University of Florida student Itamar Gal was selected as a College of Medicine University Scholar for the 2025-2026 academic year. He is currently a second-year undergraduate student and plans to apply to medical school. Gal is interested in neuroscience and the relationship between anesthetic and cognitive function. This interest led…
Congratulations to all who had articles published in February! Our faculty with publications were Drs. Bose, Brennan, Fahy, Frantz, Garvan, Giordano, Gravenstein, Jones, Martin, Martynyuk, Peng, Sappenfield, Schutte, Tighe, Tsuda, Vasilopoulos, Wardhan, and Wenzel. Anesthesia and Analgesia Chan KH, Brennan M, Wardhan R, Tighe P, Ison R, Giordano C, Sappenfield…
Nikolaus Gravenstein, M.D., the Jerome H. Modell, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology, was recognized for his outstanding research mentorship with the Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna Distinguished Research Mentoring Award. This award is given each year by the University of Florida College of Medicine to a faculty member at least 10 years into…
Congratulations to everybody who was published in August! Published faculty were Doctors Berkow, Davies, Frantz, Maybauer, Przkora, Reina, Smith, Spiess, Tighe, and Vasilopoulos. ACS Sensors Yan H, Tian Z, Ziegenbein E, Liu Y, Santana A, Veige AS, Spiess B, Tan W, Zeng Y. Heparin-bead extraction enhanced fluorogenic aptamer-thrombin composite…
Congratulations to Svetlana Chembrovich, M.D.; Everett Jones, M.D.; Timothy Feldheim, M.D.; Amir Jafari, D.O.; Matthew Meroney, M.D.; and Federico Jimenez Ruiz, M.D. for their selections as 2024 recipients of education awards from the I. Heermann Anesthesia Foundation (IHAF). IHAF Education Awards encourage and support scholarly pursuits designed to enhance…
We recently spoke with François Modave, Ph.D., about his professional and personal pursuits. He is a professor of artificial intelligence (AI), associate chair of research for the University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology, and assistant dean of the Quality and Patient Safety Initiative (QPSi) Academy in the UF College…
On Monday, February 12, undergraduate and medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty from departments all over the UF College of Medicine gathered in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center for their 14th Annual Celebration of Research poster session. Members from the Department of Anesthesiology sent 36 posters to the event covering…
Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine has just published a research paper (available online ahead of print) co-authored by several colleagues in the UF Department of Anesthesiology examining the incidence of acute compartment syndrome (ACS) while using regional anesthesia for pain management in…
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has awarded a five-year, $3,692,175 grant to the University of Florida College of Dentistry and the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine. This funding aims to establish an academic multidisciplinary practice-based research network within and between the two dental schools.
UF Department of Anesthesiology leadership have appointed several clinical directors of research with the goal of increasing research and scholarly activity across the department’s clinical divisions. These new leadership positions were created to develop a cohort of clinicians with an in-depth knowledge of research resources and methodologies. “The role of…
