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…
Thanks to modern chemotherapy, gene-targeted therapy, and radiation therapy, there are now over 3.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. Each of these treatments, however, may carry an increased risk for major cardiac events and early cardiac death. Fortunately, UF single-institution data indicate that declines in heart function…
Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide, with approximately 630,000 new patients diagnosed each year. In order to accurately detect and monitor head and neck cancer, doctors employ a procedure called rhinolaryngoscopy, during which a patient’s airways and throat are…
UF Health has produced brief video-recorded answers to commonly asked questions featuring UF Health experts, including Folakemi Odedina, Ph.D., joint professor in radiation oncology, pharmacotherapy and translational research. Dr. Odedina’s research focuses on the predictors of health disparities and cost-effective, community-based behavioral interventions to improve the health among minority and…
The Department of Radiation Oncology was pleased to welcome three new first-year Residents on July 1, 2020: Physician Residents Matthew Culbert, MD, and Nicolette Drescher, MD, and Medical Physics Resident Luke Maloney, PhD. Matthew Culbert (shown center) joins the department from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, where he…
Beloved Radiation Oncology Professor William Mendenhall, MD, has been selected to receive the 2020 UF College of Medicine Faculty Council Lifetime Achievement Award and was honored on May 15 during a virtual award ceremony with Dean Tyndall. The award recognizes the…
Paul Okunieff, MD, Chair, has announced that Robert Amdur, MD, Radiation Oncology Professor and Rodney R. Million Professor of Radiation Oncology (shown right with Anamaria R. Yeung, MD), has retired as the department’s Residency Program Director. Anamaria R. Yeung, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, assumed the role of Residency Program Director…
The Department of Radiation Oncology has announced the 2019 Medical Student and Community Education and Medical Physics Education awards for both the Gainesville and UF Health Proton Therapy Institute (UFHPTI, Jacksonville) teams. The Medical Student and Community Education Award recognizes a clinician who provides outstanding educational opportunities and mentoring to…
The Department of Radiation Oncology has begun administering SpaceOAR hydrogel in patients undergoing prostate radiotherapy at the UF Health Medical Oncology – Davis Cancer Pavilion. SpaceOAR hydrogel is injected into place prior to the start of radiation treatment. Patients may be awake or asleep under general anesthesia for the procedure.
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