Congratulations to Olgert Bardhi for receiving the 2019 Carey R. Barber, M.D. Scholarship for Depression Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Bardhi is a 2nd year medical student at the University of Florida and was presented the award by Richard and Syble Eads at the College of Medicine Honors Convocation on September 16,…
Congratulations to Jay Clugston, MD, MS, CAQSM for his continued efforts in concussion research. Dr. Clugston, who is a Florida Gator’s Team Physician, recently co-authored new guidelines that were published in the journal of Neurosurgery. The guidelines recommend assessing concussions as early as three days of injury for five…
Congratulations to our Academic Assistant I, Lea Crowley for being the first-ever recipient of the UF & UF Health Wellness Warrior Award! Lea has been the driving force for the administrative office’s wellness activities, such as: Incorporating a one minute exercise at the top of…
Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Chacko for being invited to participate in the inaugural, invitation only National Academy of Medicine’s Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Forum, held in Washington, DC on July 17-18, 2019. The forum is an annual assembly of outstanding early- and mid-career professionals with exceptional professional promise,…
Care coordination, increasingly recognized as an effective component of health care delivery, allows members of health care teams to work together to benefit the patient. Congratulations to the hardworking team at the Mobile Outreach Clinic (MOC) for being published by the Journal of Health Care for…
Please join us in welcoming our newest Family Medicine Resident Class of 2022! …
Please join us in congratulating both Robert Hatch, MD, MPH and Arch Mainous, PhD, for receiving individual awards at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Hatch received the STFM Excellence in Education Award for his outstanding contributions at the University…
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Peter Carek for being selected as the recipient of the 2019 Thomas W. Johnson Award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine Education by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). This award recognizes outstanding contributions to family medicine education in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing…
Please join us in congratulating Frank Orlando, MD, Elisa Lupi, MD, and Ku-Lang Chang, MD, for being awarded first place on their poster “Using a Daily Self-Regulation Practice with Biofeedback to Improve Stress & Job Satisfaction in a Primary Care Outpatient Clinic” by the Florida Academy of Family Physicians (FAFP).
Professor and Chair of the UF Community Health and Family Medicine Department, Peter Carek, M.D., recently led a research study which would shed light on the most frequent users of the University of Florida Health Shands emergency rooms. Please follow the link to read the article: https://ufhealth.org/news/2019/uf-health-researchers-learn-more-about-which-patients-visit-er-most-often …
