Longtime professor and prolific neonatology researcher Mark L. Hudak, M.D., is the new chair of the pediatrics department at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. The pediatrics department is the largest within the UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville and has specialty clinics and pediatric centers across Northeast Florida. “The University of Florida College of Medicine–Jacksonville [...]

A national search for the next chair of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville turned up the best candidate in its own backyard. Steven A. “Andy” Godwin, M.D., was named chair of the department he has been running as interim chair for a year. Godwin has been assistant dean for simulation [...]

The late 1980s and early 1990s were hectic times for the pediatrics department at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. Contracts were in the works, various partnerships were being negotiated and the role of the department in the community wasn’t clear. The official relationship between UF and Jacksonville was still in its infancy, and [...]

Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels can keep heart disease, heart attack and stroke away. And a commonly used vitamin could help by increasing production of “good” cholesterol in the body, researchers at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville have found. The findings were published recently in the journal Metabolism, Clinical and Experimental. Physicians have long [...]

Heart patients who have stents that prop open blocked arteries often face a dilemma when they need open heart surgery: Continue taking life-saving blood thinners but risk severe bleeding during surgery, or stop taking the medicines and risk a heart attack. Now, researchers from the University of Florida and elsewhere have identified a new drug [...]

More than half of children admitted to an urban Florida pediatric emergency department had elevated blood pressure, according to a study published in the journal Pediatric Emergency Care. Elevated blood pressure is often a sign of kidney or other health problems in children. Evaluating the readings thoughtfully and ordering further tests could be a key [...]

Nancy P. Mendenhall, M.D., medical director of the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute and associate chair of the UF department of radiation oncology, is the recipient of a James E. Lockwood Professorship. The newly created professorship is made possible by a $1 million endowment from the Lockwood Charitable Foundation and is the first of [...]

The University of Florida College of Medicine–Jacksonville and Community Hospice of Northeast Florida have established the nation’s first partnership between a nonprofit hospice organization and an academic institution to create an endowed professorship in pediatric palliative care. Community Hospice, through a commitment from the Neviaser Family Foundation, donated $600,000 to the UF department of pediatrics [...]

After an extensive national search, Daniel R. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., has been named vice president of the University of Florida Health Science Center-Jacksonville and dean of the UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville, announced David S. Guzick, M.D., Ph.D., UF senior vice president for health affairs and president of the UF&Shands Health System. Wilson, chairman of psychiatry [...]

Media Contact: Theresa Makrush (904) 798-3199, tmakrush@shepherdagency.com In the search for life on other planets, scientists want to be sure they are not detecting stowaway life forms from Earth. That’s why researchers from the University of Florida and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) plan to meet at the UF Proton Therapy Institute this weekend—to test [...]