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Dr. Brandon Allen assigned to ACGME Review Committee for Emergency Medicine
February 7, 2013 Dear Dr. Allen, The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is pleased to inform you that the ACGME Board of Directors confirmed your appointment to the ACGME Review Committee for Emergency Medicine. Sincerely, Thomas Nasca, M.D., MACP Chief Executive Officer ACGME…
UF Department of Emergency Medicine Scribe Program
The Department of Emergency Medicine is starting the Scribe Program at Shands at the University of Florida at the Gainesville campus for the summer of 2013. Hired as hourly employees, health career bound students work hand-in-hand with physicians and physician assistants during their shifts in the ED. Scribes complete the…
From the House to UF&Shands
Adrian Tyndall, M.D., chair of the department of emergency medicine and Shands Critical Care Center Emergency Department medical director, and U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown paused for a photo on the helipad during Brown’s recent tour of the Shands Cancer Hospital at UF. During her visit, she also attended meetings with…
Many don’t believe their obesity poses health risks
Many overweight and obese patients seen in hospital emergency departments don’t believe their weight poses a risk to their health, and many say doctors have never told them otherwise, a new study finds. Researchers asked 450 randomly selected patients who were seen in the emergency department at Shands at…
Patient Insight into the Health Risks Associated with Obesity
Show: 911: Emergency Talk Radio – brought to you by ACEP Guest Speaker Matthew Ryan, MD, Ph.D. Director of Medical Student Clerkship Program and Assistant Professor Topic: Patient Insight into the Health Risks Associated with Obesity Topic Info: A study that will be presented at Scientific Assembly says…
Toral Family Foundation supports traumatic brain injury research at UF
Michael L. Good, M.D., dean of the UF College of Medicine, signs paperwork to help establish the Toral Family Foundation Professorship in Traumatic Brain Injury, alongside Frank Toral, an advocate for brain injury research and education. Watching are Joseph A Tyndall, M.D., chairman for the department of emergency medicine, and…
2011 Symposium by the Sea Award
KUDOS to all of our residents’ accomplishments this weekend at 2011 Symposium by the Sea!! The weekend started off with an EMRAF meeting with Dr Justin Bennett as our FCEP board rep and Drs Mindy Fernandez, Jonathan DeGroat, and Brandon Allen attending as our EMRAF reps. Mindy Fernandez was also…
The University of Florida NASA Medical Support Team bids farewell to the Space Transport System
With the completion of STS-135 the Space Shuttle program closes out a glorious chapter in the American Space Program. It also closes out the University of Florida’s Medical Support Program, which provided highly trained medical teams to the manned launches and landings at Kennedy Space Center. On July 21, 2011…