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MIAMI – Dr. Lynn Harrison Jr., a nationally-recognized leader in cardiothoracic surgery, has joined Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery and professor of clinical cardiovascular surgery for Baptist Health South Florida. Harrison will help design the clinical experience in heart [...]
MIAMI – Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine announced today that it has signed an affiliation agreement with Broward Health, an agreement that will increase learning opportunities for its medical students in South Florida while expanding access to health care in the region. Broward Health is among the [...]
MIAMI – Dr. Barry T. Katzen, whose many career “firsts” include pioneering angioplasty, has joined Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs for Baptist Health South Florida. Katzen, who is founder and medical director of Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, will facilitate the relationship [...]
MIAMI – Dr. John Rock, Florida International University’s Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and founding Dean of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, has been inducted in Johns Hopkins University’s prestigious Society of Scholars. The society—the first of its kind in the nation—inducts former postdoctoral fellows, postdoctoral degree recipients, [...]
MIAMI –Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine announced today that it has signed an affiliation agreement with Memorial Healthcare System, expanding opportunities for its students while improving access to health care throughout South Florida. The South Broward Hospital District Board of Commissioners, which oversees the operations for Memorial [...]
MIAMI — The Miami-Dade County Health Department and Florida International University will establish the first Academic Health Department in Florida. The Miami-Dade County Health Department is planning to consolidate its administrative and program offices at FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus, bringing part of its workforce to southwest Miami-Dade and forming a [...]
MIAMI – Dr. Omar M. Pasalodos has been named chairman of FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Advisory Council, a board of community leaders who help connect the college to the community. Pasalodos, 59, has a wide range of administrative experience both on hospital committees, and since his retirement, as [...]
WHAT: Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine is partnering with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to organize FIU’s first annual Great Strides walk-a-thon. Across the country, tens of thousands come together each year to walk and participate in the foundation’s largest national fundraising event, meant to bring awareness and [...]
MIAMI – The State University System (SUS) has called upon its students, faculty and staff throughout Florida to mobilize resources in support of Haiti’s recovery. Immediately following the earthquake, Chancellor Frank Brogan asked each university president to identify available resources, including equipment and human resources. The FIU Colleges of Medicine, Nursing [...]
Dr. Seza Gulec, an FIU Wertheim College of Medicine professor of surgery and radiology/ nuclear medicine, is a leading researcher in the development of this treatment and was the first in the United States to use SIRT in combination with chemotherapy for the treatment of liver cancers. He was originally [...]
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