Mobeen H. Rathore, M.D., a professor and associate chair of pediatrics, has been appointed vice president of the Florida Pediatric Society, the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The mission of the Florida Pediatric Society is to promote the health and welfare of Florida’s children and to support the pediatricians and pediatric specialists [...]

Daniel Kantor, M.D., an assistant professor of neurology, has been named president-elect of the Florida Society of Neurology. Kantor will serve a two-year appointment starting Sept. 11, followed by a second two-year term as president. The society’s mission is to advance the art and science of neurology and promote the best possible care for patients [...]

Glioblastoma. The word didn’t really exist for Tracie Stokes before Jan. 23. Just another five-syllable word in the medical dictionary. But since that Friday, when doctors detected a tumor just wider than a quarter in her husband’s brain, words like glioblastoma, radiation and chemotherapy have become integral parts of her everyday vocabulary. “At first, it [...]

Daniel Kantor, M.D., an assistant professor of neurology, has been named president-elect of the Florida Society of Neurology. Kantor will serve a two-year appointment starting Sept. 11, followed by a second two-year term as president. The organization’s mission is to advance the art and science of neurology and promote the best possible care for patients [...]

Kakarla Chalam, M.D., Ph.D., the assistant dean for veterans affairs affiliations and chair of the department of ophthalmology, was recognized along with his team of nine faculty physicians and staff by the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network in October. Chalam’s department received the organization’s Site of the Month Award. The organization supports the identification, design [...]

Eric Conde, M.S.A., assistant dean for administrative affairs, has been selected to serve as state director for the American Academy of Medical Administrators. Conde is a fellow of the American Academy of Medical Administrators and also serves as a member of the organization’s advancement committee. The American Academy of Medical Administrators’ mission is to advance [...]

Michael S. Nussbaum, M.D., F.A.C.S., has been named chair of the department of surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, effective July 1. Nussbaum said the surgery department’s strong reputation for training surgical residents and fellows, teaching medical students, performing state-of-the-art translational and basic research and delivering excellence in patient care influenced his [...]

A computer containing the private health information of 1,900 patients of a University of Florida physician was managed and disposed of in a way that left the information vulnerable to misuse, according to UF privacy officials here. Although the computer has been recovered and the risk of anyone using the information for unlawful or mischievous [...]

The leader of the University of Florida Health Science Center, Douglas J. Barrett, M.D., will step down from his position at the end of the current academic year. Barrett, UF senior vice president for health affairs, has held the post since 2002. A pediatric immunologist, he said he intends to return to clinical practice and [...]

University of Florida researchers have identified a set of proteins that appear to signal the presence of bladder cancer, a discovery they hope will lead to a simple, fast and noninvasive test that can detect the disease early. Working with colleagues at the University of Michigan, the scientists used advances in technology to isolate nearly [...]