The College of Medicine's Dr. Maggie Blackburn, director of Rural Health, voiced her opinion in this "My View" in the Tallahassee Democrat. Blackburn expressed thanks and continuing appreciation to FSU's Dance Marathon fundraiser's organizers and dancers; every year the event raises tens of thousands of dollars that directly benefits children living in Gadsden County.

Hundreds of people from the College of Medicine and across the Florida State campus filled the atrium Tuesday afternoon to view the work on display at the medical school’s sixth annual Research Fair. The 67 posters – 12 more than last year’s total – represented the work of faculty members as well as students. Their areas of research included stem cells, fetal nerve cells, liver fibrosis, childhood obesity, Vitamins B12 and D, and yoga for breast cancer patients, among many others.

Positive aging will be the keynote speaker’s message at the upcoming Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Training Conference at the Florida State University College of Medicine. The 25th annual conference, scheduled for Feb. 20, is free and open to everyone. It will give the public, caregivers and health professionals the latest updates on Alzheimer’s disease.

Florida Surgeon General Ana Viamonte Ros will be the keynote speaker this weekend at the Latino Medical Student Association regional conference, taking place at the Florida State University College of Medicine.

See page  four  of this official publication of the Florida Council on Aging for information on Florida State University's new Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law.  Center director Marshall Kapp explains the center's mission to foster an agreeable relationship between the medical and law fields, instead of the conflicts that so often arise.  The FSU Colleges of Medicine and Law play integral roles in the center's development and ongoing projects.

In an opinion piece, former Herald-Tribune editor Waldo Proffitt mentions the College of Medicine as one of the four most important major institutions in the Sarasota-Manatee-Charlotte County area to help citizens age with dignity. Proffitt listed he college's Sarasota regional campus along with Sarasota Memorial Hospital, the Pines of Sarasota (a nursing home), and Senior Friendship Centers

PRESS RELEASE A team of Florida State University researchers will use a five-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a way to measure levels of the trace metal zinc in the human body. An abstract of the team’s research project, titled “Development of Sensitive Fluorescent Probes for Physiological Zn2+ Over Large Concentration Ranges,” is available at  http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=7784811

PRESS RELEASE A team of Florida State University researchers will use a five-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a way to measure levels of the trace metal zinc in the human body. An abstract of the team’s research project, titled “Development of Sensitive Fluorescent Probes for Physiological Zn2+ Over Large Concentration Ranges,” is available at  http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=7784811

For an October Grand Rounds, former FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte recalled what he went through -- alongside other early advocates of forming a college for Florida's underserved -- to make the College of Medicine a reality. Videos include D'Alemberte's speech, interview footage and a photo session next to the president emeritus' honorary statue. View the videos  here .

The College of Medicine's Dr. Curtis Stine and Dr. Luckey Dunn offer their input to this article's analysis of the U.S. Health and Human Services panel's recent recommendation for women to wait until age 50 to get their first mammogram.

PRESS RELEASE After a national search, Richard Nowakowski, Ph.D., has accepted an offer to join the Florida State University as professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the College of Medicine.

PRESS RELEASE Every New Year, many smokers resolve to kick the habit but older smokers may have a leg up on their younger counterparts, according to Florida State University researchers who developed an intensive 16-week cessation program.  Anxiety and Behavioral Health Clinic

Two of the college's students, Tanya Anim and Komal D'Souza, have been awarded scholarships from the National Health Service Corps. Both women will have their tuition and fees covered for the rest of their time in medical school, and each will also receive a monthly stipend of nearly $1,300. In exchange, Tanya and Komal will each spend at least two years in a medically-underserved community.

For the first-time, the Clinical Learning Center staff -- who are based in Tallahassee -- have taken to the road, traveling around the state to the college's six regional campuses. There, the staff members pose as patients in local doctor's offices, where third-year students to diagnose the ailments they pretend to be suffering from. This allows students to go through a simulated version of what diagnosing real patients' maladies will be like.

For the first-time, the Clinical Learning Center staff -- who are based in Tallahassee -- have taken to the road, traveling around the state to all of the college's six regional campuses. There, the staff members pose as patients in local doctor's offices, where third-year students to diagnose the ailments they pretend to be suffering from. This allows students to go through a simulated version of what diagnosing real patients' maladies will be like.

Although the state of Florida's medical schools are producing more doctors than ever before, many of those doctors must leave Florida, due to the limited number of residencies available within the state. With the problem becoming more well-known, legislators are trying to increase the number of residencies throughout the country and the state.

Each year, more and more FSU-trained physicians will be serving Florida’s communities. So on your next visit to the doctor’s office, take a close look at that white coat. You might see, embroidered at the top of the sleeve, a garnet-and-gold patch.

PRESS RELEASE Dance Marathon at Florida State University and Children’s Miracle Network at Shands Children’s Hospital at the University of Florida has presented a check for $182,456.42 to the FSU College of Medicine for the benefit of children throughout Gadsden and Leon counties.

The latest group of third-year students at the college's Ft. Pierce regional campus begin their rotations on Nov. 16 among local community agencies, such as the American Red Cross, the Council of Aging, PACE Center for Girls, Child Protection Team, Project Response AIDS Center, Children's Home Society, as well as many others.

At the college's second-annual fudge cook-off, over 200 students, faculty, staff and visitors sampled thirteen varieties of fudge and voted for their favorite. Each vote cost one dollar, and FSUCares raised over $875 through vote sales and a fudge auction. All proceeds went to Hogar Quietud, a home for destitute seniors in Tamaulipas, Mexico, where students have volunteered in years past.

On Monday, Nov. 2, the Children's Miracle Networks at Shands Hospital at UF, who are the official recipients of FSU's Dance Marathon's proceeds, presented the FSU College of Medicine with a check for $182,456.42 -- half the earnings of the 2009 fundraiser. The money will go towards providing medical care for children across the state.

Two FSU College of Medicine students, Tanya Anim and Komal D'Souza, have been awarded National Health Service Corps scholarships -- highly competitive government awards that cover the full cost of tuition and fees for all remaining years of medical school. Anim and D'Souza will spend a minimum of two years after graduation in a high-need medical area providing medical care to underserved populations.

Two FSU College of Medicine students, Tanya Anim and Komal D'Souza, have been awarded National Health Service Corps scholarships -- highly competitive government awards that cover the full cost of tuition and fees for all remaining years of medical school. Anim and D'Souza will spend a minimum of two years after graduation in a high-need medical area providing medical care to underserved populations.

On Monday, Nov. 2, the Children's Miracle Networks at Shands Hospital at UF, who are the official recipients of FSU's Dance Marathon's proceeds, presented the FSU College of Medicine with a check for $182,456.42 -- half the earnings of the 2009 fundraiser. The money will go towards providing medical care for children across the state.

Paul Elliott, who founded the Program in Medical Sciences (PIMS) at FSU in 1971, passed away October 24 from heart failure. Elliott's efforts to reach out to the rural and underserved populations of Florida laid the groundwork for the College of Medicine, which continues that effort today. Beginning the PIMS program was just one of Elliott's many accomplishments and contributions to Florida and the Tallahassee community.

George "Scottie" Whiddon, M.D. was recognized for excellence in diabetes care by the Florida Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and Big Bend Rural Health Network during a special ceremony Sept. 24. Whiddon practices family medicine in Quincy, Fl., and is a member of the college's clerkship faculty.

The College of Medicine is using its statewide network of clinical faculty to study new ways to encourage patients to quit smoking. By tailoring smoking cessation techniques directly to a faculty member's specific practice, researchers hope to find new ways for physicians to influence their patients' smoking decisions

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is ranked fourth in the nation for the percentage of its graduating doctors who choose to specialize in family medicine, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians

Third- and fourth-year students at the College of Medicine have the opportunity to work directly with esteemed doctors across Florida, such as Dr. Wayne Creelman at the University of Florida Center for Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine in Vero Beach. This article on the center's success features third-year Sarah McIver, who's in the process of completing her six-week psychiatry clerkship.

In this TIME story about Florida International University's new Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine - which focuses on training primary care doctors and on helping underserved populations - the FSU College of Medicine gets a shout-out as one of the FIU program's predecessors.

Biomedical Sciences Professor Michael Blaber recently saw his research ranked among the world's best structural biology labs. The National Institutes of Health awarded FSU's Autism Institute director Amy Wetherby $2.4 million for her research focusing on young children with autism.

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded $2.4 million to the FSU Autism Institute's Amy Wetherby, who works to diagnose autism in children as young as 18 months. The earlier the problem is identified, the more negative side effects can be reduced, and with the NIH funding Wetherby will conduct background research for an (eventual) autism screening program. This article was also featured on  PhysOrg.com ,  ABC Tallahassee 27 ,  Tampa Bay Online .

College of Medicine professor and dean of the Orlando Regional campus Michael Muszynski provides answers for an ABC News story covering the possibilities of contracting the flu virus from trick-or-treating or other Halloween festivities.

At the recent health care panel held at Brevard Community College, Dr. Raymond Bellamy, who is the director of surgery at the FSU College of Medicine, offered his insights into the debate over the nation's health coverage.

Biomedical Sciences professor Michael Blaber was recently ranked as having the 36th most influential structural biology research lab in the world. The National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association awarded Blaber with two recent grants to fund his research, which has focused on developing mutations of specific proteins for medical uses.

Stephen Patrick, M.D., wrote this AnnArbor.com editorial in response to Fox News labeling him (and other doctors in favor of health care reform) a "prop" for meeting with President Obama earlier this month at the White House. Patrick, who graduated from the FSU College of Medicine in 2007, is now a resident in Pediatrics at the University of Michigan.

Like several other Florida universities, the FSU College of Medicine has transplanted students to the state's Treasure Coast. Since 2007, the Fort Pierce campus at Indian River State College has hosted third and fourth-year FSU student med students as they train with local doctors.

After more than five years of research, Dr. Akash Gunjan, an assistant professor in the biomedical sciences department, solved a mystery of cell biology that has remained unsolved by scientists for over a century: why "free" histones don't accumulate in large amounts in human cells. With evidence supporting his new hypothesis, Gunjan's work may lead to a new understanding of the inner-workings of our cells... and therefore better ways to treat certain diseases, especially many kinds of cancer. This story was also posted by the following publications:  WCTV.com ,  R & D Magazine ,  PhysOrg.com ,  Science Blog ,  The Money Times ,  Science Centric ,  UPI.com , and  FSUnews.com .

Six first-year and two second-year FSU medical students received scholarships from the Capital Medical Society Foundation. The recipients were Erin Bascom, Jason Boothe, Laura Davis, Michelle Harper, Brittany Jackson, Bethann Mohamed, Sareh Shoraka, and Rashad Sullivan. Congratulations to them all!

PRESS RELEASE A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has been awarded two separate grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $2.4 million to continue her work in detecting autism in children as young as 18 months. Amy Wetherby is director of the Autism Institute in the College of Medicine. For more information on the FIRST WORDS® Project, visit  http://firstwords.fsu.edu .

PRESS RELEASE A Florida State University College of Medicine biomedical sciences professor has been recognized as having one of the most influential structural biology laboratories in the world.

PRESS RELEASE A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has solved a century-old mystery about proteins that play a vital role in the transfer of the human genetic code from one cell to another. The discovery could lead to finding new ways to help the body fight a variety of diseases, including cancer.  Nature Cell Biology article

PRESS RELEASE One way to address the nation’s increasing shortage of primary care doctors is to give medical students a financial incentive to practice medicine where the need is greatest. Two Florida State University College of Medicine students just got the strongest incentive of all: a scholarship that covers the entire cost of their remaining time in medical school. For more information on the National Health Service Corps, visit  http://nhsc.hrsa.gov/about/facts.htm .

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is using its statewide network of clinical faculty to study better ways to equip primary?care physicians to help patients stop smoking.

As our nation faces a potentially dire drought in primary care doctors, some young docs find that for them, the pros of family practice outweigh the cons. Many medical school students - and a sizable percentage of the College of Medicine's student body - must decide on their specialty during this stressful economic climate, as their bank account pushes them one way and our national need pulling them another.