USF College of Public Health Dean Donna Petersen, Florida Blue Chief Medical Officer Elana Schrader, and USF Health Deputy Chief Operating Officer Carole Post led a lively discussion on “Transforming the Future of Health: Creative Collaboration for a Healthier Region” at the USF Women in Leadership and Philanthropy (WLP) Fall Symposium at the Hilton Tampa Downtown in October. “We don’t […]
Retired USF professor David Vesely, MD, PhD, has made a $350,000 gift to support the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute expansion in Water Street Tampa. Dr. Vesely’s support of this building will power an advanced educational environment to better prepare the future doctors of Florida and bring them closer to USF’s primary teaching hospital, Tampa General, […]
Academic Alliance in Dermatology and its founders, Dr. Panos and Helen Vasiloudes, have committed $250,000 to support the new USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute building in Water Street Tampa. “USF is a very special place for us, where personal and professional emotions come together,” said Dr. Vasiloudes. “Teaching pediatric dermatology has been the most rewarding experience […]
USF Health cardiology patient Harold Saied Samhat recently chose to memorialize his wife and thank his physician, Arthur Labovitz MD, with a $50,000 gift in support of cardiovascular research, education and clinical care at USF. “Everyone at USF, from the people I passed in the hallway to my head cardiac surgeon was friendly, caring and professional,” said Samhat, a semi-retired […]
As the countdown continues for the start of construction on the new USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute building in Water Street Tampa, new renderings by HOK have been released by the University of South Florida.
Nearly 200 community leaders attended the fourth annual USF Women’s Health Collaborative Leading the Way Luncheon on May 9 at the Bryan Glazer JCC. During the luncheon, three interdisciplinary research teams received $45,000 in seed grants for their projects. USF Health also honored Hillsborough County’s first female surgeon, Sylvia Campbell USF MD ’77, and political scientist and distinguished USF professor, […]
More than 80 leaders from the University of South Florida, Tampa General Hospital and Tampa Bay business community gathered to celebrate the appointment of Samuel A. Wickline MD as the first TGH Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine. The event also served to recognize Wickline’s appointment as the founding director of the USF Health Heart Institute, a key component of the […]
USF Health congratulates Jan Judisch on being recognized as a Lightning Community Hero by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Judisch served as head of pediatric hematology and oncology as part of USF Health Morsani College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, and she designated half of the $50,000 donation from the Lightning Foundation to benefit pediatric education at USF.
The University of South Florida has unveiled preliminary renderings of the future home of its USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute in downtown Tampa. The renderings offer an early look at USF’s newest state-of-the-art facility, which will combine under one roof a medical school to teach the next generation of physicians, and a cardiovascular research institute […]
An interview with Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM Senior Vice President for USF Health; Dean, Morsani College of Medicine Q: It has been almost a year since the downtown site was dedicated for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute. What’s happening now? A: We’re in the process of seeking the final tranche of funding from the […]