About Karen Dooley

Karen DooleyDirector of Advancement Communications for the College of Medicine, she oversees and coordinates the communications and marketing needs of the College of Medicine, particularly in the areas of advancement and alumni relations. Dooley joined UF in 1996 as a writer for the News and Public Affairs Office. She also worked for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences as a science writer before becoming editor of the College of Medicine’s alumni magazine, Florida Physician, in 1999. The Florida Physician has received several writing, design and photography awards from the Council on the Advancement of Education, the Florida Magazine Association and the University of Florida’s Golden Gators awards. Dooley recently received the Robert G. Fenley Writing Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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Oversee and coordinate the communications and marketing needs of the College of Medicine, particularly in the areas of advancement and alumni relations. Serves as editor of the Florida Physician alumni magazine, which is designed to highlight accomplishments of the College of Medicine faculty, alumni and students. Serves as managing editor of the Dr. Gator alumni newsletter. Oversee College of Medicine main Web page and online news site Insider. Assist director of HSC News and Communications in strategic planning, media relations, crisis management.

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UF receives $1 million from W.M. Keck Foundation to study mechanisms of inherited disease

Apr 11, 2012 • By

The Center for NeuroGenetics at the University of Florida has received a highly competitive $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study a new idea that challenges conventional understanding of how proteins in cells are made, and their impact on inherited diseases. Scientists have long understood the role of messenger RNA, known as [...]

$5 million gift from Miami couple to boost gene therapy research at the University of Florida

Feb 22, 2012 • By

For the past 12 years, University of Florida researchers at the Powell Gene Therapy Center have pioneered gene therapies aimed at helping patients with inherited blindness and paralyzing neuromuscular diseases. With many of these therapies finally about to cross over from the laboratory to mainstream medicine, the Powell Center’s original benefactors, Earl and Christy Powell, [...]

$10 million Wells Foundation gift will enable UF to speed brain tumor remedies

Jan 30, 2012 • By

A $10 million gift from the Lillian S. Wells Foundation Inc. to the University of Florida department of neurosurgery will help medical scientists better understand the causes of brain tumors and lead to effective treatments and improved quality of life for patients, UF officials announced today. The Fort Lauderdale-based foundation’s gift will establish the Lillian [...]

UF mourns passing of physician who pioneered field of interventional radiology

Jun 17, 2011 • By

One of the University of Florida’s most esteemed physicians, Irvin Franklin “Dick” Hawkins, M.D., a professor of radiology and surgery at UF for nearly 50 years, passed away Wednesday, June 8. He was 74. “Dr. Hawkins will be missed greatly at the University of Florida,” said Michael L. Good, M.D., dean of the College of [...]

Gift from METI founder helps advance use of technology in medical education at UF

Feb 22, 2011 • By

A new professorship established in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida will help further integrate the use of innovative technology in medical education at the state’s premier medical school. The Lou Oberndorf Professorship in Healthcare Technology was made possible by a philanthropic gift from the Lou and Rosemary Oberndorf Charitable Fund. Oberndorf [...]

Audio Ice cream’s not-so-sweet side

Jul 10, 2010 • By

Podcast: Play in new window | Download I scream. You scream. We all scream when the ice cream we’re eating leaves us with a searing headache, or what most of us refer to as a brain freeze. It is a stabbing type of pain that lasts ten to twenty seconds and interrupts you as you [...]

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Video COM celebrates 50th Commencement

May 25, 2010 • By

Just as 49 classes did before them, the 130 members of the UF College of Medicine class of 2010 received their degrees and took the Hippocratic Oath as new medical doctors in the college’s 50th commencement ceremony held Saturday, May 22. This year’s milestone graduation overflowed with emotion and enthusiasm as six members from the [...]

UF appoints new senior associate dean for educational affairs

Apr 22, 2010 • By

The University of Florida College of Medicine has appointed Dr. Joseph C. Fantone as its next senior associate dean for educational affairs, effective June 1. The appointment, announced by Dean Michael Good, M.D., follows an extensive national search and interview process. “Because of the outstanding quality of our medical school, we are able to attract [...]

Video Byrne is no stranger to ‘Extraordinary Measures’ when it comes to Pompe disease

Jan 21, 2010 • By

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Dr. Barry Byrne, a pediatric cardiologist and highly accomplished geneticist at the UF College of Medicine, leaves today for New York but not for an academic seminar or to present a research paper. He will be attending the premier of a major motion picture and walking the red [...]

Video Haiti Relief Video

Jan 15, 2010 • By

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Mark Atkinson, Ph.D., professor in the department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine and an eminent scholar for diabetes research at the University of Florida, will leave Saturday morning for Haiti, answering a call for help from a hospital about 35 miles north of Port-au-Prince. Atkinson, co-director of [...]