Health & Medicine

FSU College of Nursing offers research-based Ph.D.

Published: January 17, 2023 | 2:24 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

The Florida State University College of Nursing will introduce a new research-based doctoral degree in nursing beginning in the 2023 fall semester. The new degree program was approved during the Florida Board of Governors meeting in November. While the college already offers a practice-based doctoral degree in nursing, the focus on research will be a […]

Alma Littles appointed interim dean of FSU College of Medicine

Published: January 13, 2023 | 12:42 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Dr. Alma Littles was named interim dean of the Florida State University College of Medicine. (FSU Photography Services/Bill Lax)

Florida State University Provost Jim Clark has named Dr. Alma Littles interim dean of the College of Medicine. The appointment will begin Feb. 1. Littles, who has served as senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs at the medical school for nearly 20 years, succeeds Dr. John P. Fogarty. Fogarty is retiring after […]

FSU College of Nursing faculty collaborate with Panamanian institute to strengthen health research

Published: December 12, 2022 | 2:25 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Campus administrators and faculty members at the FSU-Panama campus, where Wong and Millender are visiting courtesy faculty members, have been instrumental in helping the researchers begin their endeavors in Panama.

Two faculty members from Florida State University’s College of Nursing have been named courtesy research associates of the Gorgas Commemorative Institute for Health Studies (ICGES) in Panama, the nation’s lead entity for facilitating and conducting health research. Frankie Wong, McKenzie Endowed Professor of Health Equity Research in the College of Nursing, and Eugenia Flores Millender, […]

FSU research links common sweetener with anxiety

Published: December 8, 2022 | 2:56 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine, University News

Pradeep Bhide, the Jim and Betty Ann Rodgers Eminent Scholar Chair of Developmental Neuroscience in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. (Colin Hackley/FSU College of Medicine)

Florida State University College of Medicine researchers have linked aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in nearly 5,000 diet foods and drinks, to anxiety-like behavior in mice. Along with producing anxiety in the mice who consumed aspartame, the effects extended up to two generations from the males exposed to the sweetener. The study is published in […]

Building a health care ecosystem: FSU leaders create FSU Health roadmap

Published: December 7, 2022 | 2:32 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Florida State University officials have been working to lay the groundwork for FSU Health, a health care ecosystem poised to transform health care delivery in North Florida. “FSU Health will reshape patient care, education and research throughout Florida,” said FSU President Richard McCullough. “The Florida Panhandle is booming and the possibilities — and needs — […]

FSU College of Nursing awarded over $1M to address growing nursing shortage in Florida via new practice partnership

Published: November 22, 2022 | 11:43 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

The LINE Fund supports the recruitment of faculty and clinical preceptors, bolstering the capacity of high-quality nursing education programs and increasing the number of nursing-education graduates who are prepared to enter the workforce. (FSU Photography Services)

The Florida State University College of Nursing has been awarded more than $1 million from a Florida Department of Education program that aims to combat the state’s growing nursing shortage through innovative academic industry collaboration. The funding came via two allotments from the DOE’s Linking Industry to Nursing Education, or LINE, Fund, the second of […]

Five questions: FSU exercise physiologist works to help individuals achieve optimal performance

Published: November 21, 2022 | 9:30 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Professor of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology Michael Ormsbee first became interested in how the body performs as a high school athlete, an interest that blossomed into a full-time career. As a professor and director of Florida State University’s Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine, or ISSM, he has worked with both individuals who are competing […]

FSU College of Nursing to launch Institute on Digital Health and Innovation, help solve ‘real-world needs’

Published: November 9, 2022 | 10:33 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Two recently hired faculty members in the College of Nursing are wasting no time making their mark at Florida State University, expanding the college’s footprint through the creation of a new institute focused on the intersection of digital innovation, big data and health care. Lisa Hightow-Weidman and Kathryn Muessig — esteemed digital health experts whom […]

FSU center awarded grant to improve rural community health and resilience related to opioid use

Published: October 20, 2022 | 3:40 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine, University News

Ellen Piekalkiewicz, Jane Dwyer Lee and Tanya Renn.

A $1.3 million grant will fund a Florida State University College of Social Work project that aims to combat the opioid epidemic across eight southeastern states. The two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will go to FSU’s Center for the Study and Promotion of Communities, Families and Children (CFC […]

FSU nursing researchers receive federal grant to study vaccine trial engagement in Latinx communities

Published: October 14, 2022 | 10:29 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

A team of researchers from the Florida State University College of Nursing has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) to examine predictors of vaccine-trial engagement among sexual and gender minority Latinx communities. The Innovation Award: Minority Health and Health Equity from […]

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