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UF Medical Guild awards task force funding for AEDs and CPR training in East Gainesville
The UF Medical Guild has awarded grant funding to 14 nonprofit organizations to support communitywide health and wellness projects, including one aimed at helping improve survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest in East Gainesville.
Caring for communities
A group of UF College of Medicine students and faculty recently traveled to Florida’s Gulf Coast to help provide medical care to more than 500 patients over the course of two days.
UF Health, Stanford get $7.6 million grant to expand diabetes program
A program designed to improve access to care and health outcomes for children and adults with Type 1 diabetes will be expanded with a $7.6 million, three-year grant from The Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
Student-run Equal Access Clinic Network receives financial boost from UF Medical Guild
Through a gift of $250,000, the UF Medical Guild created an endowment for the Equal Access Clinic Network, a free medical service in the Gainesville community staffed entirely by medical, nursing, pharmacy, public health and dentistry students under the guidance of UF Health faculty.
University of Florida and UF Health announce $12 million gift from Orlando business leader to launch brain tumor research initiative
The University of Florida has received a $12 million gift from Orlando hotel magnate Harris Rosen and The Harris Rosen Foundation to advance innovative brain tumor immunotherapy research and care at UF Health and to launch an unprecedented partnership for the development of novel brain tumor treatments.
Terrace connecting hospital towers honors Drs. Martin and Sandy Fackler
A third-floor terrace connecting the UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital with the new UF Health Heart & Vascular Hospital and UF Health Neuromedicine Hospital will bear the names of Drs. Martin and Sandra Fackler.
Employees raise more than $200K through Raising Hope at Work
More than 1,800 faculty and staff members participated in the annual employee giving campaign.
Local nonprofit makes gift for dementia research at UF
Fraternal Order of Eagles of Gainesville give $50K to support fontotemporal dementia research at the University of Florida.
Funding hope: Parkinson’s patient on the road again
When he was 38 years old, Doug Kirk remembers how things like brushing his teeth or raising his left arm became difficult. He wasn’t able to sleep. Even sitting for extended periods of time proved painful. But this summer, he and his wife Sheila will cycle for more than 450 miles along the scenic southern hills of Iowa.
