Medicine News

Marcy Verduin has spent a 25-year career helping others improve their mental health. Now she’s helping local deputies.

The RenewU program provides peer-reviewed interventions for improving physical and mental health in high-stress work environments.

Third-year College of Medicine student Larissa Dixon is the first UCF student to earn a Fogarty International Center Fellowship. Her research will better inform the global effort to combat antibiotic resistance.

The state-of-the-art facility will enable UCF to graduate an additional 150 newly licensed eligible nurses annually to address the critical shortage and will feature the latest immersive modeling and simulation technology.

After conquering her bachelor’s degree and master’s in biomedical sciences at UCF while working as a graduate scholar at Limbitless Solutions, Viviana Rivera ’23 ’24MS sets out to earn her medical degree and third ‘knighthood’ at UCF’s College of Medicine.

With studies across 10 countries, a record-setting cohort of UCF students is acquiring skills and tools that will make a profound impact on the world.

As an associate professor of medicine at UCF, Prins works to improve infection prevention in nursing homes through her own studies and mentoring medical students researching infection prevention.

As space travel advances, missions such as Fram2 provide space medicine experts like  Emmanuel Urquieta of the College of Medicine with opportunities to study its effects on human health.

The partnership will include a new aerospace medical skills lab developed at the UCF College of Medicine and collaborations to create new technology advancing healthcare in space.