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Top left: UF Health ShandsTop right: Bayfront Health systemsBottom left: Orlando HealthBottom right: Tallahassee Memorial Hospital At UF Health Shands Hospital, commitment to providing the best possible care applies not just to patients in the Gainesville community, but also statewide and even across the country. One…
November is National Adoption Awareness Month and Prematurity Awareness Month. We asked Adam and Jennifer Bess, parents of a premature adopted baby, to share their touching story. Find out how they struggled to adopt and fatefully found their daughter, Hannah Rose. Our adoption journey started…
At the time, Jennifer Pearce, RN, had spent more than five years in the NICU at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital caring for the tiny patients fighting for their lives, and encouraging parents dealing with an unthinkable struggle. Like every other parent in the unit, she never expected that…
Buddy Baird and Dave Walker, owners of Gamers HQ On an Autumn Saturday each year since 2008, tens of thousands of gamers have joined together to save the lives of local kids in a celebration of gaming culture we call Extra Life. From console games to tabletop role-playing…
Help Children’s Miracle Network at UF Health Shands Hospital and join the efforts of thousands of gamers who have band together to save the lives of local kids in a celebration of gaming culture called Extra Life. From console games to board games to even lawn sports, Extra Life gives…
As Chris Brown, director of the UF Health Child Life Program, and Ron Farb, co-founder of the Climb for Cancer Foundation, set up the multisensory environment machine, the excitement among the pediatric patients is drowned out by the “oohhs” and “aahhs” of the doctors and nurses.
This month, the Department of Pediatrics at UF will honor two inaugural Children’s Miracle Network Scholars, Dr. Roland Herzog and Dr. Arun Srivastava, for their substantial contributions to the world of pediatric medicine and research. Get to know these two researchers better, as we learn more about topics like…
Taking a closer look at the impact two professors in the Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapy in the Department of Pediatrics are having on hemophilia treatment Dr. Brad Hoffman, assistant professor of pediatrics, performing sterile tissue culture work. People thought Arun Srivastava, Ph.D., and Roland Herzog, Ph.D.,…
If you covered up the green and yellow bruises on Brett Palaschak’s arms, you would never know he was different from any other 22-year-old. The only things that really separates him, he said, are the three 10-minute blood clotting factor infusions he injects into himself each week as part of…
By Styliana Resvanis Growing up in a family of physicians, Joan Anderson never quite became acquainted with the nursing side of health care. But that all changed in 2011 when she witnessed her sister Judith in the care of nurses at UF Health Shands Hospital. “They…
