Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, USF Health has found innovative ways to continue delivering high-quality education and training to the next generation of health care professionals, while also […]

On behalf of the faculty, staff and students of the USF Health Neuroscience Institute, it gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the Spring 2021 edition of our newsletter. This compilation of articles, announcements and videos represents some of our highlights from the past three months. For those who missed a previous announcement, we again congratulate Dr. Gopal Thinakaran […]

USF College of Public Health alumna Ivory Iheanacho MSPH ’14 recently co-authored a guidance document for the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) on “The Lens of Minority Populations in the Workplace During COVID-19.” This peer-reviewed guidance document is a resource for organizations looking to apply an equity lens to their COVID-19 mitigation efforts. The document presents a data driven analysis […]

Three of USF Health’s experts provided guidance on getting through the holidays at “Living Well in the Age of COVID-19,” a virtual event for USF donors, alumni and patients. College of Public Health Dean Donna Petersen discussed the current CDC guidelines and ways to stay safe through the holiday season as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Emotional intelligence expert Dr. […]

In August, Ramesh Ayyala, MD, made a $10,000 gift to start the Eye Care For All fund, which will help the uninsured and underserved population in Tampa Bay to receive […]

USF Health neurology patient, Roni-Kay Lopez, and her Seize the Moment Foundation presented a combined $15,000 to benefit epilepsy research and patient care at USF Health and Tampa General Hospital […]

Elsevier, the Tampa branch of a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, has made a gift to the USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy to endow The Dean Kevin B. Sneed Inaugural Class Pharmacy Scholarship, which supports Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students. This will be the first class scholarship in the college to reach the endowment level, […]

Though COVID-19 led to the postponement of the 2020 Leading the Way Awards Luncheon, the USF Women’s Health Collaborative still awarded seed grants to four faculty teams, made possible by the generosity of the 2019 event sponsors and attendees. Each year, faculty teams compete for seed grants that support interdisciplinary research to advance women’s health. In the last seven years, […]

Retired Tampa psychiatrist Jack F. Ross MD died at the age of 98 last summer, leaving more than $4.1 million to benefit his MD student scholarship. The bequest represents the largest single gift to scholarships in the history of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. “This gift will have a tremendous impact on the lives of our medical students,” […]

More than 1,700 patients sent uplifting notes to their USF Health doctors and staff for National Doctors’ Day on March 30. Now more than ever, the dedication of USF Health physicians, nurses, and other staff is being recognized.  Here are just a few of the uplifting responses we received: “Thank you to all the USF doctors and their medical staff for your perseverance and grit!  You are […]