The University of Florida’s Springhill psychiatry building will allow faculty physicians to provide child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, addiction medicine, chronic pain and forensic services, as well as an eating disorder program. In addition, addiction faculty will see patients of the Florida Recovery Center, one of the largest and best known treatment centers for alcoholics and addicts in the South.

Pictured from left to right are the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients: Dr. Julio Ibanez, Dr. Louis Archbald, Dr. Jerome Modell and Dr. Dale Kaplan-Stein. Ibanez and Kaplan-Stein received the Alumni Achievement Award; Archbald received the Distinguished Service Award and Modell received the Special Service Award. Not pictured is Dr. Tonya Clauss, recipient of the Young Alumni Award.

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Amy Stone, D.V.M., Ph.D., a clinical assistant professor in the department of small animal clinical sciences

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Lisa Merlo, Ph.D.,  an assistant professor of psychiatry

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Jesse Schold,  an assistant professor of medicine

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News Release: Older kidney transplant patients should more often consider live donors

Michael Ross, Ph.D., former chairman of the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of anatomy and cell biology

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Bradley S. Fletcher, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of pharmacology and therapeutics in the College of Medicine

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News Release: Gene therapy technique thwarts cancer by cutting off tumor blood supply

Stephen Grobmyer, M.D., an assistant professor of surgical oncology and endocrine surgery at the UF College of Medicine

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News Release: Breast MRI shows it's not the size of the lymph node that signals spread of cancer

University of Florida scientists, including David Borchelt and Mercedes Prudencio, have discovered why a paralyzing brain disorder speeds along more rapidly in some patients than others — a finding that may finally give researchers an entry point toward an effective treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Carrie McGirr, R.N., holds her hands, containing sanitizer gel, under a sensor before cleaning them, activating a green light on the badge she is wearing. Richard Melker, M.D., Ph.D., a UF College of Medicine professor of anesthesiology and chief technology officer of Xhale Inc., has developed new technology to track hand washing and improve hygiene among health-care professionals.

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News Release: New campaign encourages women with disabilities to get breast cancer screenings

Dr. David Weinstein checks in on a patient with glycogen storage disease. A team of UF researchers recently made a gene therapy breakthough in  
a dog born with glycogen storage disease type 1A that could pave the  
way for better treatments for children with the disease.

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News Release: UF makes gene therapy breakthrough in treating severe genetic disorder

Cathryn Mah, Ph.D., a member of the Powell Gene Therapy Center and UF Genetics Institute, a UF assistant professor of pediatric cellular and molecular therapy and a co-investigator on the study.

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Dr. David S. Guzick has been named the University of Florida’s senior vice president for health affairs and president of the UF&Shands Health System.

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Marco Salemi, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine at the UF College of Medicine.

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UF researchers to probe evolution of HIV-related dementia

Dr. Barry Byrne, director of the Powell Gene Therapy Center at the University of Florida, led a research team that discovered a previously unknown “brain” connection in what has always been thought of as a “muscle” disease. The finding may lead to an effective treatment for Pompe disease, a genetic disorder that claims the lives of most children who have it before they reach age 2.

Child psychiatrist Kimberly White, M.D., talks about organizing the children’s area, complete with games and toys, at the new UF psychiatry clinic at Springhill.

Daniel Logan, M.D., an assistant professor of addiction medicine, talks about features of the new UF psychiatry facility at Springhill with Marika Brigham (center), associate director of psychiatry, and psychiatry administrator Terry Moore. Call 352-265-5404 for more information about psychiatry programs.

Dr. David Barber (left) a UF toxicologist, is shown with UF College of Veterinary Medicine Racing Lab scientific manager David Hall and the lab’s director, Dr. Richard Sams. Barber was able to verify life-threatening levels of selenium in blood and liver samples from several of the horses that died suddenly in Wellington just prior to a tournament on April 19. Selenium was determined to be the probable cause of death. The UF College of Veterinary Medicine Racing Lab meanwhile had performed screening tests on samples from the animals to rule out the presence of any performance-enhancing drugs in the horses’ systems. (Photo by Sarah Carey)

Bryon Peterson, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology at the University of Florida

Richard Sams., Ph.D.

Sheilah Robertson., Ph.D.

Julie Levy, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Barry Byrne, M.D., Ph.D.

Gulfstream Park charity committee members and University of Florida veterinary students pose at the racetrack March 28 to mark the naming of the Gulfstream Barbaro Award recipients. The scholarships help students pursue careers in equine medicine and surgery and further equine research. Participating were (from left) committee member Kas Willis, veterinary student Erica Rosen, jockey Kent Desormeaux, veterinary student Megan Lamb, committee member Jan Hansen, graduate student Astrid Grosche, and committee members Jeff Humke and Shirley Horn.

Emina Huang, M.D., a UF colorectal surgeon

Stephanie A. S. Staras, Ph.D., a UF assistant professor of epidemiology and health policy research in the UF College of Medicine

Martin Cohn, a University of Florida scientist whose interest in embryonic development and evolution led him to discover the molecular building blocks that shape limb and skeletal development, was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist today (March 26. 2009).

The University of Florida College of Dentistry will dedicate the Naples Children and Education Foundation Pediatric Dental Center at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 29, on the Collier County Campus of Edison State College in Naples.

Ron Mandel, a professor of neuroscience at UF's McKnight Brain Institute and the Powell Gene Therapy Center

Caprice Knapp, Ph.D., an assistant research professor of epidemiology and health policy research in the College of Medicine

University of Florida doctors perform a deep brain stimulation procedure. DBS was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for patient use in 2002. It involves mapping the brain and strategically implanting small electrodes. Eventually, with additional operations, the electrodes are connected to a small, battery-powered unit implanted in the patient’s shoulder area that provides electrical stimulation. The stimulation alters brain activity without destroying brain tissue, thereby combating symptoms of disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

University of Florida surgeons today were the first in the state to implant an electronic breathing device in a ventilator-dependent, spinal cord-injured patient. The lightweight, battery-powered diaphragm pacing system was approved by the FDA last year and is designed to help spinal cord-injured patients breathe without external assistance.
UF trauma medical director Lawrence Lottenberg, M.D., and neurosurgeon R. Patrick Jacob, M.D., were assisted by surgeon Raymond Onders, M.D., from University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Ohio. Onders pioneered and used the then-experimental device in Christopher Reeve’s 2003 procedure.

University of Florida surgeons today were the first in the state to implant an electronic breathing device in a ventilator-dependent, spinal cord-injured patient. The lightweight, battery-powered diaphragm pacing system was approved by the FDA last year and is designed to help spinal cord-injured patients breathe without external assistance.
UF trauma medical director Lawrence Lottenberg, M.D. (center) and neurosurgeon R. Patrick Jacob, M.D., were assisted by surgeon Raymond Onders, M.D. (left), from University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Ohio. Onders pioneered and used the then-experimental device in Christopher Reeve’s 2003 procedure.

University of Florida surgeons today were the first in the state to implant an electronic breathing device in a ventilator-dependent, spinal cord-injured patient. The lightweight, battery-powered diaphragm pacing system was approved by the FDA last year and is designed to help spinal cord-injured patients breathe without external assistance. UF trauma medical director Lawrence Lottenberg, M.D. (center), and neurosurgeon R. Patrick Jacob, M.D. (right), were assisted by surgeon Raymond Onders, M.D., from University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Ohio. Onders pioneered and used the then-experimental device in Christopher Reeve’s 2003 procedure.

Jesse Schold, Ph.D., of UF’s College of Medicine

Julie A. Johnson, professor of medicine at UF’s colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine and director of the UF Center for Pharmacogenomics

Nancy Mendenhall, M.D., an oncologist with UF’s College of Medicine

Dr. Amanda House, a veterinarian with the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, gets face to face with a horse in the foal unit in 2008.

UF’s equine neonatal intensive care unit offers state-of-the-art care to foals suffering from a variety of ailments.

M. Brent Seagle, M.D., an associate professor and chief of the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine, is now head of the Florida Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association.

Lucia Notterpek, Ph.D., has been appointed chair of the department of neuroscience at the University of Florida College of Medicine

How hammerhead ribozymes shut down herpes virus production
“Hammerhead ribozymes are RNA molecules that can recognize and cleave specific viral mRNA molecules. The ribozymes itself is unchanged and can repeat the reaction with another mRNA. Once the targeted mRNA has been cut, cellular enzymes will digest it completely so that no viral protein is produced.”

How herpes simplex virus causes blindness
“Herpes simplex viruses infect epithelial cells of the cornea (1&2) but move to the sensory neurons (3) where they may become inactive (latent) for many years (4).  They may also remain latent in the cornea itself (2a).  Upon stress, the herpes virus can reactivate (5), move back to the surface of the eye (6) and cause a new active outbreak (7).  Repeated reactivation can lead to corneal scarring and blindness.”

University of Florida researchers Alfred Lewin, a molecular geneticist, David Bloom, a virologist, and Sonal Tuli, an ophthalmologist, have teamed up to investigate a potential new therapy to prevent the recurrence of herpes.

Jay Levy, M.D., (left) one of the discoverers of HIV, speaking with University of Florida professor John Dame. Levy said the university can play a role in addressing the AIDS crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Jay A. Levy is director of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research at University of California, San Francisco

Joachim S. “Nik” Gravenstein, M.D.

Bruce Goldberger, Ph.D., forensic toxicologist and director of the William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine at UF

Alexander C. Wagenaar, Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology and health policy research at the UF College of Medicine.

Dr. R. Stan Williams, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Florida College of Medicine.

Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., will talk about efforts at the J. Craig Venter Institute to create a living bacterial cell based entirely on the synthetically made genome.

Elizabeth Warner, M.D., currently in her second year of research as part of her surgical residency training

Robert Winfield, M.D., a third-year clinical resident

Travis C. Jackson, (left) a graduate student of neuroscience working with Thomas C. Foster, Ph.D., the Evelyn F. McKnight chair for research on aging and memory at the University of Florida, may have pinpointed why some brain cells necessary for healthy memory can survive old age or disease, while similar cells hardly a millimeter away die. The finding could help scientists understand and find solutions for age-related memory loss.

The photo is an architect’s rendering of the UF’s new small animal hospital, officially known as the Veterinary Research & Education Center.

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