Biomedical engineering faculty present research to industry insiders at FIU-hosted conference

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FIU Biomedical Engineering hosted the daylong EDC BioTech 2012 Conference in the Graham Center Ballrooms at Modesto A. Madique Campus May 9 – a move that reaffirmed the university’s commitment to South Florida’s development as a life sciences corridor. Recently, FIU convened Life Sciences South Florida, a work group comprised [...]

FIU Health opens its doors to South Florida community

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Physicians with the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University are now available to see patients through FIU Health, a unified system that provides access to world-class care. Unveiled today to community leaders, FIU Health includes many of the best doctors in South Florida, in addition to nationally [...]

FIU avoids deepest budget cuts

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In a message to the university community March 6, President Mark B. Rosenberg addresses possible cuts to the 2012-13 budget. Dear FIU community: The legislative conference process has taken place in Tallahassee and we now have a better idea of what cuts we will be subject to in the 2012-13 [...]

FIU joins First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative to help take care of veterans and families

As part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Joining Forces initiative, announced this week, FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine has joined medical schools around the nation in pledging commitment to creating a new generation of doctors, medical schools, and research facilities that will make sure America’s heroes receive medical care worthy [...]

Faculty/staff health practice now offers radiology services, more specialties

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Three years after becoming a patient of the FIU Health Faculty Group Practice (FGP), Lymari Robles says she wishes all her doctors were like Yolangel Hernandez Suarez, M.D., FGP’s chief medical officer. “She’s a very nice person. I have lots of fun every time I go see her. And that’s [...]

Faculty Group Practice opens new offices in PG5

The FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Faculty Group Practice (FGP) is open for business in its new home in PG5-Market Station at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. The 6,100-square-foot offices feature 10 patient exam rooms, which are all ADA compliant. Physicians can access patient records from the exam rooms. This new location [...]

College of Medicine welcomes Class of 2015

“Your son or daughter is about to enter a world that will transform them. They will never be the same, so enjoy this moment.” With those words, Dr. Mark Multach, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine in FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, signalled the start of [...]

FIU’s Wertheim College of Medicine to welcome 82 students to medical profession in White Coat Ceremony

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Vincent Boston’s desire to be a doctor was cemented during his five years as a Navy medic. When he applied to Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, he wrote a personal essay where he recounted one particularly harrowing experience in Iraq: He was on a helicopter on a [...]

Florida House Speaker Cannon at FIU: ‘It is easy to advocate for excellence’

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Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon visited the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine July 19 to learn about the college’s progress and meet FIU students, faculty and administrators. Cannon, who was joined by the Miami-Dade legislative delegation, toured a Nursing and Health Sciences STAR Simulation Lab that mimics a hospital emergency [...]

Tour new Faculty Group Practice Aug. 3

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The FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Faculty Group Practice (FGP) is moving to a new state-of-the art facility in PG5-Market Station at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Faculty and staff are invited to tour the new facility during an open house Wednesday, Aug. 3, from noon to 2 p.m. [...]