Health & Medicine News

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.

An incredible 121 students were welcomed to the College of Medicine with research in areas that include cancer, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and asthma.

With her second doctoral degree in nursing from UCF, Eunice Oladepe Ojo ’21DNP will address the shortage of nursing faculty and the leading cause of injury-related deaths among older adults in the U.S.

From determining when hospice is necessary to promoting conversations about end-of-life care, Latarsha Chisholm is helping nursing homes give dementia patients a more peaceful final chapter.

A unique partnership between UCF’s College of Medicine and College of Engineering and Computer Science is allowing students to better prepare for a multidisciplinary medical field.

As first responders continue aiding communities devastated by recent Texas floods, UCF RESTORES’ Deborah Beidel shares insight into the psychological burden they face and ways to support their healing.

Endowed professor Ladda Thiamwong is among 47 experts honored for their outstanding contributions and selected as 2025 fellows of the Gerontological Society of America.

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.

The Simulation, Technology, Innovation and Modeling is the first and only program in Florida accredited by the Association of SP Educators — and is now among an elite group worldwide with three accolades from leading organizations in the field.