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Dr. Natalie Lockney (left), Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, will join the UF Health Cancer Center Women’s Cancer Wellness Symposium at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center on Thursday, March 14, 2019. Tea and refreshments will be served. The symposium, scheduled from 2 – 4 p.m., will feature three presentations by…
Kari Bastow, Radiation Oncology Research Administration Manager, received the 2018 Research Staffer of the Year Award on January 9, 2019. Kari coordinates the administrative efforts for all grants submissions, research agreements, and clinical trial budget negations. The award recognized her extraordinary contributions to UF Cancer Center research successes. “Through her…
The University of Florida Department of Radiation Oncology’s most recent Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey, which measures the overall rating of care and other components of the patient experience, ranked the department in the 99th percentile overall, including facility-related responses. Patients receive the survey within 24 hours of a hospital…
Dr. Sadasivan Vidyasagar (shown left), Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, serves as the principal inventor with a UF research team that developed enterade®, a combination of proprietary amino acid blends to help patients with GI issues related to cancer or chronic GI disease. “We’ve selected amino acids…
Paul Okunieff, MD, Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the UF College of Medicine, and the University of Florida Health Cancer Center Radiation Oncology team will continue development of a radiation toxicity biomarker through a $2 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract. The…
Dr. Dietmar Siemann presented cutting-edge research taking place at UF and connected with scientists, physicians and students at the the first University of Florida Health Cancer Center annual conference for middle and high school science teachers this summer. Dr. Siemann, John P. Cofrin Professorship in Radiation Therapy, is the Associate Chair for…
The Department of Radiation Oncology has announced that Clinical Professor Jonathan Li, PhD (shown left), and Research Assistant Professor Walter O’Dell, PhD (right), have been recognized as Exemplary Teachers for 2018. Faculty are selected based on the excellence of their teaching of medical students, residents and fellows, graduate students, and…
Intrabeam therapy can shorten the duration of a woman’s radiation treatment to a single day.
Joanna Hammond, R.N., dedicated much of her life to nursing and serving others, but earlier this year, that changed.
Drs. Mark Artz, Adam Holtzman, Natalie Lockney, and Ray Mailhot were appointed Assistant Professors.
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