Health & Medicine News

The new program in Tallahassee will help address Florida’s need for primary care physicians.

UCF College of Medicine Associate Professor Laura Brattain is offering opportunities to learn how robotics, medical ultrasound and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to help physicians and patients.

The gift will provide hundreds of UCF second degree bachelor’s in nursing students with much-needed scholarships and wrap-around services to support their success.

With UCF Space Week taking place Nov. 3-7, America’s Space University is expanding its research, clinical, and education efforts to keeping the galaxy’s travelers healthy and bringing those medical technologies back to patients on Earth.

As the recipient of the 2025 Exemplary Research Practices Award, Sejal Barden continues to advance innovative work in the field of counseling.

For just over a year, a UCF Health Student Health Services robot named “Pillbert,” has helped pharmacists quickly dispense common medications, enabling staff to better support doctors and further enrich interactions with patients.

Materials science researchers Needa Brown and Aleksandra Petelski-Kulik will study the breast cancer microenvironment with support from the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation.

The Dr. Gideon J. Lewis’ Surgical Internship Program offers select pre-med students an opportunity to experience patient care, research and surgical procedures firsthand.

An interdisciplinary team of UCF researchers is creating a single low-cost test to detect HIV and Hepatitis B and C simultaneously, which may save lives in resource-limited settings.