Andrew Aboujaoude says, “I’ve just always wanted to fix the world around me.” And the junior biomedical sciences major at the UCF College of Medicine is doing just that by providing blood pressure screenings to Orlando’s homeless. His efforts have earned the pre-med student statewide recognition and a feature in the national business magazine Forbes. Aboujaoude established a … [Read more...]
Watch College Football, Support Breast Cancer
If you love college football, Dec. 16’s AutoNation Cure Bowl in Orlando gives you a chance to enjoy your favorite sport – and help beat breast cancer at the same time. The Cure Bowl is the only NCAA football bowl game with a charity in its name, and proceeds support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), the largest private funder of breast cancer research worldwide. … [Read more...]
Diversity and Inclusion Mean Better Care
We know that the best doctors are also great communicators – people who are excellent in the science of medicine and also can engage fully with those in their care. As our nation becomes more diverse, physicians – and, frankly, all health care providers – must do more to understand their own backgrounds and those of their patients. I always have hoped that the UCF College of … [Read more...]
Viruses That Kill Cancer – A Potential New Treatment from UCF
Four years ago, Candace Fox watched her grandfather die of aggressive lung cancer, and at that moment, she committed herself to finding a cure. Today the 24 year-old Ph.D. student at the UCF College of Medicine, is doing just that. She is genetically altering a parainfluenza virus that usually causes respiratory infections to selectively attack cancer cells. In the lab at … [Read more...]
An Army Medic Takes on Med School at UCF
Tears rolled freely from Vicki Dorsett Hayes’ eyes as she watched her grandson, 34-year-old Ryan Sylvester, receive his white coat, marking the beginning of his journey at the UCF College of Medicine. “It’s almost unbelievable. I’m getting emotional because...he has come a long way,” said the retired nurse who helped raised Ryan. “But I didn’t have to say to him to persevere … [Read more...]
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