USF students from the International Health Services Collaborative (IHSC) recently returned from an intensive weeklong service project in the community of Villas del Carmen, Panama. The IHSC team of 21 students from the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, and the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences worked together to develop sustainable health projects in underserved communities of Panama. In order to improve the sustainability of the project, the IHSC partnered with the Panamanian Ministry of Health. Dr. Aleyda Tejeira and Dr. Angel Alonzo, the Regional Directors of […]

First-year medical student Grace Tidwell was intrigued when she heard about a program in which she could help raise funds for building affordable housing by riding a bicycle across the country. Grace Tidwell Called Bike & Build, the non-profit group raises money for and helps construct affordable housing for low-income families by hosting bike rides each year. Tidwell applied for and was competitively selected to make the 3,588-mile, two-month-plus-long journey, which left from North Carolina May 13.   Along the route, Tidwell and others in her riding group will stop about […]

Dr. Neil Alan Fenske, chairman of USF Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery was recognized for his duties and commitment as the outgoing President of the Noah Worcester Dermatological Society.  Dr. Fenske received the award honoring his year-long presidential service at the society’s 53rd Annual Meeting held April 6 to 10 in  Austin, TX .  Dr Fenske has been a member of the society since 1992. Dr. Neil Fenske The Noah Worcester Dermatological Society’s objective is to nurture a small national dermatological organization characterized by scientific programs of high caliber and close association among its members. The […]

Tips to Reduce Wandering in People with Alzheimer’s Disease… Tampa, FL (May 9, 2011) – The University of South Florida Memory Disorder Clinic will host two sessions Friday, May 13, to inform the public, senior service providers and local law enforcement officials about the Florida Silver Alert program.  Enacted by former Gov. Charlie Crist in 2008, Silver Alert is a statewide coordinated messaging system that uses roadside signs and media notifications to help find people 60 or older with dementia who disappear in a vehicle. The same session will be […]

Her ground-breaking research in several areas related to aging has earned Paula Bickford, PhD, the 2011 Denham Harman Research Award from the American Aging Association. Dr. Bickford, professor of neurosurgery in the USF Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair and in the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, has focused her research on Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and herbal medicine, working to understand the behavioral, cellular, molecular, and genetic components of aging, putting a major focus on testing therapies for age-related diseases. “A lifetime achievement […]

Tampa, FL (April 20, 2011) — USF Health physicians from the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery will offer free first-come, first-serve skin cancer screenings to the public from 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 2, at the University of South Florida Medical Clinic, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd, Tampa, FL  33612. The American Academy of Dermatology designates the first Monday in May as Melanoma Monday, which kicks off Skin Cancer Awareness Month.  The purpose is to raise awareness about melanoma as a potentially deadly skin cancer and to […]

 Life and Limb: the Toll of the American Civil War, a traveling exhibition developed and curated by the National Library of Medicine will be on display at the Shimberg Health Sciences Library through April 30. The University of South Florida is the first university in the nation to host the national exhibit, which will tour across the country this year – the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Of the 3 million soldiers who fought in the war from 1861-1865, more than half a million died and nearly as many […]

Nine faculty members recently earned the College of Medicine’s inaugural Educational Excellence Awards, an honor presented to faculty by faculty. An interdisciplinary and inter-professional selection committee determined the winners, looking only at those faculty members who demonstrate innovative teaching and education scholarship. Teaching may be in undergraduate medical/DPT/Athletic Training education, graduate student education, and/or graduate clinical (resident) education within the College of Medicine. The awards, which considers both junior and senior faculty, are supported by the COM Office of Educational Affairs. “The nomination pool was robust and the caliber of […]

Tampa, FL (April 7, 2011) —  Annette Phelps, ARNP, MSN, family health services division director for the Florida Department of Health, has been named the Florida Outstanding Woman in Public Health for 2011 by the University of South Florida College of Public Health. The College bestows the award each year to a woman whose career accomplishments and leadership have contributed significantly to the field of public health in Florida. Phelps was honored during an awards ceremony April 6 at the Interdisciplinary Research Building in the USF Research Park. Annette Phelps, […]

David Rogoff will help shape the state’s public health workforce development to enhance disaster and emergency preparedness Tampa, FL (April 5, 2011) — David P. Rogoff, director of Hillsborough County’s Family and Aging Services Department, will join the University of South Florida College of Public Health to serve as Center Director for Public Health Preparedness and Training. He will begin the position in early May. The USF Center for Public Health Preparedness and Training that Rogoff will direct includes the Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center and the Florida Public […]