May 01, 2012
A study, led by Miller School physicians, has found that seagulls and pelicans on Miami Beach may be among the birds carrying one of the most frequently found resistance genes among community patients.
May 01, 2012
Vilma Gonzalez, who was tormented by pelvic pain that never ceased, owes her transformation to Dennis J. Patin, M.D., associate professor of clinical anesthesiology, who specializes in tailoring solutions for mitigating relentless pain.
May 01, 2012
In honor of National Donate Life Month this April, the Miller School/UHealth – University of Miami Health System joined forces with the Department of Surgery’s Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency to increase the number of registered organ and tissue donors in the country by 20 million by the end of 2012.
May 01, 2012
José Szapocznik, Ph.D., professor and chair of epidemiology and public health and director of the Center for Family Studies, has received registration in the United States and Europe for the trademarked Brief Strategic Family Therapy® Program, which he pioneered at the Miller School more than three decades ago.
April 25, 2012
On April 27, Miami Marlins President David Samson will embark on a 50-mile “Run to Honor the Workers” from Pompano Beach to Miami to commemorate the 5,000 construction workers who labored for three years to build the new Marlins Park and raise funds for 10 organizations, including the UM Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence.
April 24, 2012
The Miller School’s Nanette Bishopric, M.D., professor of medicine, pediatrics and pharmacology, and her research team have discovered a natural mechanism that inhibits growth of the heart, a finding that could lead to the development of therapeutic agents for patients with hypertrophic hearts
April 24, 2012
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology was the first to offer formal robotic surgery training sessions for its residents, including a bedside orientation and console practice session last month at University of Miami Hospital.
April 24, 2012
A record 640 runners took part in the Golden Key Gets SunSmart 5K Run/Walk on Key Biscayne to educate the community about sun safety and provide free skin cancer screenings.
April 24, 2012
Philip D. Harvey, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and chief of the Division of Psychology, is the first recipient of the Schizophrenia International Research Society’s Outstanding Clinical/Community Research Award, considered the society’s highest honor.
April 24, 2012
On April 27, Miami Marlins President David Samson will host a “Run to Honor the Workers,” a 50-mile run from Pompano Beach to Miami to commemorate the 5,000 construction workers who labored for three years to build the new Marlins Park and raise $500,000 for 10 organizations, including the UM Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence.
April 23, 2012
A new analysis by a team of researchers at the Miller School’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that Hispanic lung cancer patients seem to live longer than white or black patients.
April 17, 2012
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and King Saud University’s department of ophthalmology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, are partnering in a new venture to significantly enhance ophthalmic education, clinical services and research activities for students at both universities.
April 17, 2012
Show your support for Sylvester by contacting Governor Rick Scott at 850-488-7146 or rick.scott@eog.myflorida.com.
April 17, 2012
Starting April 17,the UHealth Travel Medicine Clinic is open to UM faculty and staff, and their dependents, who need itinerary-specific medical advice and vaccinations for any travel, including business, personal or educational trips.
April 10, 2012
The Marlins Opening Day festivities marked the beginning of a new partnership for UHealth-University of Miami Health System, the official and exclusive sports medicine provider for Miami’s rechristened baseball team.
March 27, 2012
Following the theme “The Year of the Patient Experience,” Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., kicked off the 15th session of the Leadership Development Institute by recounting a recent encounter with Quint Studer, the well-known health care consultant who helped UHealth-University of Miami Health System launch its patient-centered initiative UCare .
March 13, 2012
Transplant surgeons from UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital performed an innovative and unprecedented combined transplant of a liver, two kidneys and a pancreas on 6-year-old Angela Bushi, who was discharged on February 23.
March 13, 2012
Philip D. Harvey, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and chief of the Division of Psychology, has been awarded a $3.2 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health to study schizophrenia and improve treatment for the disorder that impairs the ability to function in everyday settings.
March 13, 2012
Miller School faculty, staff and students are urged to join Team UM for the 5K, or 3.1-mile, race, which begins at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, in downtown Miami.
March 13, 2012
Corneliu Luca, M.D., Ph.D., the Miller School’s movement disorder fellow and neurology instructor, has been awarded a 2012 American Academy of Neurology Clinical Research Training Fellowship to test a possible medication for patients with Parkinson’s disease who have impaired gait.
March 13, 2012
In an effort to keep faculty and employees informed through a period of rapid change at the Miller School and UHealth-University of Miami Health System, Dean Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D., held a series of town hall meetings this month to discuss the medical enterprise’s progress and changes to his leadership team.
March 12, 2012
Scientists at the Diabetes Research Institute have developed a revolutionary technique to provide critical oxygen to insulin-producing cells after transplantation, assuring their long-term survival and inching closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes.
March 07, 2012
Stephen D. Nimer, M.D., one of the world’s premier leukemia and stem cell transplant researchers and clinicians, has been named the new director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
March 06, 2012
Jonathan “Jack” Lord, M.D., who became the University’s chief innovation officer when he returned to his alma mater after three decades in leadership roles that spanned the health care spectrum, has been named chief operating officer of the Miller School and UHealth-University of Miami Health System.
March 06, 2012
The City of Miami has started a free trolley service for the Health and Stadium Districts. Both routes include several stops on the Miller School/UHealth and Jackson Memorial Medical Center campus, including the UM Life Science & Technology Park.
March 06, 2012
Just as advertised, the doors to the University of Miami’s newest employee walk-in clinic opened at 7:30 a.m. sharp on February 27.
March 06, 2012
Although there is much certainty in the science behind mental health and addiction disorders, many people still need to be educated or reminded that the diseases can be effectively treated. That’s part of the mission of the first Mental Health and Addiction Disorders Science Summit, which Charles Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., chair of psychiatry addressed on February 15.
Read more about the Mental Health and Addiction Disorders Science Summit »
March 01, 2012
A new Miller School study has identified two cardiac biomarkers that could be early indicators of heart damage in childhood cancer survivors. The study, another major step in determining cardiac damage in childhood cancer patients, was led by Steven E. Lipshultz, M.D., professor and chair of pediatrics and executive associate dean for child health.
February 28, 2012
Some 380 guests from South Florida and beyond attended the 50th Anniversary Gala of the Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology on Saturday, February 25, at The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach. Amid socializing, dining, dancing, and entertainment by comedian and television personality Jay Leno, attendees learned about the Miller School’s long legacy of neurological excellence.
February 27, 2012
The first patient in Florida to receive a novel vaccine for brain cancer, Cathy Hoffman-Booker is optimisitc about her participation in a clinical trial using a vaccine derived from her own brain tumor – a glioblastoma multiforme, the most common form of brain cancer.
February 21, 2012
About 740 donors, faculty, administrators and friends celebrated the Februrary 16 public launch of the Momentum2 campaign at the BankUnited Center, where President Shalala announced that $906 million, including $100 million from the Diabetes Research Institute, has been raised so far.
February 21, 2012
The University opens its second Health ‘Canes Employee Clinic, this one in the McKnight Building on the Coral Gables campus.
February 21, 2012
In a study that provides practical tools for identifying pediatric cancer survivors at high risk for premature death from atherosclerosis, Miller School researchers found that teenagers and young adults who survived childhood cancer have increased odds of already having blocked arteries, as well as an elevated risk of suffering a myocardial infarction, stroke, or coronary death over the next 30 years.
February 16, 2012
Yvonne M. Diaz, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has been named to the new position of chief academic officer for UHealth-University of Miami Health System. In her new role, Diaz will work in partnership with Michael Lewis, M.D., senior associate dean for graduate medical education, specifically overseeing graduate medical education at University of Miami Hospital.
February 14, 2012
Four UM researchers offered a glimpse of the exciting cancer research taking place at the Miller School at the 2012 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, the largest meeting in the world dedicated to research and breakthroughs in gastrointestinal malignancies.
February 14, 2012
The Miller School’s International Medicine Institute and Angiografía de Occidente S.A., the institute’s affiliate in Cali, Colombia, are collaborating on assessing the feasibility and safety of Direct Flow, Inc.’s new transcatheter aortic valve implantation device.
February 07, 2012
When Jochen Reiser, M.D., Ph.D., the Peggy and Harold Katz Professor of Medicine and vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine, joined the Miller School four years ago as chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, the division boasted an excellent clinical program with a strong focus on kidney transplantation.
February 07, 2012
When Julio C. Albornoz, a trauma and critical care nurse in the U.S. Navy Reserve, was dropped in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province wearing 70 pounds of body armor and carrying a pair of guns, there was a planned lull at the British medical unit where he was assigned.
February 07, 2012
The University is looking for team leaders and volunteers for this year’s Corporate Run/Walk on Thursday, April 26, at Bayfront Park, 301 N. Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, beginning at 6:45 p.m.
February 03, 2012
Just in time to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Chairman Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D., has announced plans to significantly expand clinical care and research at all four of its facilities across South Florida.
February 03, 2012
People who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death, according to a new study led by Hannah Gardener, Sc.D., epidemiologist in the Miller School’s Department of Neurology.
January 25, 2012
Former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Mark “Super” Duper had a rough ride during the second annual Dolphins Cycling Challenge on November 5, 2011. He never dreamed that as he was riding his bicycle to raise money for Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in memory of Dolphins great Jim “Mad Dog” Mandich, there was a cancerous tumor growing inside his own body.
January 24, 2012
The Miller School of Medicine has launched the first-in-the-nation Heart Recovery Center, further underscoring its expertise in treating cardiovascular disease.
January 24, 2012
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Medicine have integrated services, opening the Medical Psychiatric Unit at University of Miami Hospital — the only medical psychiatry unit in South Florida.
Read more about the Medical Psychiatric Unit at University of Miami Hospital »
January 03, 2012
A Breakthrough Medicine blitz will begin on Saturday, January 7, with the rebroadcast of Tiny Miracles: Life-Saving Surgery Within a Mother’s Womb. The newest episode, Hearing is Believing: Treating a Child’s Deafness, will premiere on Saturday, January 28.