This month, new College of Medicine professor Tim Megraw received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for his work dealing with cell division and how it relates to cancer.

Thomasville, GA pediatrician Dr. Tim Jones received the college's Guardian of the Mission Award in September, 2009. Jones practices at The Pediatric Center in Thomasville and Cairo, GA, and at Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville. He's been a Thomasville clerkship faculty member for almost four years.

FSU's college of medicine has been ranked 7th in the nation for Hispanic students, according to Hispanic Business magazine. This is a step up from 2008's rankings, which ranked the college 11th.

FSU Alumna and long-time supporter Mina Jo Powell, whose generous support helped establish the college of medicine, passed away peacefully in her home on Sept. 8. She was 81.

In preparation for his presidency of the American Medical Association next year, Dr. Cecil Wilson said that the health care reform is necessary for the American medical system, but getting it right is going to be a difficult process.

PRESS RELEASE Florida State University’s colleges of law and medicine are among the Top 10 best in the nation for Hispanics, according to Hispanic Business magazine, which has published its annual rankings of graduate schools in the magazine’s September issue.

As reported in their September issue, Hispanic Business magazine named FSU as one of the nation's top ten medical schools for Hispanic students.

Florida State University's College of Medicine has implemented new technology to teach students how to handle unique medical conditions and identify emergency treatments. The four robots can be controlled by professors to teach the students how to respond to a given situation.

PRESS RELEASE If you don’t know how a human cell is supposed to work, it’s hard to offer a good explanation when the cell goes haywire -- as it does in cancer. That’s why a Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has been awarded a $1.2 million grant to explore the role of centrosomes and cilia in cell division and development and their connections to human disease.

Eight women from Westminster Oaks Retirement community took part in a Reynolds Grant project aimed at showing students, faculty and staff successful images of aging. The group, who dubbed themselves "Off Our Rockers," performed in the college's atrium with a sizable audience looking on.  

PRESS RELEASE Two local physicians who teach third- and fourth- year medical students at the Florida State University College of Medicine Pensacola regional campus received awards for their dedication to teaching and commitment to upholding the college’s mission.

PRESS RELEASE The College of Medicine’s mission – which includes training physicians to practice culturally relevant and sensitive primary care – doesn’t stop in Florida, or even at U.S. borders. For more than two years, the college has worked with Kazakhstan to help improve the republic’s medical education and research systems.

PRESS RELEASE Latino children have been particularly hard hit by the childhood obesity epidemic in America, but a Florida State University College of Medicine researcher is looking at ways rural clinics and school health programs can help curb the trend.

PRESS RELEASE Rhodes Scholar and College Football All-American Myron L. Rolle and his family today announced plans to build the Myron L. Rolle Medical Clinic and Sports Complex, in Steventon, Exuma in the Bahamas, where the Rolle family originates. For information on the Myron L. Rolle Foundation visit  http://myronrolle.com/ .

For the past four years, the Florida State University Research Foundation has funded a highly competitive grant program designed to support Florida State researchers as they seek to transfer their technology out of the laboratory and into the commercial marketplace.  For more information on the Grant Assistance Program at The Florida State University, visit: http://www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/gap/

PRESS RELEASE Childhood obesity has become increasingly worrisome for many American families, and Latino children in particular are more likely to gain dangerous extra pounds. Curbing this trend in the Latino population has been the focus of many national studies, one soon to be based in the Florida State University College of Medicine.

PRESS RELEASE Addressing disparities in Florida’s physician workforce requires starting early – long before the start of the medical-school admissions process. The Florida State University College of Medicine, through its outreach programs, seeks first to tilt the odds in favor of finding more qualified medical students from underrepresented backgrounds.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University College of Medicine is the new home of a think tank created to coordinate Florida’s efforts at curing diseases. For more information about FL CURED, visit  http://www.flcured.org

PRESS RELEASE Informing men that a new vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) would also help protect their female partners against developing cervical cancer from the sexually transmitted infection did not increase their interest in getting the vaccine, according to a new Florida State University study.

PRESS RELEASE One advantage of having a world-class simulation center is being able to share it in ways that will lead to improved public health. In mid-June, the College of Medicine provided a training exercise in which public-health workers and others were introduced to the concept of managing and containing a threat to community health.

PRESS RELEASE Student groups often host events that interest their members, but the Jewish Medical Students’ Association at Florida State University recently held an educational fair that offered an invaluable gift: a free genetic screening. Most people are not aware that approximately one in five Jewish people carries the gene for a Jewish genetic disease – that is, a disease that occurs far more often within the Ashkenazi Jewish population. 
For more information on the Victor Center or Jewish genetic diseases, please visit  http://www.victorcenters.org .

Graduation day arrived Saturday for the 73 members of the Florida State University College of Medicine’s Class of 2009. Although the event took place in a church, that didn’t stop air horns from blasting, ecstatic families from cheering and graduation caps from sailing toward the rafters.

PRESS RELEASE At a recent Saturday-morning fitness fair, many of the volunteers were students from the College of Medicine. So was the organizer, second-year student Andrew Cooke, who developed the event with residents of the Capital Park are.
View photos from the event.

PRESS RELEASE One of the advantages of a medical school that’s spread across multiple campuses, Dean John Fogarty said Thursday, “is that we can give out more awards.” And the awards were nonstop during the afternoon presentation in the Florida State University College of Medicine auditorium.

PRESS RELEASE As the cases of swine flu increase in the United States and around the world, here are observations and suggestions from Dr. Robert Brooks. He’s associate dean for health affairs at the Florida State University College of Medicine, an expert in infectious diseases and former secretary of the Florida Department of Health. One excellent source Brooks recommends is  http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu .    

PRESS RELEASE The College of Medicine, the youngest fully accredited medical school in the nation, made the U.S. News and World Report’s 2010 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” for the first time, ranking 56th in primary care out of 146 allopathic and osteopathic medical schools.

In response to a worrisome rise in childhood obesity, Florida school districts have begun to monitor student growth development every year, but there is little research available to determine if the effort is having an effect. Now, with a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and with the cooperation of Leon County Schools, a Florida State University College of Medicine researcher will explore the impact of school-based screening on student fitness and parent behavior.

Long known for his commitment to increasing access to health care for residents of rural communities, former Florida State University College of Medicine Dean J. Ocie Harris is being recognized for his efforts. Harris has been selected to receive the National Rural Health Association’s 2009 Distinguished Educator Award.

PRESS RELEASE Westcott Lakes at SouthWood is kicking off Older Americans Month with an Informational seminar at The Florida State University College of Medicine entitled Positive Aging…a Stimulus Package for Life.

PRESS RELEASE The Florida State University and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare have signed an agreement to work as research partners on projects with potential to directly impact health care in the Big Bend and across Florida. The agreement will allow Tallahassee Memorial Hospital’s more than 500 affiliated physicians, many of whom already serve as members of the FSU College of Medicine clinical faculty, to conduct laboratory research and clinical trials with university researchers from the medical school as well as other colleges and departments.

PRESS RELEASE A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher is among the first scientists in the country to directly benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - the stimulus bill. The National Institutes of Health, using new funds provided through the stimulus bill, has awarded Mohamed Kabbaj $400,000 for a two-year study aiming to answer critical elements of a core question related to depression: What are the molecular mechanisms implicated in chronic stress-induced depression?

All 73 students in the FSU College of Medicine Class of 2009 received notification today of where they will enter residency training this summer after graduation.

PRESS RELEASE On Thursday, 73 members of the Florida State University College of Medicine Class of 2009 will find out where they will receive residency training -- a defining moment in their medical careers -- during a Match Day ceremony.

PRESS RELEASE With the nation’s economic crisis contributing to greater workplace stress, providing effective mental health care for employees may be more important than ever. Unfortunately, the approach most companies take in purchasing mental health care benefits is flawed and unlikely to produce the best outcomes for either their bottom line or their employees’ welfare, according to a Florida State University College of Medicine researcher.

PRESS RELEASE A Florida State University historian who specializes in the history of medicine, cultural history and intellectual history has received a major award given to young scholars in his field.

PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE Inspired by the strong trend toward smoke-free environments, companies across Florida are making it easier for their employees to find the tools and encouragement to finally kick their dangerous habit. Florida’s Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) have sponsored a public program called Quit Smoking NOW since 1999, and now privately-owned companies can hold the class for their own employees who wish to quit smoking. For more information on the QSN program, visit   http://www.ahectobacco.com .

PRESS RELEASE Stephen Shore, author of “Understanding Autism for Dummies,” will join the Florida State University Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) in an effort to raise funds for the FSU Autism Project.

PRESS RELEASE This year marks the 200th birthday of pioneering naturalist Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book “The Origin of Species,” truly a landmark work that changed the world. Celebrations and tributes, both large and small, are scheduled around the globe this year, and many are already under way.

PRESS RELEASE A unique discovery in a Florida State University College of Medicine laboratory is the basis for research with the potential to one day help scientists learn how to stop cancer and other diseases in the tissue where they are forming.

PRESS RELEASE Only 1 percent of smokers who try to quit are smoke-free one year later, but those resolving to kick the habit in 2009 may be able to improve their odds by participating in an intensive treatment program developed by Florida State University researchers.

PRESS RELEASE Fourteen members of the first class of students to graduate from The Florida State University College of Medicine recently completed the journey to becoming full-time practicing physicians.

PRESS RELEASE A Florida State University College of Medicine research team led by Yanchang Wang has discovered an important new layer of regulation in the cell division cycle, which could lead to a greater understanding of the way cancer begins.

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.

PRESS RELEASE The discovery of a protein involved in the life-threatening mechanism of liver fibrosis has helped a researcher at the Florida State University College of Medicine attract a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.