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IN MEMORIAM
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SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HEALTH AFFAIRS
MELANIE FRIDL ROSS,
M.S.J., E.L.S., has been named
director of the Health Science
Center Offi ce of News &
Communications. After serving
as interim director for the past
year, Ross will continue to lead
the offi ce’s communication
efforts, working in cooperation
with Shands HealthCare and UF
University Relations.
JACKSONVILLE
Three College of Medicine-Jacksonville emergency
medicine residents won the fi rst annual Emergency
Medicine Residents’ Association Resident SimWars
Competition Oct. 6. Emergency medicine residents
Jack Forrest, M.D., Mark Laperouse, M.D., and
John Lissoway, M.D., battled fi ve other residency
teams from around the country in this interactive
simulation competition. The teams challenged each
other on simulated patient care, as an expert panel
rated their teamwork, communication, leadership,
medical care and management of the patient.
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Cancer Center names new director
Paul Okunieff, M.D., has been named director of the UF Shands Cancer
Center and chair of the College of Medicine department of radiation
oncology, effective Dec. 1. A graduate of Harvard Medical School,
Okunieff is currently the Philip Rubin professor in radiation oncology
and chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, where he leads a successful
radiation oncology clinical practice and research program. He also is
director of the university’s Robert A. Flavin Radiosurgery Center. Prior to
his appointment at Rochester in 1998, Okunieff served as branch chief of
radiation oncology at the National Cancer Institute, overseeing clinicaltranslational
research for the intramural NCI program. Okunieff succeeds
Joseph V. Simone, M.D., an internationally recognized leader in cancer
care, research and education who headed the Cancer Center and helped
to advance an alliance with UF, Shands HealthCare and the Moffi tt Cancer
Center that was forged in 2008, and Robert J. Amdur, M.D., a professor
and interim chair of the department of radiation oncology since 2006.
“Dr. Okunieff is a perfect match for the University of Florida and Shands
HealthCare,” said David S. Guzick, M.D., Ph.D., senior vice president for health affairs at UF’s Health
Science Center and president of the UF&Shands Health System. “At a time when we are opening a new
Cancer Hospital, developing our already world-renowned Proton Beam Therapy Institute in Jacksonville
with a plan to add a radiosurgery center at that site, enhancing our research program with a focus on
translational and clinical research, and establishing a National Cancer Center consortium arrangement
with Moffi t Cancer Center, Paul’s extensive background in all of these areas and his extraordinary record
of achievement are just what we need in Florida.”
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