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More than 100 UCF College of Medicine students, faculty and staff members did a giant Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS \u201cWAVE\u201d on the Tavistock Green Friday, led by Dr. Deborah German, founding dean of the 6-year-old medical school. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=URVuW1DFCTs&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

Before dousing herself with ice water, Dr. German challenged every medical school dean in America and every dean of every college at UCF to do the same to raise awareness and research dollars for of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease more commonly called Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

She talked of the devastating impact ALS has \u201con our loved ones and our patients\u201d and paid tribute to a former colleague, a rheumatologist who had cared for her mother, and \u201csuffered through this horrendous disease with dignity through the very end.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the dean dumped a large blue bucket of ice water on her head, four rows of medical students, graduate students, their teachers and staff \u2013 some in their white coats \u2013 followed. The wave drew screams, gasps and cheers.<\/p>\n

The College of Medicine\u2019s inaugural class of internal medicine residents had challenged Dr. German and the entire medical school on Thursday. The University of South Florida\u2019s medical school had done the same. So far the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge so far has raised about $42 million.<\/p>\n

The college-wide event was the idea of UCF medical student Xinwei Liu, president of the class of 2017. He said many students had received individual challenges from friends and family, but he wanted to organize a bigger event for the entire college that is training the next generation of physicians and scientists. \u201cIt shows we care. All of us came together and did this with our dean,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Stephen King, associate professor at the College of Medicine’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, researches neurodegenerative disease and participated in the challenge. As he stood dripping wet on the Tavistock Green, he said the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has shown people with ALS that they “are not alone. those who suffer from it or have a loved one with ALS or know someone with ALS understand the disease,” he said. “But now, the whole country has become aware.”<\/p>\n

Dr. King’s research focus is on how neurons function and how neurodegenerative disease affects individual cells. He said science will unlikely find one overall cure for ALS because the disease manifests in different ways and from different biological causes. But he said the research goal is to understand how the disease impacts individual cells and then “if we can fix the cells, we can fix the entire person.”<\/p>\n

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