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Earlier this month, over a thousand women attended the sold out 14th Annual Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP) Fall Symposium at the Hilton Tampa Downtown for a day filled with motivational sessions, networking, and an awards luncheon featuring national best-selling author, Jean Case, as the keynote speaker. During the luncheon, WLP presented Linda Simmons [...]

Inside the mother’s womb, a fetus exchanges oxygen through the umbilical cord. Once the fetus is delivered, the umbilical cord is clamped, giving the baby the ability to breathe oxygen independently. In rare cases, the fetus has a severe congenital abnormality that obstructs the airway and makes independent breathing after delivery difficult or impossible. Instead of a [...]

Dear Faculty, Staff and Students: It is with great sadness that I share the news that Dr. Roger Monsour passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, September 26 at the age of 83. Dr. Monsour was a loyal and steadfast supporter of USF Health.  Roger lived a life full of purpose dedicated to the [...]

The USF Health Morsani College of Medicine is teaching the next generation of physicians to not only provide the highest quality care for their patients but also about philanthropy and the importance of giving back. In June, a line of USF’s overall state budget was vetoed, resulting in a cut of $1.7 million from the [...]

Many know Mark Moseley as the Chief Medical Officer for USF Health, but what most do not think about is that even executive physicians are also patients themselves. In 2008, Moseley was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the lining of the digestive tract. He describes being diagnosed with this [...]

In 2008, Dr. Mark Moseley was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects the lining of the digestive tract. Upon joining USF Health in 2017, he turned to Dr. Renee Marchioni Beery, DO, director of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, to treat him for Crohn’s [...]

The University of South Florida Foundation Board of Directors recently elected USF cornerstones Samuel “Sam” P. Bell III and Panos Vasiloudes MD to join its ranks. Sam Bell, considered the “father of the USF College of Public Health,” has had a pivotal role in advocating for USF Health. Bell has been actively involved with the [...]

The University of South Florida Women’s Health Collaborative held its sixth annual Leading the Way Awards Luncheon during National Women’s Health Week at the Bryan Glazer JCC. The annual luncheon, sponsored by PNC Bank, sold out with more than 300 leaders and health researchers in attendance and raised over $80,000 to help improve the health [...]

Last year, the Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute and Research Center named David E. Kang, PhD, professor of molecular medicine the position of director of the Division of Basic Research in the Morsani College of Medicine. He will also hold the Mary F. and Louis E. Fleming Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Research. Dr. Kang will lead day-to-day [...]

On March 12, USF Health held its annual scholarship donor appreciation event, ELEVATE, at the Florida Aquarium. The 160 guests included scholarship donors, scholarship recipients and leaders from across USF Health’s four colleges – the Morsani College of Medicine and its School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and [...]