South Florida to date. The money will be used to help build a new educational facility for the college and to start the Stephen K. Klasko Institute for an Optimistic Future for Healthcare.

When Shopping For Holiday Toys, Watch Age Guidelines

HealthyState.org

While experts say screens won’t necessarily harm a child’s eyes, Blue was right to be concerned about her young son’s love of video games, says Professor Kathleen Armstrong, director of pediatric psychology at the University of South Florida.

Mike Curtis strives for Canton facing new foe

Fox Sports

“I think he went into a tailspin a little bit,” Clay said. By November of last year, the family’s concern had grown strong enough to arrange for a full evaluation of Curtis — made possible by the “88 Plan” — at the University of South Florida’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Medicine.

Angelman Syndrome Community Finds Hope in Local Group’s Gala with Colin Farrell
Darien Patch

A little more than three years ago, researchers at the University Of South Florida successfully restored the missing gene in mice.
“If we can do this in a mouse, there is no reason we can’t do it in humans,” said Edwin Weeber, a leading AS researcher and the gala’s keynote speaker.

Mobile phone radiation may reverse Alzheimer’s: Study
The Times of India

“Frankly, I started this work a few years ago with a hypothesis that the electromagnetic fields from a mobile phone would be deleterious to Alzheimer’s mice,” said lead author Gary Arendash, a professor at the University of Southern Florida.

How to Combat Alcohol Cravings During the Holidays
HealthyState.org
“It’s considered a high risk situation around the holidays just in general but even more specifically around family members because that’s typically the place where people drink.” says University Of South Florida College of Medicine professor Dr. Ryan Estevez.

After endoscopic lumen restoration, St. Petersburg throat cancer survivor can swallow again
St. Petersburg Times
Dr. Worth Boyce started offering the procedure in 1987. Although he retired from active medical practice in September, his colleague, Dr. David Estores, continues the work at the Joy McCann Culverhouse Center for Swallowing Disorders at USF.

Researchers find smoking is strongly associated with squamous cell carcinoma among women
Science Codex (Blog)
“Observations from the lung cancer literature may provide possible explanations for why smoking was a higher risk factor for SCC in women,” wrote Rollison and co-authoring colleagues both at Moffitt and across USF’s College of Medicine. “

Dr. Deborah Sutherland discusses CAMLS on WFTS ABC Action News

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Dr. Raul Ordorica discusses incontinence on WEDU Smart Health
http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/20111129_nerves_smarthealth.asx

Dr. Lynn Wecker and Dr. Jamie Fernandez discuss mental illness on HealthyState.org

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Innovation helps Alzheimer’s patients and their families cope

Florida Today
Byrd officials see the new Center for Memory CARE — Clinical Assessment, Research and Education — as a milestone toward building a reputation for patient care in addition to the research it has been conducting for eight years.

Is the answer to Alzheimer’s in your cup of coffee?  We may never know
St. Petersburg Times

“Without a doubt there are things that are going to get ignored because you can’t make money from it,” said Dr. Amanda Smith, medical director of the Byrd Institute.

Doctor’s orders optional for many
The Charlotte Observer
“I see patients in clinic at the end of the month who tell me they haven’t taken their medication for a week because they ran out of money and are waiting for their next check,” said Dr. Leslie Miller, chair of cardiovascular sciences at the University Of South Florida Health.

University of South Florida opens Alzheimer’s center with PET scanner
Health Imaging
The Eric Pfeiffer PET Imaging Center houses the first onsite PET scanner in an Alzheimer’s facility in Florida, said David Morgan, PhD, CEO of the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute.

Covidien Endo Stitchtm Automated Suturing Device Reduces Hospitalization Costs And Operating Room Time
MarketWatch (Featured in more than 279 news outlets including: Business Wire, istockanalyst, BrokenControllers.com, TMCnet)
“In this tough economic environment, hospitals, payors and patients all feel pressure to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the operating room,” said study co-presenter Stuart Hart, MD, FACOG, FACS, Co-Director, University Of South Florida Center for the Advancement of Minimally Invasive Pelvic Surgery.

Opening Doors

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In 2009, Tampa surgeon and FMA member Sharona Ross, MD, decided to invite some University of South Florida College of Medicine students, interns and residents to her home to so they could network with practicing surgeons.

What does it mean to be a comprehensive epilepsy center?

Epilepsy.com

Doctors and patients alike can certainly have their preferences, but if one is uncomfortable with a particular treatment modality, then a referral should be made to a truly comprehensive center that will offer all available options. Selim R. Benbadis, MD University of South Florida & Tampa General Hospital

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USF researcher helps to find brain growth problems linked to autism
St. Petersburg Times
Since these neurons develop during pregnancy, the finding weakens controversial theories that autism is caused by vaccination or other exposures in early childhood, said USF researcher Peter Mouton, co-author of the study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A tiny by potentially game-changing clue to autism’s cause
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Peter R. Mouton of the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute in Tampa was one of the study’s lead authors. “Our findings strongly support the view that autism arises during prenatal brain development, rather than drugs or other environmental effects after the child is born,” said Mouton.

Autism Linked with Excess of Neurons in Prefrontal Cortex
UC San Diego Health System (Featured in more than 641 news outlets including: Science Daily, Life Science Log, Medical Xpress, EurekAlert),

Using an advanced computerized analysis system developed by co-investigator Peter Mouton, PhD, of the University Of South Florida, along with blinded anatomical and cell count measurements, the study found that children with autism had 67 percent more neurons in the prefrontal cortex than control subjects.

Nurses flexing their muscles in the health care arena
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
“Nurses now are not only clinicians at the bedside,” said Dianne Morrison-Beedy, dean at the University Of South Florida College of Nursing. “We are educators, leaders and scientists who are changing what happens to patients at the bedside. It does help elevate us, and really makes us full partners in changing what’s happening in health care.”

New Research Breaking Down Barriers Of PTSD
HealthyState.org
The University Of South Florida’s Dr. Carrie Elk thinks so. Using a grant funded by the Department of Defense, Dr. Elk is currently treating veterans suffering from PTSD through a process called accelerated resolution therapy.

Robotics Being Used For More Surgeries By More Specialists Locally
The Ledger
Dr. Lennox Hoyte, obstetrician-gynecologist at the University Of South Florida College of Medicine, said he can do increasingly more delicate procedures with the robotic instruments as he gains experience. He has trained more than 50 gynecologic surgeons in robotic techniques

Hernando County Sherriff: Hundreds of medical records are at risk

ABC Action News

Dr. Jay Wolfson, a professor at USF College of Public Health, calls Dr. Yason, at the very least, naive. “I think the patients need to know exactly what happened to those medical records,” Dr. Wolfson said. “The most intimate things about people are discussed in greatest confidence.”

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Dr. Lewis Rubin discusses pre-term births in Florida on WTVT Fox 13

http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/20111101_WTVT_DrRubin_pretermbirths.asx

Dr. Daniel Buffington talks about the FDA drug shortage on WFTS ABC Action News

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OCD’s roots in children beginning to be explored

USA Today

Although vulnerability to OCD remains, about half of kids will achieve a complete remission after a few months of appropriate treatment, says Eric Storch, associate professor at the University of South Florida.

Pediatricians Group Urges Routine HIV Testing for Teens
Time Healthland

“Our youth are having sex and our youth are getting HIV,” says Patricia Emmanuel, a professor of pediatrics at the University of South Florida and co-author of the report.
CDC Panel Votes to Extend HPV Vaccine to Young Boys

ABC News
“Vaccination is perhaps the greatest invention of medicine,” said Dr. John Sinnott, director of the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of South Florida. “It is a tragedy that this vaccine has become politicized.”

Joel Richter – People on the move

Tampa Bay Business Journal

Dr. Richter recently joined USF Health to direct the College of Medicine’s Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition and the Joy McCann Culverhouse Center for Swallowing Disorders. He also holds the Hugh F. Culverhouse Chair for Esophagology.

Doctors, patients find robots may be a cut above for hysterectomies

St. Petersburg Times

Doctors say it’s a matter of training, time and the preferences of doctors and patients. Many veteran ob-gyns aren’t trained in newer techniques, said Dr. Larry Glazerman, director of the minimally invasive gynecologic surgery program at the University of South Florida.

The Power of Green Tea

The Lakeland Ledger

Patients with HGPIN usually have symptoms and go to their urologists, said Kumar, who is also a professor of oncologic sciences at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

Robotic-Assisted Surgery Symposium at Winter Haven Hospital

The Lakeland Ledger

“We’ve found we can do more complex things than we could before,” said Dr. Lennox Hoyte, a scheduled speaker from the University of South Florida who specializes in urogynecology. “I do a lot surgically now I could not have imaged two years ago.”

AAP Backs HIV Tests for Teens

MedPage Today

If the local community prevalence is lower, pediatricians should offer the test to all sexually active patients as well as to those with other risk factors, such as drug use, according to Patricia J. Emmanuel, MD, of the University Of South Florida, and colleagues on the academy’s Committee of Pediatric AIDS.

Prescription drug crisis hits newborns in Florida

The Miami Herald

Catherine Lynch, M.D., is associate vice president for Women’s Health, professor and director of General Obstetrics and Gynecology at the USF College of Medicine. Ellen Daley, Ph.D., MPH, is associate professor at the USF College of Public Health and program director for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Women’s Health.

How to keep the Thanksgiving gobbling in check

KJRH.com

Offering fewer choices often results in fewer calories consumed, says Dr. Denise Edwards, director of the Healthy Weight Clinic at the University Of South Florida (USF).

Early Identification and Treatment of Childhood OCD is Key
Babbel (Blog)

The good news is that almost half of the children who present with OCD will “achieve a complete remission after a few months of appropriate treatment,” observes Eric Storch, an associate professor at the University Of South Florida.

Bert Fish hospital board to weigh options for future
The Daytona Beach News-Journal

And that’s because of pronounced trends in the health-care world, said Jay Wolfson, an adjunct professor of health law at Stetson University and associate vice president of health law, policy and safety at the University Of South Florida.

SELECT Students at University of South Florida Join ACPE

American College of Physician Executives UPDATE

As medical schools throughout the country examine the importance of integrating leadership skills into the traditional curriculum, ACPE has created learning opportunities for a group of students at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

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Dr. Gabriel Alejandro De Erausquin discusses brain testing criminals on WFLA

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Dr. Martha Coulter talks about The Harrell Center on ABC Action News Positively Tampa Bay

http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/201110_WFTS_Harrell_center.asx

Dr. John McCormick discusses the HPV vaccine for boys on Fox 13

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/health/doctor_jo/panel-recommends-hpv-vaccine-for-boys-10252011

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From “House” to Heart: Teleos Leadership Institute Innovates with University of South Florida College of Medicine and Lehigh Valley Health Network to Create a New Program for Medical Students
The Miami Herald (Featured in more than 150 news outlets including: MarketWatch, EIN News, PR Newswire, KMPH FOX 26)
…SELECT is a joint venture between USF College of Medicine in Tampa, FL, Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) in Allentown, PA and Teleos Leadership Institute in Philadelphia, PA…

CDC Extends HPV Vaccine Recommendation to Young Boys

Yahoo! News (ABCNews.com)

“Vaccination is perhaps the greatest invention of medicine,” said Dr. John Sinnott, director of the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of South Florida. “

Brian-testing technique on trial in court

The Tampa Tribune
…”The purpose of any test in courts is making an association, and in that sense this technique is useless,” says Gabriel Alejandro De Erausquin, a professor of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry at the University Of South Florida…

Dormant malaria parasites in red blood cells may contribute to treatment failure

e! Science News (AndraNews.net, PhysOrg.com, Bio-Medicine, Health Canal, Science Daily, E Bio News, Infection Control Today, MediLexicon)

“Our study was able to induce the same dormant stage in vivo – in a rodent Malaria model – that was previously seen only in the test tube,” said principal investigator Dennis Kyle, PhD, distinguished university health professor at the USF College of Public Health.

Too many babies suffering drug withdrawal

The St. Petersburg Times

Catherine Lynch, M.D., left, is associate vice president for Women’s Health, professor and director of General Obstetrics and Gynecology at the USF College of Medicine. Ellen Daley, Ph.D., MPH, right, is associate professor at the USF College of Public Health and program director for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Women’s Health.

Driver’s seizure history could lead to charges in fatal Tampa crash

St. Petersburg Times

“If you know you have a problem that could reoccur, then you’re knowingly placing people at risk,” said Wolfson, who teaches at Stetson College of Law and the University of South Florida.

Tampa VA lost private medical photos of breast cancer patients

ABCActionNews.com

An incredible invasion of privacy says Jay Wolfson, a medical privacy expert at USF.  “It needs to be used and managed in a way that guarantees to the highest possible possibility that it’s not going to be lost and stolen,” Wolfson says.

Tucker McCarty remembered at USF pharmacy celebration

St. Augustine.com

Tucker McCarty, 21, lost his life in an accident in Fort White just two days after interviewing at USF, Dr. Kevin Sneed, founding dean of the USF College of Pharmacy, told a gathering which included McCarty’s parent, Delaine and Obie McCarty.

Social media used to support safer sex for USF study

The Miami Herald

Buhi, an assistant professor in USF’s College of Public Health, has spent his research career studying the sexual health and behavior of young people, focusing largely on the Internet and the threats it may, or may not, pose.

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AAN Releases Updated Guideline for Treating Essential Tremor

Innovations report (MediLexicon, BIERMANN MEDIZIN, Medical Xpress, Internal Medicine News, News Medical)

“More and better research is needed since not all people with essential tremor benefit from these drugs,” said lead guideline author Theresa A. Zesiewicz, MD, with the University of South Florida in Tampa and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.

Grandmother’s illness inspired goal to get pharmacy degree

St. Petersburg Times

Phillip Bonet is a doctor of pharmacy candidate at USF. He expects to graduate in 2015. The University of South Florida College of Pharmacy welcomed its inaugural class this year. October is National Pharmacist’s Month, and to celebrate, professors asked students to write essays answering the question, “What brought you to the profession of pharmacy?” The professors chose the winning essay published here.

Food for thought: Vitamins that keep your brain young

WBOC.com

“The key is to try to get these nutrients from whole foods whenever possible, because they can act synergistically,” says Paula Bickford, a doctor of pharmacology and professor in the department of neurosurgery and brain repair at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

USF Offers Free Flu Shots
WUSF

College of Public Health Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Deanna Wathington says while everyone should get the shot, there’s certain groups that really need it.

National League for Nursing Announces Selections for Faculty Leadership Development Program for Simulation Educators

NLN.org

Twenty nurse educators have been selected through a competitive application for the year-long Leadership Development Program for Simulation Educators….  …Laura Gonzalez, PhD, ARNP, CNE , University of South Florida, Tampa

Teens’ IQ may fluctuate

Health 24 (Yahoo! News, Health.com, KLKNtv.com, USA Today – Your Life)

The brain is clearly, at least in the teenage years, more plastic and amenable to change,” said Paul Sanberg, distinguished professor of neurosurgery and director of the University of South Florida Center for Aging and Brain Repair in Tampa.

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Dr. Charles Cox and Dr. Mary Gardner discuss ABC Action News Health Reporter Linda Hurtado’s Breast Cancer

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/health/Linda-Hurtado-has-a-very-personal-health-story-to-share-She-has-breast-cancer

Dr. Carrie Elk discusses Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in veterans

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TBBJ’s 2011 Health Care Heroes winners named, celebrated

Tampa Bay Business Journal

Health care educator: Dr. John Sinnott, associate dean of USF Medicine, Dr. Charles Cox, professor of surgery at the University of South Florida

Social media used to support safer sex for USF study

The Tampa Tribune

Buhi, an assistant professor in USF’s College of Public Health, has spent his research career studying the sexual health and behavior of young people, focusing largely on the Internet and the threats it may, or may not, pose.

USF Health sports medicine expert encourages Villagers to stay active

‎Villages Daily Sun

Dr. Chuck Nofsinger, of the USF Health Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, speaks at Savannah Center on Wednesday during the USF Health in…

Final chapter may be shaping up in hospital networks competition

‎Observer News

That coalition includes both the College of Medicine at the University of South Florida and local community leaders such as Dr. Pat Crow, retired physician…

Social media used to support safer sex for USF study

‎The Tampa Tribune

He and a group of student helpers are using USF to pilot test their “BtC” campaign. They recently handed out fliers and T-shirts and wrote messages in chalk…

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Dr. Lewis Rubin talks about babies born addicted to pain meds on ABC Action News

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USF Targets Back Pain, Injuries in Military Vets

83DegreesMedia.com

“Low back pain and injury is among the top non-battle injuries in the U.S. Armed Forces,” says Dr. John Mayer, associate professor at the USF School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences.

USF program shows promise with OCD

‎The Tampa Tribune

Then she heard about a small pilot study conducted by Eric Storch, a psychologist at the University of South Florida. The family’s insurance didn’t cover…

Early Parkinson’s diagnosis aided by new technology

‎East Valley Tribune

… said Dr. Robert Hauser, director of the University of South Florida’s Health’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center…

Infant mortality linked to subsequent risk of stillbirth

‎The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Black women experienced the highest rates of stillbirth in subsequent pregnancy, the study by researchers from the University of South Florida and…

USF study seeks to turn existing drug into new childhood OCD treatment

‎The St. Petersburg Times

Now, University of South Florida researchers are offering an unlikely alternative. With $1.1 million from the National Institutes of Health, the university…

Helping children best a disorder

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Now, University of South Florida researchers are offering an unlikely alternative. With $1.1 million from the National Institutes of Health, the university is studying a treatment…

Screen children to find potential development problems early

St. Petersburg Times

Peter A. Gorski, M.D., M.P.A. is the director of research and innovation at the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County and professor of pediatrics, public health and psychiatry at the University of South Florida.

PTSD raised in shooting of deputy

‎The Tampa Tribune

Carrie Elk, a therapist co-investigating a radical new PTSD therapy at the University of South Florida, said that for those suffering from PTSD…

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Volunteers needed for clinical studies in fight against Parkinson’s disease

St. Petersburg Times

Here in Tampa, a team led by Robert A. Hauser, a medical doctor with an MBA who is director of the University of South Florida Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, has joined forces with us on a clinical study called the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative.

ASHDOD: City, Federation & USF plan mission to Sister City

Jewish Press Tampa

The potential benefits of the mission are great. “This could be a game changer for the city (Tampa) and for USF,” said Dr. Deborah Sutherland, a member of the USF delegation.

USF researchers investigate exercise to help soldiers prevent back pain

‎The St. Petersburg Times (First Science News)

After retirement, back pain is a top reason that soldiers leave service, according to researchers at the University of South Florida studying a potential…

Sarasota heart patients overexposed to radiation

‎The Sarasota Herald-Tribune

… in their bodies longer than it should have been, said Enrique Urrutia, a professor of radiology and nuclear medicine at the University of South Florida…

Death of firstborn may predict stillbirth

‎The Tampa Tribune

Dr. Hamisu Salihu, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Florida College of Public Health, was a principal investigator for…

Asthma treatment Primatene Mist to leave market at year’s end

‎The St. Petersburg Times (The MIT Tech)

… Absolutely,” said Dr. Richard Lockey, director of the division of allergy and immunology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine…

Early Parkinson’s diagnosis aided by new technology

‎The Republic (Scripps News)

… said Dr. Robert Hauser, director of the University of South Florida’s Health’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center…

Solutions for Everyday Overindulging

‎Fox News

… discomfort and the potential long-term damage,” says Susan Weinkle, an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of South Florida, in Tampa…

Trauma center in doubt after judge’s ruling

‎The Bradenton Herald (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Tampa Bay Business Journal)

Last year, University of South Florida announced a partnership between its medical school and HCA’s trauma program, and brought in two national trauma…

Prostate cancer urine test may one day reduce number of biopsies

St. Petersburg Times

…said Dr. David Hernandez, assistant professor of urology at the University of South Florida. “Prostate cancer is highly variable,” Hernandez …

Murder-suicides among elderly an act of desperation

‎phillyBurbs.com

… according to Donna Cohen, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of South Florida‘s department of aging and mental health. …

Prevent Alzheimer’s, Cancer: The Positive Effects of Drinking Coffee

‎The Atlantic

Big caffeine addicts could help delay or prevent the symptom’s of the disease, according to University of South Florida research…

Judge says Tampa Bay trauma hospitals will lose more money if HCA expansion is approved

‎The St. Petersburg Times

… and their plight could rapidly worsen if the HCA hospital chain opens competing trauma centers under a partnership with the University of South Florida…

Can they hang up the gloves?

‎The St. Petersburg Times

Among the presenters: Nicole Johnson, a Type 1 diabetic, former Miss America and now executive director of the University of South Florida‘s Bringing…

Cocaine Users Have 45 Percent Increased Risk of Glaucoma

‎Health Canal (EurekAlert)

In addition to Dr. French, co-authors are Curtis E. Margo, MD, of the University of South Florida College of Medicine and Lynn E. Harman, MD…

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Dr. Morgan discusses the link between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s on FOX 13

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/health/doctor_jo/study-links-diabetes-alzheimers-09202011

Dr. Drucker talks about why astronauts can experience blurry vision on FOX 13

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Fear Proves Prime Motivator for Vaccinations

‎U.S. News & World Report

… said Dr. Adewale Troutman, director of the public health practice program at the University of South Florida, who, until recently, headed the Department…

US Department of Defense awards University of South Florida $1.59 million for musculoskeletal research

Physorg.com (BioPortfolio)

The University of South Florida School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences has received a $1.59-million U.S. Department of Defense award for leading-edge musculoskeletal research intended to benefit active duty soldiers and veterans and improve military preparedness.

USF CAMLS project grows downtown

83 Degrees Media

“CAMLS will provide USF with an urban campus space as well as an extremely efficient building for all different types of medical education and training,” says Dr. Deborah Sutherland, VP of USF Health Continuing Professional Development and CEO of USF Health Professions Conferencing Corporation (HPCC).

USF SELECT elevates value of emotional intelligence training

‎Tampa Bay Business Journal

The 19 students are the inaugural class of USF’s SELECT medical school program and achieved that goal through an evaluation process assessing their…

Building a Better Doctor

USF Magazine

“With SELECT, we intend to change the DNA of health care, one physician leader at a time,” says Stephen Klasko, M.D., dean of the USF College of Medicine and CEO of USF Health.

UCH centers join Florida Hospital system

‎The Tampa Tribune (The St. Petersburg Times, WUSF 89.7 News, Trading Charts)

The Florida Hospital network has partnered with the University of South Florida to achieve those goals and “become a world-class hospital,” Harding said…

Infant’s death shines light on practice of medicating kids to sleep

‎The St. Petersburg Times

… can have unpredictable or even toxic side effects, said Glenn Whelan, a doctor of pharmacy and assistant professor at the University of South Florida…

Study: Smartphone apps might not help heavy drinkers drink less

‎Consumer Reports Blog

Researchers, led by Dr. Amy Cohen, an assistant professor in the mental health policy and law department of the University of South Florida in Tampa…

No Proof That Smartphone Apps Help Drinkers Reduce Alcohol Use

‎Health Behavior News Service

… Ph.D., lead study author and an assistant professor in the department of mental health law and policy at the University of South Florida in Tampa…

Exclusive: Drug makers pad doctors’ income

‎The News-Press

Either way, these partnerships should be made public, said Jay Wolfson, a professor of public health and medicine at the University of South Florida…

Study: Infant death may predict subsequent stillbirth

‎The Tampa Tribune (including 15 additional news outlets: Bloomberg, News-Medical.net, Eureka! Science News)

Dr. Hamisu Salihu, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Florida College of Public Health, was a principal investigator for…

Miss America 1999 gives tips on living well with illness

‎Villages Daily Sun

Nicole Johnson, Miss America 1999, holds her crown as she speaks to the crowd at Savannah Center in The Villages on Tuesday during the USF Health in…

USF College of Nursing to Host Workshop

‎Digital Journal (Insurance News, Benzinga)

… “Spit Camp Workshop” seminar on October 6th, 2011, which is being co-hosted by the University of South Florida College of Nursing and Salimetrics, LLC…

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Dr. David Rose talks about preventing strokes on WFLA – Channel 8

http://www2.tbo.com/news/2011/sep/15/preventing-strokes-with-fruit-and-vegeta-78707-vi-24142/

Dr. Lennox Hoyte discusses potential FDA ban of mesh products for prolapse on WTSP – Channel 10

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/209665/8/FDA-might-ban-mesh-product-called-dangerous

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Robertson Stirs Passions With Suggestion to Divorce an Alzheimer’s Patient

The New York Times

Dr. Amanda G. Smith, medical director of the Alzheimer’s Institute of the University of South Florida Health, in Tampa, said of Mr. Robertson’s remarks, “I think he was trying to give someone the freedom to move on, but he only took account of the caregiver without taking account of the patient.”

Pat Robertson Says Alzheimer’s Makes Divorce OK

‎ABC News

“To condone abandoning one’s spouse in the throes of this mind-robbing illness is absurd,” said Dr. Amanda Smith, medical director at the University of South Florida Health Alzheimer’s Center in Tampa.

Squirts of insulin may help those with early Alzheimer’s

‎The St. Petersburg Times

Dr. David Morgan, chief executive of the Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute at the University of South Florida, says he has seen many small-scale studies that…

USF SELECT elevates value of emotional intelligence training

Tampa Bay Business Journal

“We’re committed to creating a four-year leadership training curriculum based on emotional intelligence for these students and incorporating it later into all student training,” said Alicia Monroe, vice dean of education affairs…

4 Surprising Reasons Why You Can’t Lose Weight

HealthyState.org

Dr. Pamela Wartian Smith also co-directs the master’s program in metabolic and nutritional medicine at the University of South Florida.

How do I stay in shape while recovering from an injury?

‎The Tampa Tribune

… allow the healing process to go as planned. Larry Collins is a physician assistant in the USF Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at USF Health.

Arsenic Found In Apple Juice

‎WJXT Jacksonville

Dietician at the University of South Florida, Dr. Lauri Wright compared the arsenic issue to apple seeds. “It’s just so minute and there’s no evidence of…

Aging can bring out vulnerabilities, unhealthy behaviors
The Tampa Tribune

… professor and chair of the department of Aging & Mental Health at the University of South Florida’s Florida Mental Health Institute…

Nature new focus of USF lab targeting biological terror

‎The Tampa Tribune

USF is trying to be ready for “what’s around the corner,” Cannons said, be it a deadly new virus, antibiotic-resistant organism or food-borne illness

Appeals Court Tosses Out Two Healthcare Reform Suits
MedPage Today

Jay Wolfson, DrPH, JD, a professor of health law and policy at the University of South Florida, told MedPage Today and ABC News in an email that the debate…

Tampa General Among Elite With Top Rank in Seven Specialties
MD News

… the result of the teamwork that exists between the hospital staff, the University of South Florida College of Medicine and community medical providers…

When Protecting Baby Becomes an Obsession
U.S. News & World Report (also included in more than 10 news outlets: MSN Health & Fitness, Medline Plus, Yahoo! News India, Med Broadcast, Doctors Lounge)

… an associate professor of pediatrics, psychiatry and psychology at the University of South Florida Medical School who has studied postpartum OCD…

Postpartum OCD is becoming more common
Health24.com

… an associate professor of pediatrics, psychiatry and psychology at the University of South Florida Medical School who has studied postpartum OCD…

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Dr. Hauser discusses DaTscan on WEDU’s Smart Health program

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USF Health’s Klasko: Patients should expect personalized care

Villages Daily Sun

That’s because USF Health experts like its CEO and vice president, Dr. Stephen Klasko, want to work with The Villages and Central Florida Health Alliance to shake up the old way of taking care of patients by bringing innovation to health care that will help improve the quality of residents’ lives.

Alzheimer’s experts praise Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt for her courage and candor

The St. Petersburg Times

Summitt’s resolve to keep coaching “is courageous,” said Dr. Amanda Smith, medical director of the Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute at the University of South Florida.

Alzheimer’s wave will make Florida its ground zero

The Orlando Sentinel (The Bradenton Herald)

Beyond the cost to taxpayers, Alzheimer’s disease is devastating to families, said David Morgan, CEO and director of the Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute at the University of Southern Florida.

Pulling it together

MSN Fox Sports

“Initially, it’s very, very painful,” said Dr. David Leffers, chairman of orthopaedics and sports medicine at USF Health.

Ask the expert: No need to skip breakfast; try these quick, healthy options

The Tampa Tribune

Dr. Edwards is an assistant professor of pediatrics and internal medicine, and director of the Healthy Weight Clinic at USF Health.

Chocolate milk delivers nutrition but stirs debate

Tampa Tribune (Wellness.com)

“But they were physically active.” Denise Edwards, director of USF’s Healthy Weight Clinic, said too much is being made of about the connection…

Amy Winehouse’s death raises concerns about cold-turkey approach to alcohol detox

The St. Petersburg Times

Dr. Ryan Estevez, a University of South Florida addiction specialist and assistant professor in the department of psychiatry, has shepherded thousands of substance abuse patients through detox.

Groups Turn the Heat Up on OSHA

‎EHS Today

Dr. Thomas Bernard, professor and chair of environmental and occupational health at the University of South Florida and a leading expert on heat stress in workers…

The right way to start school year

HeraldNet

… Board of Hillsborough County, Fla., a pediatrician and a professor of pediatrics, public health and psychiatry at the University of South Florida.

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Dr. Mary Lien discusses why hair turns gray on Fox 13

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Football injury simulator

WUSF

USF has a high-tech tool that helps in their medical training efforts—iStan, a life-like simulator that mimics anything from heat exhaustion to cardiac arrest.

Stress, insomnia and allergies, not food, make you fat!

International News Network (MedIndiaTruth Dive, News Track India, Zee News, Southern Courier, The Daily Telegraph, Perth Now, NEWS.com, PunjabKasari.com)

The co-director of the Metabolic and Nutritional Program at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Dr Smith said in her new book that for…

‘The Girl in the Window’ Learning to Connect

The Ledger‎

Armstrong, director of pediatric psychology at the University of South Florida medical school, called Dani’s condition “environmental autism … the most outrageous case of neglect I’ve ever seen.” The Lierows said none of that mattered. …

The skinny on fatty acids

Tampa Tribune

“We know EPA and DHA benefit the heart,” said Jose Barboza, a pharmacist and assistant professor at the University of South Florida College of Pharmacy…

Food for Thought: Vitamins that keep your brain young

WLNS TV 6

New research sheds light on how certain vitamins and other nutrients may keep your memory sharp and your brain agile — and ward off dementia — as you get older…professor in the department of neurosurgery and brain repair at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. So which vitamins and nutrients…

International pharmacogenomics conference to focus on better drug …

PhysOrg.com

The first international conference hosted by the University of South Florida College of Pharmacy will focus on ways to improve health care by customizing…

Isolated Stem Cells Can “Differentiate into Different Cells”

TopNews United States (Eurasia Review, Red Orbit)

Also, the study’s corresponding author Dr. Cesar V. Borlongan, Professor and Vice Chair for research in the University of South Florida’s Department of…

Stem cells derived from human amniotic fluid hold promise

EurekAlert (PhysOrg.com)

Contact: Dr. Cesar V. Borlongan, professor and vice chair for research, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, University of South Florida, Tampa, …

Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance

Studio 10 TV

The Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA), in partnership with the University of South Florida’s Ataxia Research Center (USF ARC), is hosting its third annual FARA Energy Ball on Saturday…

Cuts loom at Lee, Collier health agencies

The News-Press

Carol Bryant, a University of South Florida health professor and co-director of the Florida Prevention Research Center, said it shouldn’t be a surprise that…

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Dr. Rubin discusses babies addicted to pain meds on Fox 13

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Janie Norman talks about the pros and cons of diet sodas on Fox 13

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$300 downtown Tampa office, hotel complex proposed

Tampa Bay Business Journal

If successful, the new project could kick start the languishing Tampa economy, which has seen some recent momentum in multifamily development and the University of South Florida University of South Florida Latest from The Business Journals New development may spring hope in downtown TampaFrank Morsani: Eager to write a memoirUSF Polytechnic: Autonomy recommended by Polk business, civic leaders Follow this company ’s Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, or CAMLS, now under construction downtown.

Major office tower and hotel planned for downtown Tampa

The Tampa Tribune

In fact, Trammell Crow is betting that the physicians who fly into Tampa to learn about the latest in medical technology at CAMLS will want to stay at the Southgate project’s new hotel. He is looking for a hotel brand to partner with, he said.

Barbara Morris – Enthusiastic Educator

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But it has been her current work as assistant program director for the S.M.A.R.T. Institute at the University of South Florida’s medical school’s orthopedic program where she feels most rewarded.

Chubbier Boomer Generation costly for Medicare

Orlando Bulletin

The first of the baby boomers are turning 65 this year and enrolling in Medicare. The federal health care system is expected to add 2…Knox, an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of South Florida, who also works at the school s Healthy Weight…

Volusia takeover of EVAC will require workers to be nicotine free

Daytona Beach News-Journal

He is also an associate vice president of health, law policy and safety at the University of South Florida. “A non-criminal activity is going to serve as the basis of an invasive test,” Wolfson said, adding that he’s sure this will be challenged in…

Rays’ Sam Fuld back at Fenway, where legend began

Boston Herald‎ (Tampa Tribune)

Fuld, diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was 10, spoke to a group of children with diabetes after a Rays game at Tropicana Field and toured the University of South Florida’s new diabetes center during the last homestand…

Endothelial progenitor cells may repair leaky blood-brain barrier

News-Medical.net‎

University of South Florida Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair faculty members have received a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential for cells derived from human bone marrow to benefit…

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Tampa Bay Rays: Sam Fuld, Matt Joyce perform good deeds 

St. Petersburg Times

OF Sam Fuld, who has Type 1 diabetes, will tour the USF Diabetes Center this morning and meet with young patients there, as well as USF president Judy Genshaft…

Tampa Bay Rays’ Sam Fuld cheers patients at USF diabetes center

St. Petersburg Times (My Fox Tampa Bay, Bay News 9; Central Florida News 13‎‎)

Andrew was one of several young patients Fuld met during his two-hour tour of the University of South Florida’s new diabetes center, a 10000-square-foot facility that opened last month in the Carol & Frank Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare…

DaTscan, new drug help with early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease

St. Petersburg Times

That figure may be 15 or even 25 percent in practices that don’t specialize in the condition, said Dr. Robert Hauser, director of the USF Health’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center.

Got sleep apnea? Tampa General Hospital may need you to test a new device

St. Petersburg Times

“The system is designed to be permanent,” said Dr. Tapan Padhya, an ear, nose and throat specialist who heads the TGH study and is co-director of the USF ENT Sleep and Snoring Clinic. “But the battery and the housing of the stimulator will have to be…

Paging Dr. Google Prescription for trouble

‎Tampa Tribune (istockAnalyst.com)

Most consumers approach their health with an open mind, says Glenn Whelan, a doctor of pharmacy and assistant professor at the University of South Florida …

Athletes must be heat smart

Tampa Tribune

… as high school football officially begins today in Florida and teams are … physician for the University of South Florida‘s athletic department…

Athletes Must Pay Attention to Heat

Sports Radio ESPN 1420 ‎

It’s one reason heat-related illnesses lead to so many deaths among high school athletes in the US The University of South Florida’s chief medical physician Eric Coris says athletes face a greater risk early on, when their bodies are not acclimated to…

Tampa doctor changed by Children’s Home experience

Florida Baptist Witness (Topix)

Tommy McElroy walks quickly down the hall to his next patient at the Center for Advanced Healthcare on the campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa.

USF researchers get $2.6 million NIH grant to investigate new post-stroke therapy

Bio-Medicine

University of South Florida Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair faculty members have received a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential for cells derived from human bone marrow to benefit post-stroke patients by repairing the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

Chubbier baby boomer generation costly for Medicare

‎Tampa Tribune

… an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of South Florida, who also works at the school’s Healthy Weight Clinic.

Chubbier boomer generation costly for Medicare

Kansas.com ‎

A greasy diet and dwindling physical activity at work caused boomers’ weights to balloon, said Brian Knox, an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of South Florida, who also works at the school’s Healthy Weight…

UPF clothes may work better than sunscreen

MSNBC.COM‎

“Being sun-aware myself and an outdoor person, it has been a godsend,” said Weinkle, a dermatologist in Bradenton, Fla., and an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at University of South Florida. “It’s not always the most stylish and the cost…

Cod Genome Reveals Stunning Gap in Immune System

Science AAAS (Science Now)

“There are other examples of animals that have evolved slightly different immune systems,” says Gary Litman, an immunologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, who was not involved in the study, “but this stands out as an exceptional…

Lee Memorial launching residency program for family physicians

Naples Daily New‎s

At the same time, Fogarty said he knew Lee Memorial was talking to the University of Florida in Gainesville and the University of South Florida in Tampa about partnering for a residency program. Ideally, some of the 30 to 35 medical students each year…

BJ’s Charitable Foundation Donates $673650 to Charitable Organizations

CSRwire.com‎

University of South Florida Foundation’s Ronald McDonald Care Mobile (Tampa) – $12500 for medical equipment maintenance, upgrades and salary support for two key positions that operate the Care Mobile. The Care Mobile is a 40-foot-long by 8-foot-wide…

Donation from ‘Motherhood’

Tampa Tribune

With a suggested donation of $1 each (and lots have given more than $1 — with several patrons paying as much as $20), all profits from the sale of the buttons go to the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of South Florida…

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The Mayor’s Hour – USF Center for Advanced Medical Learning & Simulation

CTTV – Channel 15

Mayor Buckhorn and 970 Radio Personality Jack Harris visit USF Health to talk about the new USF Center for Advanced Medical Learning & Simulation and how it will have a global impact on the way medicine is taught. Guests on the program include Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of USF Health and Dean of the USF College of Medicine, Dr. Deborah Sutherland, CEO of the USF Center for Advanced Medical Learning & Simulation, and Mark House, Managing Director of The Beck Group.

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USF joins national effort to reform doctor training

St. Petersburg Times

“We haven’t traditionally invested in developing physicians as people,” said Dr. Alicia Monroe, vice dean for educational affairs at USF College of Medicine.

New Program at USF Health Hopes to Mold More Empathetic Physicians

The Wall Street Journal (Newsodrome)

Can we teach empathy to the next generation of physicians? The University of South Florida Health thinks so and they’re putting it on the line this week with the launch of the SELECT program, a new curriculum intended to “put empathy, communication and creativity back into doctoring.”

Goodbye Dr. Welby… Hello Dr. House

The Student Doctor Network

“Students will be immersed in leadership training and grounded in empathy and other core principles of patient-centered care,” Alicia D.H. Monroe, MD, USF COM’ Vice Dean of Educational Affairs tells SDN. She adds that students in this program will take regular “core MD” classes in addition to their SELECT-specific curriculum.

5 Local Students In LVH’s First Med School Class‎
Patch.com

LVHN contributed $2 million for the project, which was matched by USF Health. … Dr. Alan Otsuki, associate dean of educational affairs at USF Health and…

Health care reform now considers birth control a preventive care measure for women

ABC Action News

However, Dr. Jay Wolfson, a health law specialist at USF College of Public Health, says the legal argument favors free contraception. “If…

USF, UT receive federal nursing grants

‎Bizjournals.com

University of South Florida and University of Tampa were among the Florida schools that received part of a $71.3 million federal grant package to expand…

Coffee helps fight Alzheimer`s disease

‎PakTribune.com

A new Alzheimer’s study by University of South Florida researchers has found that a yet unidentified component of coffee that interacts with the…

Coffee Appears to Fight Alzheimer’s

Prepared Foods.com

A new Alzheimer’s study by University of South Florida researchers has found that a yet unidentified component of coffee that interacts with the beverage’s caffeine boosts blood levels of a critical growth factor that seems to fight off the Alzheimer’s…

Sun Protection Clothing: as Good as Sunscreen or Better

My Health News Daily

Outdoor enthusiast Dr. Susan Weinkle has found a way to do what she once considered impossible: she can kayak Florida’s waterways for five-hour stretches in midsummer and not get a speck of sunburn…in Bradenton, Fla., and an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at University of South Florida. “It’s not always the most stylish and…

Aging Florida due for a wave of Alzheimer’s

‎Sun-Sentinel

“It’s a complex problem, and one that’s really going to hit Florida hard,” said USF’s Morgan. “The worst part is what it does to the families…

Fitch Affirms All Children’s Hospital (FL) Rev Bonds at ‘AA’; Outlook Stable

‎Business Wire (TMC Net)

Currently, University of South Florida (USF) has approximately 60 residents training at ACH through 2014 and USF will decide if it wants to continue its…

Hospital challenged in quest to become trauma center

‎Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Blake applied for trauma center status in September, and in November HCA announced a new partnership with the University of South Florida College of…

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Dr. Monroe discusses the SELECT program on ABC Action News

http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/2011_07_25_WFTS_SELECT_program.asx

Dr. Fenske talks about benefits of skin creams on Fox 13

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Dr. Denise Edwards weighs in about the new “healthier” happy meals

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/health/the-happy-meal-gets-healthier-07262011

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Incoming Medical Students Clear Empathy Hurdle

‎Medscape

SELECT was jointly created by USF College of Medicine, where students will spend their…

USF Health Looks to Create Next Gen MD Leaders

33 Charts (medical blog)

Can we teach empathy to the next generation of physicians?  The University of South Florida Health thinks so and they’re putting it on the line this week with the launch of the SELECT program, a new curriculum intended to “put empathy, communication and creativity back into doctoring.”

Medical Students Selected for Emotional Intelligence Arrive at USF Health for

Newswise‎

The first medical students enrolled in SELECT, an innovative program designed to educate the physician leaders of the future, will arrive on the USF Health campus this week. In addition to their academic credentials…

Developing Empathetic Physician Leaders

Health Leaders Media

“We really think this is an idea whose time has come,” said Alicia Monroe, vice dean of educational affairs who leads USF’s undergraduate medical education program.

Innovative MD leadership program for medical students

NewsMedical

The first medical students enrolled in SELECT, an innovative program designed to educate the physician leaders of the future, will arrive on the USF Health campus this week.

Emotional IQ Necessary for New MD Leadership Program

EndoNurse

“With SELECT, we intend to change the DNA of healthcare, one future physician leader at a time,” said Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, dean of the USF College of Medicine and CEO of USF Health.

Physician Spotlight: Neil A. Fenske, MD

Tampa Bay Medical News

“I’m a guy who came up the hard way,” said Fenske, chairman of the Department of Dermatology & Cutane­ous Surgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa.

10 Ways to Treat Sunburn

HealthyState.org

It’s too late for the “an ounce of prevention” lecture. You need relief. Here to save the day is Dr. Neil Fenske, professor and chairman of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

USF Tackles Heat Illness Starting with a Pill

St. Petersburg Times

When University of South Florida football players head to training camp in the next few weeks, they’ll have pads and helmets to protect against injuries…

Proposed Medicare cuts make Florida medical schools worry about doctor training

St. Petersburg Times

“I think Congress really ought to think about where they want to perform the cuts … and I won’t say the decision is easy,” said Dr. Chuck Paidas, associate dean for the University of South Florida‘s graduate medical education…

Pharmacy school plan calls for move to USF Poly

News Chief ‎

Preliminary accreditation recently awarded to a new University of South Florida College of Pharmacy is good news for advocates of USF Polytechnic. The pharmacy college’s fledgling class of 50 will start on the main…

Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite

Patch.com‎

While it’s an incredibly small study, the results could be far-reaching, said Philip D. Shenefelt, physician and associate professor at the University of South Florida’s Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, who urged caution…

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USF Pharmacy School to Open in Lakeland

The Ledger ‎

Preliminary accreditation recently awarded to a new University of South Florida College of Pharmacy is good news for advocates of USF Polytechnic. The pharmacy college’s fledgling class of 50 will start on the main…

USF Pharmacy College Gets Initial Accreditation

The Ledger‎ (BizJournals.com, Tampa Bay Business Journal)

The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education gave the new USF College of Pharmacy initial accreditation earlier this month. The new college also has gotten membership in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, which USF officials said is…

Trainers can learn a lot from a dummy

Tampa Tribune

A University of South Florida medical team attends to an iStan human simulator at the USF football practice field Wednesday. The dummy helps medical professionals learn how to deal with rare, life-threatening injuries…

A High-tech Simulator Helps USF Teach Athletic Trainers

WUSF 89.7 FM

“Most of these people out here today have only practiced a couple times,” said Micki Cuppett, director of USF’s Athletic Training Education, “and so the more times we can get them to practice, the better they’re going to be if the situation ever arose that they would have to provide resuscitation on the field.”

USF Study Shows Targeted Workouts Might Protect Firefighters From Injuries

FireFighting News.com‎

The University of South Florida won a federal grant worth more than $700000 to see how an exercise routine targeting the back helps Tampa firefighters. The research involves about 100 firefighters from 21 Tampa Fire Rescue stations — half in a control…

Live longer and better in America’s Healthiest Hometown

The Villages Daily Sun

If Villagers are to live longer and healthier lives, it all begins with having convenient access to their own personal health information, says the University of South Florida’s Dr. Jay Wolfson.

Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite

Patch.com‎

Philip D. Shenefelt is a dermatologist and subject matter expert at the University of South Florida. In mid-May, a study from Canada alerted the medical community that bedbugs might carry pathogens…

Lehigh Valley campus to celebrate a century of service to region

Media Newswire (R&D Magazine)

Her hard work paid off as she graduated in May and was recently accepted to the first-ever class of a new medical education partnership between Lehigh Valley Health Network ( LVHN ) and the University of South Florida College of Medicine ( USFCOM)…

Expert on Alzheimer’s to Speak Today

The Ledger‎

Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, founding director of the Eric Pfeiffer Suncoast Alzheimer’s Center at the University of South Florida, will be speaking in Lakeland at 3:30 pm today on “The Art of Caregiving in Alzheimer’s.” Pfeiffer, emeritus professor of…

Is Google making us dumber?

MyFox Tampa Bay‎

Dr. Afield is a brain expert and one of the founders of USF’s College of Medicine. He says the findings shouldn’t be considered negative. “It is not dumbing us down, it’s not messing with our brains. You have to have the basic fundamental knowledge…

Getting teens more sleep

Tampa Tribune

Here are suggestions from Mac Anderson, program director for the University of South Florida’s Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program and director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Tampa General Hospital. Find out when your teen is going to sleep — not…

Classes too early for teens?

MyFox Tampa Bay‎

Dr. Robert Geck, who practices Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at TGH and USF, says high school kids “do” need to sleep in. “Their hormones, their sleep hormones, their brain is actually programmed to sleep better, later and to sleep in…

I-Team: Doctors Accused of drug Trafficking Continue to Treat Patients

ABC Action News

Doctors have a special place in society, and with good reason. They save lives. The vast majority of doctors have no disciplinary problems and work hard every day to help their patients…County Sheriff s Office says they are currently investigating his clinic. USF professor and health law expert Dr. Jay Wolfson says the process…

Dirty Air: Florida Ranks Third Worst for Power Plant Generated Toxic Air

St. Petersburg Times

A new report out by the National Resources Defense Council lists Florida as the third worst states for toxic air pollution in the nation, making the list as one of the nation’s Toxic 20….families,” said Lynn Ringenberg, a pediatrician at the University of South Florida and founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility. “Air…

Pasco Is Facing A School Nurse Shortage

Patch.com‎

The University of South Florida/Ronald McDonald health care unit and Florida Vision Mobile unit (funded by the Glazer Family Foundation) are mobile units that visit schools on a regular basis. Last year, 233 pairs of free eyeglasses were given to…

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Dr. Edwards weighs in on whether obese kids should be taken from their parents on Fox 13

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/health/should-obese-kids-be-taken-from-parents-07132011

Dr. Kyle discusses mosquito control on ABC Action News

http://www.criticalmention.com/report/11160×224471.htm

Dr. Wolfson talks about hospital acquired infection rates on ABC Action News

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/local_news/federal-report-highlights-hospitals-that-are-making-people-sick

Attacking Ataxia – Medstar TV

http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/2011_medstar_ataxia.asx

Tracking Dancer Injuries – Medstar TV

http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/2011_medstar_dancers.asx

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Sarasota heart patients could regrow their own tissue

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

“We believe we can be one of the leaders that people talk about, in gene and stem cell therapy and personalized health,” said Stephen Klasko, dean of the College of Medicine.

Physician Spotlight – Neil A. Fenske, MD

Tampa Bay Medical News

“I’m a guy who came up the hard way,” said Fenske, chairman of the Department of Dermatology & Cutane­ous Surgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa.

USF study shows targeted workouts might protect firefighters from injuries

Tampa Tribune

Tampa Fire Rescue District Chief Toby Hart demonstrates some of the different exercises utilized in a University of South Florida study researching prevention of lower back pain in about 100 firefighters…

Fla. University to Study Firefighter Exercising

Firehouse.com‎

The University of South Florida won a federal grant worth more than $700000 to see how an exercise routine targeting the back helps Tampa firefighters. The research involves about 100 firefighters from 21 Tampa Fire Rescue stations — half in a control…

Young Adults With Asperger’s Cope Differently Growing Up

HealthyState.org

DeMarco’s teacher is an example of what can go wrong when people are diagnosed with a developmental disorder, according to Karen Berkman, PhD, executive director of the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of South Florida. …

New developments in elder care, research to affect South County

Observer News‎

Meanwhile, as the population ages, more and more people get some form of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, said Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, former director of the Suncoast Gerontology Center at the University of South Florida.

How to Measure Secondhand Smoke Exposure in a Pediatric Clinic Setting

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Divisions of Pulmonology (Drs Couluris and Schnapf and Ms Casey) and Epidemiology (Mss Xu and Gross-King and Dr Krischer), Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa.

Coffee repels Alzheimer’s: Study

The Journal Gazette

“Caffeinated coffee provides a natural increase in blood GCSF levels,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Chuanhai Cao, of the university’s Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute. “The exact ways that this occurs is not understood.”

Is job stress making President Barack Obama go gray?

St. Petersburg Times (Lexis Nexis)

“It’s a controversial topic and there are several theories,” said Dr. Mary Lien, a dermatologist and assistant professor in the department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of South Florida. One theory holds that stress produces …

The Best Coffee For Your Brain

MSN Health & Fitness (Mason City Globe Gazette‎)

But rather than guzzling down super-caffeinated drinks such as Red Bull or taking stay-awake caffeine pills such as NoDoz, researchers at the University of South Florida say coffee might be the way to go. A new study points not to caffeine but rather…

Sertoli cells show promise for therapeutics

‎Nanotechnology News (EurekAlert

, News-Medical Net, MediLexicon)

The USF study tested the delivery of an anti-inflammatory compound to the deep lungs of animals modeled with pulmonary inflammation and found a “high…

Therapeutic Potential of Human Sertoli Cells

MedIndia (Innovations Report)

In a study seeking a better way to get medication to lower lung areas, such as to the alveoli and other areas difficult to reach and in which to retain therapeutics, University of South Florida (USF) researchers report that rat Sertoli cells loaded…

Embryonic Stem Cells Used in New Model for Studying Germ Cell Tumors in Testes

MediLexicon

…by transplanting embryonic stem cells into the seminiferous tubules in mouse models, resulting in the development of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) that mimic…Instructor at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida.

Neural Stem Progenitor Cell Transplantation’s Potential To Aid Spinal Cord Injury Tested

MediLexicon

…in animal models of spinal cord injury (SCI) has demonstrated that intralesional (IL) injection conferred benefits over intravenous injection (IV coeditor-in-chief of Cell Transplantation and executive director of the University of South Florida Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair…

Study Tests Neural Stem Progenitor Cell Transplantation’s Potential to Aid Spinal Chord Injury

MedIndia‎

…cell transplantation directly into the lesion site after spinal cord injury” said Dr. Paul Sanberg, coeditor-in-chief of Cell Transplantation and executive director of the University of South Florida Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair…

Embryonic Stem Cells Incorporated in New Model for Studying Germ Cell Tumors in Testes

MedIndia‎

…the development of an animal model of testicular germ cell tumor formation” said Dr. David Eve, associate editor of Cell Transplantation and Instructor at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida…

New model for studying germ cell tumors in testes enlists embryonic stem cells

EurekAlert‎

…the development of an animal model of testicular germ cell tumor formation” said Dr. David Eve, associate editor of Cell Transplantation and Instructor at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida…

Jackson Lab pursuing research partnership in New York

Sarasota Herald-Tribune‎

Jackson’s partners in Sarasota County would have been the University of South Florida and Sarasota Memorial Hospital. “We understand Florida’s budget situation, and we will turn our attention to other priorities,” Jackson executive vice president…

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Find Hope, Support in Nonprofit

Patch.com

Truman’s mother was eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at USF’s Memory Disorders Clinic. “When you hear that diagnosis, you just want to sit down for days; it really hits you,” Truman said. “It confirms what you didn’t want to believe but knew was…

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USF Nursing Students Begin Training at Sarasota Memorial Hospital

The Maddux Report

A unique feature of the USF College of Nursing Clinical Collaborative model is that students learn essential nursing skills in a one-on-one mentorship under the guidance of an experienced SMH nurse preceptor and clinical faculty.

Coffee the Anti-Dementia Drink – But You Need 5 Cups A Day

AARP

That’s right. A new University of South Florida study says that a component in coffee that interacts with the drink’s caffeine appears to help protect the brain against the devastating, memory-robbing disease.

Stillbirths tied to secondhand smoke

International News Network

“This is huge,” said Dr. Hamisu Salihu, an expert on stillbirth at the University of South Florida in Tampa. “We can now inform patients that exposure to secondhand smoke means they can lose their baby.”

Sunscreen claims demystified

The Original Vermont Observer (two other sources (Brattleboro Reformer (AP), The Berkshire Eagle (AP))

“It’s long overdue,” said Dr. Neil Fenske, chair of the department of dermatology at the University of South Florida, of the new regulations. “This is very good common-sense information for both manufacturers and the public.”

Align expectations with your child’s temperament

The St. Petersburg Times

Dr. Peter A. Gorski, M.P.A., is a child development expert at the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County, a pediatrician and a professor of pediatrics, public health and psychiatry at the University of South Florida.

What’s your right to know?

ActionNewsJax.com

“The intent of the law was to give people access to their own health care records so that they could take action to protect their interests in the future,” said Dr. Jay Wolfson, a medical ethicist and professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Parkinson’s Drug Hope

WSOCTV.com

Robert Hauser, M.D., MBA, Neurologist/Researcher with the University of South Florida Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center in Tampa says, for many patients, Levodopa initially works well to reduce symptoms of Parkinson’s.

Food for thought: Vitamins that keep your brain young

WTOC.com

“The key is to try to get these nutrients from whole foods whenever possible, because they can act synergistically,” says Paula Bickford, a doctor of pharmacology and professor in the department of neurosurgery and brain repair at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

Charles B. Slonim MD Installed as FSO President-Elect

Business Wire (including 21 other sources TMCnet.com, iStockAnalyst, …)

Dr. Slonim is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa and a Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Dendritic Spines Respond to Stress

Medscape‎

Ronald F. Mervis, PhD, from the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, told delegates that the dendritic arbor of a typical neuron makes up over 95% of the volume of the neuron…

Drinking green tea may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease

Food Consumer‎

The study led by Natasa Dragicevic of University of South Florida and colleagues shows that plant-based flavonoids and other bioactive chemicals like Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) and luteolin helped improve in vitro some biomarkers associated with…

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Dr. Adewale Troutman discusses new graphic warning images on cigarette packaging

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Dr. Chuanhai Cao discusses new research showing coffee may protect against Alzheimer’s disease

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USF seeking medical students nicer than ‘House’

The Tampa Tribune

She’s now one of the first 19 students in what USF calls its SELECT program. It’s the result of an idea medical college Dean Stephen Klasko began working on 15 years ago, while he was earning a masters of business administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Coffee may protect against Alzheimer’s disease, study finds

The Los Angeles Times (including more than 70 additional news outlets: The Miami Herald, The St. Petersburg Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, My Fox Tampa Bay, The Baltimore Sun, Medical News Today, Science Daily, Red Orbit, Psych Central, Eureka Science News, My Health News Daily, News-Medical)

Researchers at the University of South Florida say there’s a mystery ingredient in coffee that could protect coffee drinkers against Alzheimer’s disease. Using mice bred with symptoms that mimic Alzheimer’s disease…

Evaluating Your Health

The Villages Daily Sun

Tuesday’s lecture featured Donna Petersen, senior associate vice president, USF dean of the College of Public Health, who spoke on the topic “How Healthy am I and What Can I do About it?”

Silver Alert

WUSF

Officials with the USF Memory Disorders Clinic are working with the state trying to raise attention among both the public and law enforcement about a tool that can protect people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia who may wander off, putting themselves into danger.

Solution for Jackson Memorial may be found in Tampa

The Miami Herald

“When I think of Jackson, the image that comes to mind is Jabba the Hutt,” says Jay Wolfson, a public health professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, likening the system to the blob-like monster of Star Wars that consumed everything around it.

USF Doc Works On New Melanoma Vaccine Research

83 Degrees Media

Dr. Douglas Reintgen, professor of surgery at USF Health was the local principal investigator for the study, which tested a vaccine for advanced melanoma supplemented by immunotherapy drug interleukin-2.

Application for iPhone may help monitor Parkinson’s disease

Medical Express

Future developments will include the addition of several other Parkinson’s related tests and investigation of gait analysis in a joint effort with the University of South Florida and the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital…

Getting mellow, with just a few sips

My Fox Tampa Bay

“These have some valerian root extract, some lemon balm, chamomile; some things that you find in a lot of the herbal sections,” explained Dr. Denise Edwards of USF. “So that might help you relax but there’s no guarantee…

Cause & defect: Docs see links, but state officials say it costs too much to investigate

The Wisconsin State Journal (Capital Newspapers)

Researchers suspect gastroschisis is more prevalent in rural areas, but no large studies have confirmed or refuted that, said Russell Kirby, a health statistics expert at the University of South Florida…

Tracking Dance Injuries

WSOC Charlotte

At the University of South Florida, professors of dance and physical therapy have collaborated and developed the “Dancer Wellness Project.” Physical therapy students are learning how to screen college dance students…

Florida Medical School Launches ‘Business of Medicine Boot Camp’ for Students

American College of Physician Executives

“Being a doctor in 2011 is so much more than just learning the microbiology and biochemistry and ob-gyn and cardiology,” said Klasko, who earned his MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Dose Of Healthy Tips And Choices For Men

Patch.com

She is an associate professor in community and family health at the USF College of Public Health. “Prevention is something that should start in childhood and continue through adolescence into the adult years,” she says…

USF launches HIV study and testing initiative for Hispanic adolescents

HealthCanal.com

The University of South Florida Department of Pediatrics is conducting an innovative study for youth, ages 13 to 24, who may be HIV infected but are undiagnosed and not showing symptoms. Researchers will target Latino men…

Feeling Cold From Not Eating Many Calories

Livestrong.com

Following such a diet can cause cold intolerance, fatigue, hair loss and gallstone development, according to the University of South Florida’s Dr. Robert Campbell…

USF Clinic Receives Cardinal Health Grant

Tampa Bay Business Journal (including more than 20 additional news outlets: Columbus Business First, Cincinnati Business Journal, Dayton Business Journal, The Sacramento Bee)

USF Health USF Health Follow this company BRIDGE Clinic in Tampa was awarded $35,000 in funding through the Cardinal Health E3 Grant Program to help fund an electronic medical records system, according to a press statement….

Rates of US Mammography Screening Improved by Community Health Worker Interventions

MediLexicon (Red Orbit, The Medical News, Science Daily, PhysOrg.com, Health News)

“Our systematic study points to the fact that community health workers play an important role in helping medically underserved women obtain screening mammograms,” said lead author Kristen Wells, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at the USF Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Health Outcomes Research.

Intense Therapy for Stroke Patients Provide Long-Term Results

Rehab Management

David Decker, MD, a stroke specialist with the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, said he sees many patients who do well if they continue their rehab…

Study shows stroke victims benefit from physical therapy, even if it’s delayed

The East Valley Herald Tribune (The Republic, The Herald Net)

Dr. David Decker, a stroke specialist with the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, said he sees many patients who do well if they continue their rehab. He hopes the study changes attitudes about stroke recovery…

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A City Tries to Slim Down

The New York Times (The Lakeland Ledger, Top News United States, Rocket News)

“It turns my stomach, the push for using food stamps for fast-food purchase,” said Dr. Adewale Troutman, director of the public health practice at the University of South Florida…

Louisville’s new health director to focus on care disparities, healthy lifestyles

The Desert Sun (The Jackson Sun, The Courier-Journal)

… Department of Public Health & Wellness in mid-July, succeeding Dr. Adewale Troutman, who left in November for a job at the University of South Florida‘s College of Public Health…

Developing Physician Leaders

Health Leaders Media

Yet the University of South Florida College of Medicine and Lehigh Valley Health Network are enthralled with the possibilities: The partnership could be pioneering…

Confused by sunscreen claims? There’s help on the way

The St. Petersburg Times (Bay News 9)

“It’s long overdue,” said Dr. Neil Fenske, chair of the department of dermatology at the University of South Florida, of the new regulations. “This is very good…

How To Stay Safe In The Sun

Patch.com

Additionally, we talked to Neil Fenske, a physician and Chief of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of South Florida. He confirmed that he is seeing younger women with more lesions than he had in the early days of his practice…

10 relationship lessons father learned from daughter

The St. Petersburg Times

Peter A. Gorski, M.D., M.P.A., is a child development expert at the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County, a pediatrician and a professor of pediatrics, public health and psychiatry at the University of South Florida.

Size of key brain region linked to size of your social network

Heartland News

The amygdala has also been shown to be involved with fear, emotion and even seizures, said Paul Sanberg, director of the University of South Florida Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair in Tampa.

Study Results from University of South Florida College of Medicine in the Area of Asthma Published

News RX

Other experimental IT approaches are at the preclinical research stage and may proceed to clinical trials and the clinic within the next five to ten years,” wrote S.S. Mohapatra and colleagues, University of South Florida College of Medicine.

For stroke victims, intense therapy provides long-term gains, study shows

The St. Petersburg Times

Dr. David Decker, a stroke specialist with the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, said he sees many patients who do well if they continue their rehab…

Prostate cancer drug’s painful price

My Fox Tampa Bay

That’s a big piece of the future of medicine,” says Jay Wolfson, professor at USF’s College of Public Health and Medicine. Wolfson is also the Director of the Suncoast Center…

Continued Progress

Gulf Coast Business Review

…downtown significantly. There s more to come, with the construction of USF s new Center for Advanced Medical Learning now under way. Three past…

Lab leaves, taking jobs with it

St. Petersburg Times

It partnered with the University of South Florida on a plan and in 2010 persuaded the Legislature to set aside $50 million to start the project in Collier County. Then this past fall, amid the election’s tea party fervor, the community balked at coming…

Former Miss America Nicole Johnson champion for diabetes awareness

Villages Daily Sun‎

Johnson is working on her doctorate in public health at the University of South Florida. But her connection with USF Health goes much deeper than that. She’s also part of The Villages-USF Health partnership that is seeking to make The Villages…

Jay Beeber: Folk Hero Stops L.A.’s Red Light Cameras

LA Weekly

One expert Beeber contacted, Dr. Barbara Langland-Orban of the University of South Florida, found in a 2008 study that red-light cameras increase accidents because drivers see the camera and slam on their brakes. Langland-Orban says, “Jay has worked …

MKM Partners Hires Biotechnology/Specialty Pharmaceuticals Analyst

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Dr. LeCroy holds an MBA from Boston University’s Graduate School of Management, an MD from University of South Florida College of Medicine…

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The Refuseniks

Time Magazine

“Cancer receives a special status,” says Dr. Vic Velanovich, the director of general surgery at the University of South Florida. “Unlike with any other disease, the federal government declared a war on cancer, so with all this effort, how could you possibly refuse treatment?”

Sunday’s letters: Culture matters in medicine

St. Petersburg Times

I was delighted to read University of South Florida College of Medicine dean Stephen Klasko’s piece about the next generation of “good doctors.” I was especially struck by the focus on training doctors to learn from group analysis of a medical problem…

Desperate families turn to unproven stem cell treatment

St. Petersburg Times

“Any disease that involves replacing, repairing, regenerating tissues in the body should be able to be helped” by stem cell therapy, said Paul Sanberg, executive director of the University of South Florida Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair.

Tampa General Hospital challenges HCA trauma plans

The Tampa Tribune

Tampa General Hospital and hospital chain HCA are battling over HCA’s expansion plans for the area in a dispute that could spread to the University of South Florida’s medical college and health practice.

When a seizure isn’t caused by epilepsy
Epilepsy USA, issue 2, pg 7
“Neurologists don’t know how to treat these patients,” says Selim Benbadis, a neurologist and Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital…

Alzheimer’s Awareness: USF Health experts speak with caregivers

The Villages Daily Sun

Dr. Amanda Smith, medical director of the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, started the seminar, which was the institute’s first time presenting the program in The Villages.

9 Things That Make Allergies Worse

ABC News 

Avoid alcohol when your symptoms are acting up, says Richard F. Lockey, MD, director of the division of allergy and immunology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. According to the FDA, 2011 is shaping up to…

Tampa woman says gastric bypass hypnosis helps lose weight without the actual surgery

ABC Action News‎

He and his team at USF and TGH have performed weight loss surgery on more than 3, 500 patients. “We have long term data that shows most patients that go through our program lose about 50 to 60 percent of the excess weight that they carry and that’s a …

Homespun Cures For Summertime Ouchies

Patch.com 

USF Department of Dermatology If you’re anything like me, you know that when you really need something, it’s nowhere to be found in your home. I’m constantly asking the neighbors for a cup of sugar or running to the store in the middle of baking a new…

Trauma Troubles: Florida Trauma Center Fight

WCTV‎

HCA also announced a partnership last year with USF Health, which includes medical programs at the University of South Florida, to form a trauma network. At the time, HCA Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Perlin said getting patients to trauma centers…

Data on IPX066 ADVANCE-PD and APEX-PD Phase III Studies to be Presented at the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Conference

Pharmiweb.com

Presenter: Robert A. Hauser, MD, Professor of Neurology, Molecular Pharmacology, and Physiology and Director of the Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Center at the University of South Florida…

Life-saving test for babies cut by governor

10 Connects 

Dr. John Sleasman, a USF professor and an immunologist at All Children’s Hospital, also finds the veto hard to understand. “I was a little baffled,” he says. Sleasman says the screening not only saves lives but, in the long run, it would also save the…

Conference to address health and security implications of global water management

PhysOrg.com

The challenges and opportunities of sustaining a safe global water supply will be the focus of a University of South Florida College of Public Health conference bringing together international experts from academia, government, the military…

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Creating the good doctor

St. Petersburg Times

I am proud to say that today in 2011, USF Health is leading the charge for training 21st century leaders through a program we call SELECT (Scholarly Excellence, Leadership Experiences, Collaborative Training.)

New USF medical school program is a sound solution

St. Petersburg Times

Medical school dean Stephen Klasko is no longer arguing for USF to build its own hospital on the Tampa campus. The university instead is launching new research and training programs.

Could eye movements be key to PTSD treatment?

The Tampa Tribune

The therapy came to the attention of USF researchers thanks to the mother of Kevin Kip, head of research for the College of Nursing.

Kip says his mother knew he was looking for “novel methods” to treat psychological trauma. A few years ago, she read an article in a Connecticut newspaper and forwarded it to Kip.

With funding tight, how much will Jackson Lab settle for?

Sarasota Herald-Tribune ‎

On May 18, the lab’s board of trustees met with Hansen, University of South Florida President Judy Genschaft and Stephen Klasko, senior vice president in charge of USF Health. The university is Jackson’s academic partner. The board “authorized us to go…

Many Popular Tampa Bay Fish Rate High for Mercury

St. Petersburg Times

Every chance he gets, car salesman Jason Percy of Lakeland grabs his fishing spear and heads for the waters beneath the Sunshine Skyway to catch his dinner….out there,” he said. Ira Richards, a toxicologist at the University of South Florida’s Center for Public Health, agreed that people shouldn’t…

Seizures: The Next Level of Care: The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center

Epilepsy.com

by Selim R. Benbadis, MD – Professor and Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program -  Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery, University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital

Parkinson’s 101

Studio 10 TV

Knowing the symptoms of Parkinson’s If you have questions about Parkinson’s disease, the USF Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Center invites you to join them for Parkinson’s 101 tomorrow afternoon…

I Team: Ignoring Patient’s Right to Know

CBS Miami

“The intent of the law was to give people access to their own health care records so that they could take action to protect their interests in the future,” said Dr. Jay Wolfson, a medical ethicist and professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Darien Mother of Child With Angelman Syndrome Gives Voice to Silent ‘Angels’

Check Orphan

Angelman syndrome is a rare disorder, but a cure is in sight. With the help of her organization, FAST, Paula Evans hopes to raise the money to make it happen….culprit. Weeber, director of the Murine Neurobehavior Laboratory at the University of South Florida, discovered three years ago how to restore that…

Healthcare Mobile Apps Made Easy
Health Leaders Media
Richard Oehler, MD, … director of clinical education for the division of infectious diseases and international medicine at University of South Florida, co-developed a smartphone app in 2009 later formatted to be iPad-compatible in 2010…

Doctors will now ask kids about Facebook

MyFox Tampa Bay (St. Petersburg Times, LexisNexis)

“Their stance is sort of innovative I think, as far as taking a move in the right direction in recognizing new technology,” said Tampa General and USF Pediatrician John McCormick. “With every year we do this, it gets more and more important…

$5 million gift will play major role

NewsChief.com

“Thanks to this gift, USF Poly will be working with USF Health to invite partners across the region to build a Health Information Exchange.”

Would Jackson Lab spawn other job-creators?

Sarasota Herald-Tribune‎ (Orlando Sentinel) 

The University of South Florida, Jackson’s proposed academic partner, is nearby in Tampa, and Sarasota Memorial Hospital, which wants to work with Jackson and USF on clinical trials, is one of the largest public hospital systems in the nation…

Motivations are murky for people trying to spread AIDS … and murkier for …

St. Petersburg Times

Dr. Todd Wills, associate professor of infectious diseases at USF, came on the line. “They’re out there,” Wills said. “We can’t say what the numbers are because the evidence is not data driven, but anecdotal.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the…

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What outdoor games will get my kids moving?

The Tampa Tribune

Dr. Curtwright is coordinator of the Social Communication Skills Clinic at the USF Health Silver Child Development Center

College of Medicine faces uncertainty in resident placement at All Children’s – The Oracle

The Oracle

Associate Dean for COM Charles Paidas said while many students are attracted to USF’s pediatrics program due to their ACH partnership, the primary focus of the conversations that take place between ACH and USF is on education.

Ledford elected president of medical academy

Tampa Tribune

At USF, he works as part of the medical team that supervises the allergy and … He also has been recognized as an outstanding teacher by USF medical house …

Physician Spotlight: Paula C. Bickford, PhD

Medical News, Manatee-Sarasota

As professor in the University of South Florida’s Department of Neurosurgery, Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, and as the senior research career scientist at the James A. Haley Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tampa, Bickford’s reputation for finding therapies for brain disease has gone global.

Red-light cameras are given the green light

The Gainesville Sun

But Barbara Langland-Orban, an associate professor of health policy and management at the University of South Florida who studied the issue, said there is little evidence to suggest that the cameras will have the desired impact.

Yale and Rush University scientists receive Sanberg Awards from ASNTR

NEWSRX

The award is named for Bernard Sanberg, father of Dr. Paul Sanberg (University of South Florida), who is a co-founder of the ASNTR.

Medical People

‎The Ledger

Barden, retired from Watson Clinic, works with the University of South Florida and LVIM. Dr. John Canto, cardiologist, has received the Lakeland Volunteers…

Been Spending Time in the Sun? Check Out Prevention, Planning and …

‎Patch.com

…cause for concern, in addition to Neil Fenske, a physician and Chief of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of South Florida….

Social marketing in public health conference adds emphasis on environmental issues

PhysOrg.com ‎(FirstScience.org, Enterprise Post News)

Public health, marketing and environmental science professionals from across the world will gather June 17 and 18, 2011, for the University of South Florida’s 21st Annual Social Marketing in Public Health Conference at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in…

Counting Calories Inadequate for Sustained Weight Loss

News Blaze (4-Traders.com)

…He also founded Integrative Health Resources, a natural products industry education and consulting company. He formerly served as an adjunct associate professor at Cincinnati College of Pharmacy and currently serves as Adjunct Professor in Metabolic Medicine at the University of South Florida Medical School…

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Developer Mark Morse touts USF Health partnership, home values and exciting retail opportunities in annual VHA address

The Villages Daily Sun

Morse then turned his attention to health care and The Villages’ new partnership with USF Health of Tampa. “They really believe in what’s happening here; that’s why they’re here,” Morse said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for us to leave a legacy.”

Burn Notice: How to Protect Yourself from the Sun

Patch.com (a product of AOL.com)

I sat down with Neil Fenske, a physician at USF for 33 years and the Chief of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery. He says sun exposure can pose an array of health risks. Simple measures such as wearing a wide-brimmed hat, slathering on sun protective lotion with a sun-protective factor (SPF) of at least 30, and wearing sunglasses that block at least 99 percent of UVA radiation, can make a huge difference in protecting your skin.

Ex-LVH chief taking lead role in Florida study

Allentown Morning Call‎

Sussman’s new duties have him working with another prominent former LVH physician, Dr. Stephen Klasko, now dean of the College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. The two are part of a team of researchers who are undertaking what will be a…

$69.7B budget shares the pain

Tampa Tribune

Tampa General, the primary teaching hospital for the University of South Florida Medical School, also may have to reduce its staff of medical residents, Short said. “I hear a lot of complaints about, we haven’t done this, or we haven’t done that,” said…

Alzheimer’s Disease – Key To Preventing Memory Loss & Dementia Discovered

Star Global Tribune‎

The Bay Pines VA/USF team decided to look at the effects of cotinine, the major byproduct of nicotine metabolism, in Alzheimer’s disease mice. Cotinine is nontoxic and longer lasting than nicotine. Furthermore, its safety has already been demonstrated…

PaperFree Florida Lists SuccessEHS as a Qualified Vendor

Sacramento Bee‎ (DigitalJournal.com, SYS-CON Media, PR Newswire, EMR Daily News)     

PaperFree Florida is a Regional Extension Center (REC) affiliated with the University of South Florida, USF Health and Healthy Ocala among others. PaperFree Florida operates under a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)…

Tampa’s Table Setter

Gulf Coast Business Review‎

His wife is Dr. Catherine Lynch Buckhorn, an OB/GYN and interim chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of South Florida Medical School. Tampa attorney Ron Weaver says about her: “You won’t find any better or smarter…

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Military Medical Simulator

WUSF – University Beat

As USF Health advances its position as a leader in medical simulation training with its new Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation, or CAMLS (scheduled to open soon in downtown Tampa), they recently showed off a new state-of-the-art tool.

Cuando la memoria se desvanece

CentroTampa.com

De acuerdo con el doctor Francisco Fernández, jefe del Departamento de Psiquiatría de la Universidad del Sur de Florida (USF), hay 10 señales que pueden advertir que alguien padece esta enfermedad,

Parent’s Talk: Children’s Health, Who To Trust

Patch.com

Richard F. Lockey, is a longtime physician who chairs the Department of Allergy and Immunology at USF Health. he also serves as president of the World Allergy Organization. USF Health Welcome to Woonsocket Patch’s weekly opinion column, Parents Talk!…

Don’t Scratch That Bug Bite

Patch.com‎

He is also an Associate Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of South Florida. He reviewed the symptoms and treatment of some insect and spider bites, offering tips for prevention. Mosquito bites are the most common…

Jackson and foundation push ahead in Sarasota

Sarasota-Herald Tribune

Jackson already has presented staffers of Gov. Rick Scott with the basic case for the institute — part of a proposed “biomedical village” — in which Jackson would work with the University of South Florida and Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

USF searching for Parkinson’s patients for study

Washington Examiner (Including an additional 15 news outlets: WESH Orlando, WPBF West Palm Beach, 10 Connects, Naples Daily News, WCTV, Ocala)

AP The University of South Florida is looking to recruit people with Parkinson’s disease for a study being sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. USF is one of 16 centers participating. The study aims to find the elusive biomarkers for Parkinson’s…

Alzheimer’s-related protein disrupts motors of cell transport

ScienceBlog.com (Eureka! Science News, Bioscience Technology)

USF Health is dedicated to creating a model of health care based on understanding the full spectrum of health. It includes the University of South Florida‘s colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Pharmacy, the School of Biomedical Sciences…

Stillbirths tied to secondhand smoke: study

Science Magazine Daily News

…one extra baby would die in the womb for every 117 women exposed.”This is huge,” said Dr. Hamisu Salihu, an expert on stillbirth at the University of South Florida in Tampa. “We can now inform patients that exposure to secondhand smoke means they can lose their baby”…

Stillbirth passive smoking link confirmed

Hc2D

Hamisu Salihu, a stillbirth expert at the University of South Florida in the US, who was not involved in the study, said that doctors would now have reason to tell patients that secondhand smoke could kill their babies…

Alzheimer’s protein ‘contributes to memory loss’

Barchester Healthcare‎ (PsychCentral.com, Medical News Today, Scicasts.com, News-Medical.net, Science Daily)

The protein was found to clog several motors of the cell transport machinery which are vital in cell division, according to the University of South Florida research. Additionally, research published in journal Cell Cycle revealed that the protein beta…

Diabetes Advocacy Alliance to Raise Awareness of the Costs, Complications, and Potential Solutions to Predicted Diabetes Epidemic
The Business Journals (PR Newswire)

The session will feature a distinguished panel of experts that will be moderated by former Miss America Nicole Johnson, MA, MPH, Executive Director, University of South Florida‘s “Bringing Science Home.” …

Fiesta will aid USF autism center

Tampa Tribune

Celebrating its sixth year, this fundraiser will benefit the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of South Florida, which serves children in Pasco and Hillsborough counties and surrounding areas. Recently, CARD-USF partnered…

Tobacco compound seen helping with memory

Suncoast News‎

Researchers with Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Healthcare and the University of South Florida last week announced they have found a compound derived from tobacco that may help memories of Alzheimer’s disease patients. Cotinine, they say, reduces plaques…

Establishing the first line of human embryonic stem cells in Brazil

eBioNews

…problems of tumor development, cell rejection due to histo-incompatibility, and contamination with animal products employed in the cell culture need to be overcome,” …Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, College of Medicine, the University of South Florida…

Pioneer in Regenerative Medicine for Neurodegenerative Disorders Receives Everfront Award at Stemcell Conference in Taiwan

eBioNews

Dr. Paul Sanberg, Distinguished University Professor and senior associate vice president for research and innovation at the University of South Florida, received the Everfront Award at the 4th Pan Pacific…

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Tobacco derivative shows promise in Alzheimer’s study

St. Petersburg Times (also included in more than 15 additional news outlets: Tampa Tribune, Florida Trend, ThirdAge, Medical News Today, Truth Dive, Sify, News-Medical Net, Daily India, ScienceBlog.com; EurekAlert, Physorg.com; Eureka! Science News)

Smoking is the biggest preventable cause of death, but University of South Florida researchers believe a substance produced from tobacco leaves could stave off another killer…

Yoga helps heal 70-year-old woman’s bulimia

Tampa Tribune

She brought together three yoga studios to host a free yoga class April 10 in downtown Tampa’s Curtis Hixon Park with the idea of bringing attention to USF Hope House for Eating Disorders, which offers free support groups and outpatient services…

National Experts in the Neurosciences Headline Speaker Roster for CME …

American Banking News‎

CME Credit (Physicians): USF Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. USF Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 23.0 AMA PRA Category 1…