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2016 Department of Medicine, Celebration of Research

Join us in congratulating Anthony Cannella, MD, Nancy Seraphin, PhD, Justin May, and Mohammed Khan for taking home awards at the 2016 Department of Medicine, Celebration of Research event. Dr. Cannella won in the Assistant Professor Translational Science category for his poster “T Cell Subtypes and Reciprocal Inflammatory Mediator Expression…

Global Health-Hospital Medicine Fellowship

  The University of Florida and Innovating Health International have begun recruitment for the 2017-2018 class of the Global Health-Hospital Medicine Fellowship. Innovating Health International is a medical service delivery and public health non-profit organization in Haiti. We are looking for internal or family medicine doctors interested in spending…

New International Travel Clinic!

Offering travelers country specific vaccinations and antibiotic prophylaxis not generally available at primary care practices, as well as health safety counseling. Whether your trip is for business or pleasure, we can help ensure you are protected. Vaccines available: Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis A/B Combo HPV Japanese Encephalitis…

DoM Excellence in Teaching Awards 2017 – Infectious Disease Winners

This year the department of medicine honored a number of outstanding teachers for the 2017 DoM Excellence in Teaching Awards. Our division had four physicians who were honored and recognized for their dedication to teaching our students – future physicians and scientists. Congratulations!  …

Congratulations Dr. Gary Wang

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) recognized Dr. Gary Wang as a fellow given his achieved professional excellence and significant service to the profession. Dr. Wang received a NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) Dr. Wang’s research on the role of gut bacterial tryptophanase in…

Dr. Cannella’s Research on the Immunology of Neglected Diseases

Dr. Anthony P. Cannella can be described as a triple threat. He serves as an attending physician, researcher and professor at the University of Florida. Along with his research role at the Emerging Pathogens Institute, Dr. Cannella who is an assistant professor of Medicine for the Division of Infectious Diseases…

Dr. Vittor’s Research on Emergent Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus

  Research on emergent eastern equine encephalitis virus in Darien, Panama in collaboration with the Gorgas Memorial Institute (GMI), Panama   South American eastern equine encephalitis virus (family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus) typically does not cause disease in humans. In 2010, however, there was an outbreak in the Darien that…

Welcome to our 2015 Infectious Diseases Fellows

The Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program provides strong training in a dynamic academic environment with opportunities in the usual clinical arena and research and on the field experiences. Request Information for Fellowship Program Name* E-mail* Address Do you have any preferred area of interest?…

Haiti Biosafety Lab Grand Opening

On Wednesday, April 23 2014, the University of Florida inaugurated the new Biosafety Level 3 lab in Haiti. The 1,500-square-foot facility will be used to the train researchers to better understand and fight tuberculosis in Haiti. Researchers that will be trained in this new BSL-3 lab will be…