A UF team led by Associate Professor Julie Bradley, MD has been awarded $147,573 by Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, to study inequities in the delivery of care and outcomes for patients of color with metastatic breast cancer. Entitled “Equitable Care of Metastatic Breast…
Vern Grandsen, a nurse, knew excellent care when he saw it. He found the right approach with Radiation Oncology Assistant Professor Kate Hitchcock, MD, PhD, whose quick response and “when can you be here?” question changed his mindset for the duration of his Gainesville stay and helped…
UF Radiation Oncology Department Chair Paul Okunieff, MD and Associate Professor Julie A. Bradley, MD will participate in the 27th Annual Multidisciplinary Symposium on Breast Disease, February 10-13, 2022, at the Amelia Island Ritz Carlton. The conference, a program for physicians involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of breast…
Conquer Cancer has profiled Assistant Professor Raymond Mailhot, MD, MPH, who shares how he’s working to accelerate equity in cancer care in Conquer Cancer’s Q&A “Driving Equity & Inclusion in Cancer Care.” Dr. Mailhot, who leads the hematology malignancy radiotherapy program, dedicates his research to improving radiation treatment and cares…
UF Radiation Oncology Assistant Professor Oluwadamilola T. Oladeru (Lola), MD, MA, MBA has been awarded a $240,000, two-year grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation’s prestigious Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Program (BMSF DCTCDP). The goal of the program is to build partnerships between clinical investigators and communities in…
Assistant Professor Oluwadamilola T. Oladeru (Lola), MD, MA, MBA was recently interviewed by the Gainesville Sun for its October Breast Cancer Awareness series. The article explores how physicians and researchers across Florida are making a diagnosis of breast cancer less formidable and frequent, especially for underserved populations. “We want to…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, founded in 1985 to increase awareness and fund research for the most common type of cancer in women. According to the World Cancer Research Fund, this year, 281,550 American women and 2,650 American men will learn they have breast cancer. Another 49,290 women will…
Daniel Indelicato, MD, Professor, Mendenhall Endowed Chair, and Associate Vice Chair of the UF Department of Radiation Oncology, has been awarded a one-year, $160,000 NIH/NCI grant for the United States Pediatric Proton Therapy study. This is a prospective cohort study including pediatric cancer patients treated with proton therapy and…
Oluwadamilola Oladeru (Lola), MD, MA, MBA, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, and Director of the Breast Radiation Oncology service at Gainesville, has been awarded a grant by the NRG Oncology Early Career New Investigator and Health Disparities Committees for the Health Equity New Investigator Mentor Program for Underrepresented Minority…
Melanoma in the eye presents special challenges. Thanks to the work of UF radiation oncologists and ophthalmologists, high-resolution ultrasound and plaques implanted with radioactive seeds can be the difference between sight and blindness: Read more at UF Health.
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