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UF&Shands recruits health care leader as new chief quality officer

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Randy Harmatz, formerly the vice president of the quality program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, has been named the chief quality officer for UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center.
As part of her role, she will oversee the Sebastian Ferrero Office of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety at [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Monday, September 19, 2011.

UF&Shands names chief communications officer

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A nationally recognized medical writer and public relations practitioner has been named chief communications officer for UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center.

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Friday, September 16, 2011.

Leading children’s health expert to head UF department of pediatrics

GAINESVILLE — An international expert on pediatric endocrinology, developmental biology and the prevention of brain injury in preterm infants has been tapped to lead the University of Florida College of Medicine department of pediatrics and serve as the physician leader for Shands Hospital for Children.

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Monday, September 12, 2011.

UF names new clinical and health psychology department chairman

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Leading drug dependence and infectious disease epidemiologist William W. Latimer has been named chairman of the department of clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions.

Filed under InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Tuesday, July 19, 2011.

Harvard curator to speak at this fall’s ButterflyFest

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Naomi Pierce, curator of Lepidoptera at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, has been scheduled as the keynote speaker for the Florida Museum of Natural History’s sixth annual ButterflyFest, Oct. 22-23.
ButterflyFest is dedicated to increasing awareness of Florida’s butterflies as fun, fascinating ambassadors to the natural world. Event activities and presentations [...]

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Friday, July 8, 2011.

New chief of acute care surgery starts at UF

GAINESVILLE — Dr. Frederick A. Moore has joined the University of Florida’s College of Medicine as the department of surgery’s chief of acute care surgery.

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Thursday, July 7, 2011.

Florida Sea Grant specialist receives fellowship to study climate change

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thomas Ruppert, a coastal planning specialist with the Florida Sea Grant College Program, has been awarded an international fellowship to advance climate change mitigation issues with counterparts in the country of Colombia.

Filed under InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Thursday, June 16, 2011.

John Hayes named interim dean for UF/IFAS research

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — John Hayes, chairman of the University of Florida’s wildlife ecology and conservation department, has been appointed interim dean for research for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences by Jack Payne, UF senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources.

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.

Changes to UF wireless network access begin May 1

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Starting May 1, if your personal or University of Florida-issued laptop runs Microsoft Windows and you use it to connect to the UF wireless network, then your laptop must clear a security check every seven days to connect to the UF wireless network.

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Friday, April 22, 2011.

Fraternity raises $1,500 for local fire department

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity held its first annual Pike’s Fireman Challenge Saturday to benefit the Gainesville Fire Rescue Department.

Filed under Announcements, InsideUF (Campus), Note This on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.