The USF Health Ybor Youth Clinic (YYC) is proud to announce successful completion of the Adolescent-Centered Environment Assessment Process (ACE-AP) and certification as a silver adolescent-centered health center; the first clinic in Florida to receive this designation. Funding for participation in this certification process was provided by the Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County’s Adolescent & Teen Health Program.

As part of a countywide initiative to improve teen access to health services and community resources, the program launched in 2019 and has led to the placement of an adolescent health navigator at the YYC, development of an online resource directory (www.TeenConnectTampaBay.org), formation of the Teen Connect Youth Advisory Board, and trainings for health care providers, parents, and youth-serving professionals to help advance the delivery of youth-friendly care.

The ACE-AP, developed and facilitated by the Adolescent Health Initiative out of the University of Michigan Medicine program, is a comprehensive self-assessment and guided improvement process designed to minimize barriers and improve the delivery of care to adolescents. The ACE-AP is comprehensive, spanning 12 key areas of adolescent-centered care, including adolescent best practices and standards of care, confidentiality, behavioral health practices, adolescent involvement and empowerment, and cultural responsiveness.

Opened in 2012, the Ybor Youth Clinic is a program in the Department of Pediatrics in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, and is staffed by health care providers from pediatrics, adolescent medicine, and infectious disease, among other specialties. The Clinic provides targeted health care and risk reduction services to youth (ages 13 to 24) and has earned several awards for its outreach, most recently the 2021 Excellence in Adolescent Health Award from the Adolescent Health Initiative.

“As the only clinic in our community specifically designed for youth, the Ybor Youth Clinic provides a safe, inclusive and non-judgmental environment for teens and young adults to access sexual and reproductive health services confidentially,” said Dr. Patricia Emmanuel, professor and chair, Department of Pediatrics in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. “This certification underscores the clinic’s ability to effectively respond to the changing healthcare system with innovative and collaborative approaches tailored to the unique needs of young people.”

“The Ybor Youth Clinic serves as an outstanding model of youth-centered care for our community,” said Jane Murphy, executive director, Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County. “We are honored to partner with the YYC and continue our work together to share best practices to improve access to health services and reduce barriers to care for youth and families.”

During adolescence, youth experience disproportionately high rates of sexually transmitted diseases, mental health issues, substance use, and unintentional injuries that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. Consequently, the health care needs of adolescents are unique from other patient populations. Young people may avoid accessing the services they need for various reasons including concerns around confidentiality, fear of judgment, and inconvenient hours and location.

Adolescent-centered environments effectively provide comprehensive services for adolescents, ensuring that they feel well cared for. An adolescent-centered environment is inclusive of, informed by, and responsive to the needs and values of adolescents.

Connecting Teens to Health Services and Resources.

Through the Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County’s Adolescent Health Initiative in partnership with Hillsborough County Public Schools, USF Health and youth-serving organizations, like the Ybor Youth Clinic, Teen Connect Tampa Bay was created to improve teen access to health services and community resources. Teen Connect is an online resource directory and referral database for teens and young adults that provides personalized services based on their individual needs.

As USF Health continues to rise in the ranks of elite academic medical centers, they have to keep enhancing their portfolio with quality programs for students, interns and fellows.  In April, they added a new program to their repertoire:  a newly accredited Pediatric Psychology Internship.

Heather Agazzi, PhD, USF Health psychology internship director and associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry, explained that one of the strengths of the program is that it’s housed within the USF Health academic medical center.  The program offers doctoral degree interns excellent training with academic medical center psychologists as well as the opportunity to collaborate on interdisciplinary teams with pediatricians, psychiatrists, and other health professionals.

Several supervisors of the program provide a “generalist” type of training in which interns learn to work with youth of all ages.  Interns also participate in specialized pediatric psychology rotations including assessment and intervention of children with developmental disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well as, disruptive behavior disorders, infant mental health and early childhood parent training interventions. The training in infant and early childhood mental health is unique to the USF Health psychology internship, as the opportunity to work with very young children is not often found in internships, Dr. Agazzi said.

“An accredited internship is a key component to strong clinical psychology training,” Dr. Agazzi said.  “It’s also instrumental in finding a great fellowship training. Having the accreditation shows that we have demonstrated our ability to adhere to all of the profession-wide competencies and to provide an outstanding training.”

The path to accreditation isn’t always smooth. Before her retirement, Kathleen Armstrong, PhD, former director of the USF Health Pediatric Psychology Program, started the application process for accreditation in 2016 with a $25,000 grant to help cover the cost of putting the application together.  When the American Psychological Association released a new application in 2018, Dr. Agazzi and her team were charged with completing the new self-study application.  In May 2019, Dr. Agazzi submitted the application, and on October 2019, the program had its site visit.  In April 2020, the program received official accreditation from the APA.

Dr. Patricia Emmanuel, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the Morsani College of Medicine, says the interdisciplinary nature in which we teach our students, interns and residents only enhances the experience and learning environment.

“It has been a goal of ours to integrate more behavioral health and have more psychological services for children,” Dr. Emmanuel said.  “Having an internship like this allows us to broaden the number of children we can offer this service to. Interdisciplinary collaboration has always been part of who we are at USF Health”

Dr. Agazzi and her team expect approximately 50 applicants in the upcoming selection year; these applicants compete for two full-time internship positions.  She and her team will conduct interviews in January, send match results in February, then welcome their second cohort of interns as an accredited program in August 2021.

Center connects pregnant women and their families, and the region’s medical professionals, to USF experts in preventing, diagnosing and treating the mosquito-borne virus

Zika virus can be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her baby during pregnancy.

The photos seen worldwide after the Zika epidemic gripped Brazil and spread across the Caribbean were compelling — depicting infants born full-term yet with small heads and blank stares, held by mothers with faces full of concern and resolve.

But when the Zika epidemic waned last summer, and the last of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) travel advisories to Miami-Dade lifted, these striking images of infants with microcephaly, one of the most severe potential neurological consequences of active Zika infection in pregnancy, faded into the background. So too did the ongoing news about how pregnant women could protect themselves from the mosquito-borne, birth-defect causing virus.

Still a threat

Florida should not forget the threat Zika poses and its unpredictability, USF Health experts said, noting that the virus still circulates in some countries, and travelers continue to return to the United States after visiting or living in areas at risk.

With vigilance in mind, USF Health recently contracted with the Florida Department of Health (DOH) to establish a Zika Referral Center.  Funded by $600,000 from the CDC through the Florida DOH, the three-year program launched in April. It connects patients and medical professionals with USF’s multidisciplinary team of experts skilled in providing diagnostic, treatment and prevention expertise to expectant mothers, fathers, newborns and infants affected by Zika.

Zika virus spreads through mosquito bites.

“Although there are some theories, we still don’t understand all the components of why congenital Zika syndrome burst onto the scene in Brazil in 2015. We do know pathogens are always evolving, so we need to maintain a heightened sense of alertness even when Zika cases decline,” said the center’s medical director Patricia Emmanuel, MD, chair of the Department of Pediatrics, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.

“We will use this CDC funding to educate pregnant women and their families about transmission of Zika and its potential long-term impact on their infants, and to ensure health care workers stay aware of potential exposure in their patients,” Dr. Emmanuel said. “Doing that can help us detect and follow Zika earlier in pregnancy, so we might better understand the full spectrum of the disease.”

The new center establishes on Florida’s West Coast a complement to the existing Zika Resource Team operating out of the University of Miami Health System since 2017.  (The first identified outbreak of mosquito-borne Zika virus infection in the continental United States occurred in Florida in Miami-Dade and Broward counties during summer 2016.)

A multidisciplinary Zika response team

The USF Health center’s Zika response team includes pediatricians, a perinatologist, an obstetrician, a clinical geneticist, a neurologist, an infectious disease consultant, and a newly recruited nurse practitioner who serves as program and case manager.

USF Health and the University of Miami will share prospective data collected, including numbers of expectant women tested for Zika infection and information on the growth and development of infants affected, Dr. Emmanuel said. Starting with Tampa General Hospital, the center’s staff will also provide training for obstetric and pediatric health professionals at regional hospitals in Hillsborough and surrounding counties, as well as health care consultations based on current CDC evidence-based practices and guidelines.

Not all pregnant women exposed to Zika will pass the infection to their developing fetus. But, the most worrisome risk for those who do is that their baby will be born with microcephaly, a serious condition characterized by an abnormally small brain and skull that can lead to seizures, feeding problems, developmental delays and impaired vision and hearing.

Stephanie Ros, MD, director of obstetric services for the Zika Referral Center, says USF Health has played a leading role caring for pregnant women affected by Zika and is equipped with the multidisciplinary expertise and resources to address the complexities of birth defects, including congenital Zika syndrome, before and after birth.

Ready to diagnose, manage women at risk and their babies

“Because the long-term effects of Zika can be so far reaching, no one medical professional possesses all the expertise to properly diagnose and manage every aspect,” said Dr. Ros, assistant professor of obstetrics who specializes in maternal fetal-medicine.  “At USF we can provide one centralized location for patient referrals, where our team remains up to date on the latest protocols for testing and has access to the appropriate tools to take care of women at risk and their babies.”

USF Health is equipped with the multidisciplinary expertise and resources to address the complexities of birth defects, including congenital Zika syndrome, before and after birth.

The USF Health Zika Referral Center is modeled after the highly effective USF Perinatal HIV Program, a collaboration between USF Health’s pediatric infectious disease experts and the regional perinatal community that delivers complex care to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus. In Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, no pregnant woman followed by this program has given birth to an HIV-infected baby since 2014, Dr. Emmanuel said.

“It’s a successful network that could be extended beyond Zika to other viral infections, such as hepatitis B or cytomegalovirus, which may seriously affect the health of newborns,” Dr. Emmanuel said.

For more information, visit health.usf.edu/medicine/pediatrics/zika-referral-center.

Over 80 supporters from the Tampa Bay area geared up in colorful basketball jerseys, striped knee-high socks and sneakers ready to put their know how to the test to support underserved, at-risk youth served by the USF Health Ybor Youth Clinic (YYC).

Held on Saturday, March 8, 2014, the first annual Ybor City Alley-oop for Youth, a basketball-themed scavenger hunt to raise funds for the USF Health Ybor Youth Clinic, was a slam-dunk!

“We thank the agencies, individuals and volunteers who came together to support the Ybor Youth Clinic – a much needed resource in our community. The event gave everyone a great opportunity to learn more about the YYC and to explore our historic neighborhood, Ybor City,” said Dr. Patricia Emmanuel, chair of the Department of Pediatrics and the Lewis A. Barness Professor of Pediatrics. USF Health Pediatrics supports the medical clinic staff at the YYC.

We had a full court press. Advocates from throughout Tampa Bay and USF’s mascot Rocky the Bull put their game faces on to support at-risk youth.

Friends, co-workers, families, patients, community organizations and businesses hit the streets of Ybor City for a two-hour hunt, covering several blocks with only a list of clues and checkpoints to guide them.

The teams completed various wacky tasks ranging from striking basketball poses in front of Chico Garcia’s Viva La Ybor mural to taking group selfies with strangers while eating Cuban sandwiches, all hoping to score the most points as they raced to the finish line for the winning title.

Teams must complete tasks such as a photo challenges. Here’s a great group shot posing with Mary at the popular spot Hamburger Mary’s in Ybor City.

The high-energy hunt ended with an awards reception and after party at Ybor City Wine Bar on 8^th Avenue. Guest speaker Cole Tyler Holt, a 21-year-old patient of the USF Health Ybor Youth Clinic, kicked off the celebration.

Using his experiences to help young adults overcome their own struggles, Cole advocates for the HIV-infected, homeless and LGBT communities the clinic aims to provide care to.

“The Ybor Youth Clinic is a welcoming and comfortable environment,” Cole said.  “The staff helped me with all my needs, from providing HIV care to addressing my housing situation. They even gave me some of the basics like socks, a tooth brush and a new pillow case for the rest of my time in the shelter.”

All proceeds from the event benefited the clinic’s operation to provide specific healthcare services to young people who have been underserved or felt unwelcome in traditional healthcare settings.

Take a look at the winning teams. To view more photos from the event, please visit USF Health’s Flickr here: http://bit.ly/PxJ7w5

The Fab Five takes home the winning victory for the most points scored.

Councilwoman Lisa J. Montelione (in red) came out to cheer on competitors at the all-day event. Here she congratulates second place winners, the Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative.

Team Adolescent Medicine from USF takes third place. Go Bulls!

Photos by Eric Younghans, USF Health Communications 

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A physician, a mentor and a friend to all who met him will truly be missed.

Lewis A. Barness, MD, a father of modern pediatrics, the founder of the USF Department of Pediatrics, a teacher to generations of physicians, and a groundbreaking researcher of infant nutrition, died Nov. 18, 2013. He was 92.

“USF Health would not be the place that it is today without the guiding influence of Dr. Lewis Barness,” said Donna Petersen, ScD, MHS, CPH, interim senior vice president of USF Health. “His founding leadership of the Department of Pediatrics and his contributions to the field of infant nutrition have helped so many children and helped build our institution. But we value Dr. Barness most as a friend. His complete commitment to his patients and mentorship of generations of students have helped make USF Health a better and more compassionate place. As we celebrate his legacy, our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”

“Dr. Barness leaves an incredible legacy for us,” said Harry van Loveren, MD, interim dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. “He has been a stellar leader and a wonderful role model for generations of medical students and resident physicians. We have all admired his affection for his patients, his dedication to scholarship and his commitment to teaching. You know, I sometimes say that we make new doctors one at a time. Dr. Barness was the exception: he leaves behind an entire legion of physicians who have been inspired and guided by him. We are all the better for having known and learned from him.”

Lewis Barness came to be a physician in Boston, where he completed medical school at Harvard and his residency and research fellowship at Children’s Hospital. He then joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Barness joined USF in 1972 as the first chairman for the USF Department of Pediatrics. As the inaugural chair, he helped recruit faculty to the fledgling medical school, built a curriculum, and attracted many of the best and brightest medical graduates to careers in pediatrics.

“Dr. Barness was a giant in Pediatrics and we are so proud that he was the founding Chair at USF,” said Patricia Emmanuel, MD, professor and chair of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, and holder of the Lewis A. Barness Endowed Chair.

“He built a superb pediatric program and inspired so many students, residents and faculty to promote children’s health. His spirit of inquiry, his joy of life, and love of children live on in our department – he defined our past and shapes our future.”

His obvious love for teaching had a significant impact on countless students with both serious and a fun side, said Loren Bartels, MD, an otologist, neurotologist, and skull-based surgeon practicing in Tampa and a member of the USF College of Medicine charter class.

“Dr. Barness was amazing in his breadth and depth of knowledge,” Dr. Bartels said. “As a charter class member, I was privileged to rotate on pediatrics at Tampa General Hospital where Dr. Barness held court…with an enforcer of a syringe filled with water for any who reasoned illogically. We all loved this gentle professor who was incredibly bright, an awesome teacher, and everyone’s favorite. He was certainly my favorite professor and, as I had the privilege later of knowing him as a co-faculty member and one of his personal physicians, I loved this man all the more. Even near the end, his eyes sparkled on meeting with him. He had an optimistic liveliness and was always so endearing. To me he was not just the internationally famous academic, not just a well honored author, not just a fabulous teacher, not just a brilliant man, he was a lovely person. He will be sorely missed.”

As a researcher, Dr. Barness made a huge impact on the field of infant nutrition and metabolism and used science to advocate the benefits of breast milk for infants. Recognized as a pioneer, his work truly advanced the field, said Jane Carver, PhD, MS, MPH, professor in the USF Department of Pediatrics and co-author with Dr. Barness on much of his research while at USF.

“Dr. Barness’ contribution to the field of pediatric nutrition and metabolic disorders is immeasurable,” Dr. Carver said. “He was a brilliant scientist who advanced the field to a higher level through his innovative and ground-breaking laboratory and clinical investigations. Dr. Barness was also a most compassionate and caring individual whose mentorship inspired generations of investigators to pursue this exciting area of research.”

He is the author of more than 260 manuscripts, 95 book chapters and 50 books.

Dr. Barness’ remarkable career spans more than 55 years and is filled with professional accolades and awards, including the prestigious John Howland Medal from the American Pediatric Society, recognized as the highest praise attainable in pediatrics. He has also earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics in recognition of his outstanding teaching, the Abraham Jacobi Award from the American Academic of Pediatrics and the Joseph St. Geme Leadership awarded from all of the pediatric societies. He has been inducted into the Pediatrics Hall of Fame, an organization established in Philadelphia, PA, to honor physicians who have made remarkable contributions to the practice of pediatrics.

Richard F. Lockey, MD, Distinguished University Health Professor, professor of medicine, pediatrics and public health and director of the USF Division of Allergy and Immunology, spent time with Dr. Barness and his wife Dr. Enid Barness a few months ago, sharing memories as charter faculty.

“During our visit, we had the opportunity to marvel over the changes that have taken place in the healthcare arena in Tampa Bay,” Dr. Lockey said. “We recollected about Sam Bukantz, Roy Behnke, Donn Smith, Andor Szentivanyi, and many of the other original USF medical faculty members, and how close knit we all were during the first decade of the College of Medicine’s existence. We all faced many of the same struggles and that made us into a unified and collegial group. Dr. Barness was the ‘compleat’ physician, à la Issac Walton’s classic The Compleat Angler. Dr. Barness’ legacy is his friends and trainees. I will truly miss him, as will all of the individuals whose lives he touched.”

For his tireless work at USF, Dr. Barness is easily regarded as one of the founding fathers of the USF College of Medicine, in the company of Roy H. Behnke, MD, and Donn L. Smith, MD. Dr. Barness was awarded a Distinguished University Professorship at USF in 1999.

In 2002, physicians and researchers from throughout the country attended a weekend-long event in his honor, including a scientific session and a banquet dinner.

Drs. Enid and Lewis Barness.

When he retired in 2007, fans, friends and colleagues packed the USF Gibbons Alumni Center to see him, to thank him and help celebrate the man and his career, sharing the accolades and anecdotes of someone who had truly made an impact.

Over the years, he was bestowed with several honorary degrees: a Master’s of Art degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1971), a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin (2002), and a Doctor of Public Health from USF (2008).

Dr. Barness is survived by his wife, Enid Gilbert Barness, MD. Surviving children include Carol Barness, Laura Barness and Joseph Barness. Surviving stepchildren include Jennifer Voss, Mary Lawrence, Elizabeth Gilbert-Bono, and Rebecca Hills.

Services will be held at noon, Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Congregation Schaarai Zedek, 3303 W. Swann Ave., Tampa, FL, 33609.

 Video by Allyn DiVito, USF Health Information Systems, and Elizabeth Peacock and Eric Younghans, USF Health Communications

ACH and USF Sign New Affiliation Agreements

St. Petersburg, FL (Oct., 2012) — All Children’s Hospital and the University of South Florida have signed new affiliation agreements that extend and enhance their longstanding collaborative efforts in pediatric medical education and research. The resulting expansion of pediatric research programs will benefit both institutions, create new jobs, drive economic development, and spur entrepreneurial growth in biomedical sciences while advancing understanding of pediatric health issues.

The eight-year agreement is the first renewal of the affiliation after All Children’s became a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine last year, and signals commitment to a long-term relationship.

“This sets the stage for ACH and USF to establish a critical mass for pediatric research and academics,” said Jonathan Ellen, MD, president and vice dean, All Children’s Hospital. “It promises an academic culture that will foster the generation of new ideas and avenues of inquiry to ultimately benefit children throughout the Tampa Bay area and beyond.”

“This is a new day for our relationship,” said Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, CEO of USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine. “It provides for a unique residency experience for our pediatric residents between All Children’s and Tampa General and the colleges of USF Health.”

“Now, our world-class endowed chairs at the Children’s Research Institute will work along with investigators from All Children’s Hospital and Johns Hopkins in a collegial and collaborative environment,” Dr. Klasko said.

Collaboration between the two institutions dates back to 1973, with the creation of an endocrinology clinical and research program headed by Allen Root, MD. It grew in the 1980s to include pediatric immunology and molecular genetics. In 1996, USF pediatric residency programs in St. Petersburg and Tampa combined into a single program in which resident physicians received training on both sides of the bay.

USF residents will continue to benefit from participating in the care of children with acute and complex medical conditions and intense exposure to pediatric subspecialties through rotations at ACH.  The agreement reaffirms that USF medical students and residents in surgical specialties can continue to train at ACH for pediatric experience. In addition, All Children’s will continue to provide support for ongoing USF clinical programs in pediatric allergy/immunology and pediatric nephrology at ACH.

“The USF residency, established in the early 70’s has trained over half of the pediatricians in the Tampa Bay area,” said Dr. Patricia Emmanuel, chair of the USF Health Department of Pediatrics. “This affiliation will continue the excellence of the training program, and perpetuates the legacy of our Department. We have the benefits of all aspects of our University to help create future pediatric leaders.”

The agreements further define how ACH and USF will move forward collaboratively to grow a shared pediatric research mission based at the Children’s Research Institute (CRI). The CRI, a USF Health facility adjacent to ACH that was built with a combination of ACH donations and state matching funds, opened in 2000. Several CRI-based researchers who hold endowed chairs (established through gifts from the All Children’s Hospital Foundation) in the USF Health Department of Pediatrics will continue their investigations.

Funds from two endowed chairs that remain unfilled will be redirected to support a collaborative research enterprise and expanded research infrastructure that will benefit both institutions. Through the agreement, All Children’s will lease space within the CRI.

“The new agreement leverages the existing endowed chairs and the CRI building and facilities in order to expand research programs and infrastructure,” Dr. Ellen said. “This will enhance the impact of the original gifts from generous All Children’s Hospital supporters.”

“Greater collaboration among investigators and programs within the Children’s Research Institute will contribute further to scientific advancements achieved by USF investigators and create new research opportunities aimed at improving children’s health,” Dr. Klasko said.

The CRI endowed chairs are:

• The Andrew & Ann Hines Chair in Molecular Genetics – Gary Litman, PhD
• The Robert A. Good Endowed Chair in Immunology – John Sleasman, MD
• The Mason Endowed Chair in Translational Cardiology – Kersti Linask, PhD
• The Maurice A. and Thelma P. Rothman Chair of Developmental Pediatrics – Tanya Murphy, MD, MS
• The All Children’s Hospital Guild Chair in Child Development – Eric Storch, PhD, MS
• The Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club Chair in Translational Diabetes – Michael Shamblott, MD

The two new collaborative research program endowments are:

• ACH / USF Program Endowment in Health Services Sciences
• The Andrews/Daicoff Program Endowment in Pediatric Cardiology at ACH

About All Children’s Hospital

Children are the sole focus of All Children’s Hospital and its million-square-foot St. Petersburg FL campus devoted to pediatric specialty care.  The ten-story, 259-bed All Children’s Hospital and its adjacent Outpatient Care Center (dedicated in January 2010) replaced an existing 42-year old facility just two blocks away. All Children’s Hospital is a proud member of Johns Hopkins Medicine. All Children’s is the only US hospital outside of the Baltimore/Washington D.C. metroplex to achieve that distinction. It is also the only hospital on Florida’s West Coast totally devoted to children’s care – a leader in pediatric treatment, education, research and advocacy. As a regional referral center for children with some of the most challenging medical problems, All Children’s draws patients from throughout Florida, all 50 states and 36 foreign countries.  The mission of this private, not-for-profit hospital is rooted in its beginnings in 1926 as Florida’s first Crippled Children’s Hospital for polio victims. All Children’s understands that it’s not enough to treat disease — that true progress comes from teaching and research to cure disease. All Children’s shares its pediatric expertise through research & education affiliations with 70 different institutions including Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of South Florida (USF Health) as well as Moffitt Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

About USF Health

USF Health’s mission is to envision and implement the future of health. It is the partnership of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, the College of Nursing, the College of Public Health, the College of Pharmacy, the School of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences; and the USF Physicians Group. The University of South Florida is a global research university ranked 50th in the nation by the National Science Foundation for both federal and total research expenditures among all U.S. universities.

Media Contacts:
Ann Miller, ACH Media Relations Manager, (727) 767-8592, millera@allkids.org
Lisa Greene, Director of Strategic Communications, USF Health Communications, lgreene@health.usf.edu or  (813) 974-4312