Moulik wins award for teaching excellence

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Congratulations to Sabyasachi Moulik, Ph.D. The FIU Faculty Senate has selected Moulik to receive the 2020 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Moulik is an associate professor in the Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. He is primarily involved in teaching physiology and pathophysiology in the first three years […]

HWCOM In The News–June 2020

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June 30, 2020Signs Point To Spread Of Coronavirus Coming From Family Gatherings, Friendly Get-TogethersCBS4 MiamiMayor of Miami suggests he’s willing to shut the city back down if he’s unable to contain the coronavirus surge with a mask mandate and new penaltiesBusiness InsiderOn Climate, COVID, and RacePsychiatric Times June 29, 2020Not wearing a mask can cost […]

HWCOM In The News–May 2020

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May 31, 2020Baptist Health Physicians Successfully Treat First Three COVID-19 Critically Ill Patients with RESTEM’s Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem CellsSouth Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report May 29, 2020Miami-Dade adopts wastewater epidemiology to help fight coronavirusFresh News Now May 28, 2020Miami-Dade adopts wastewater epidemiology to help fight coronavirusWPLGFor cruise crew members stuck at sea, mental […]

2020 Alpha Omega Alpha Induction

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Congratulations to the 2020 HWCOM Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Honor Medical Society inductees. This year, 19 students were inducted into the prestigious national honor society–five juniors and 14 seniors. Dr. Larry Spiegelman was honored with the AΩA Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award. AΩA recognizes scholarship and other values including honesty, ethics, dedication to serving others, and leadership. […]

2020 HWCOM Pilot Project Grants

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Congratulations to the following faculty who were awarded a 2020 HWCOM Pilot Project Grant. This program is made possible by the generosity of Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Faculty Research Pilot Projects Endowment.  A rigorous peer‐review process was performed on 14 outstanding applications and the following (4) projects were awarded: Asmi Chakraborty, PhD, Post Doc, Translational Medicine“Targeting […]

HWCOM In The News–April 2020

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April 30, 2020Study discovers how primordial bacteria adapted to arsenic, could help researchers understand human disease caused by arsenic exposureFIU NewsStudy Discovers How Primordial Bacteria Adapted To ArsenicArchaeology News Network April 29, 2020FIU doctor is working to address the impact of COVID-19 on African AmericansFIU NewsBaptist Health Physicians Successfully Treat First Three COVID-19 Critically Ill […]

HWCOM 2020 Awards Winners

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Congratulations to all the winners of the HWCOM 2020 Awards… Student Awards Robert Kemper Award for Professionalism in MedicineElan Baskir  Greisy Martinez-Harvell Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award – M4Raed Ismail Narvel ACOG XII Medical Student AwardsAllison Roach (Scholarship)Chitra Gutluru (Service) Dan Castellanos PhD Professionalism Award – M4Jeffrey Wei Dan Castellanos PhD Professionalism Award – M2Irfan Khan  […]

Dr. Daniel Castellanos honored with national psychiatry award

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Dr. Daniel Castellanos has been selected by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as the recipient of its 2020 Simon Bolivar Award. The award honors a prominent advocate for Hispanics whose work “sensitizes APA membership to the mental health problems and goals of the Hispanic population.” The APA is the world’s largest psychiatric organization with more […]

HWCOM announces interim appointments

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Adrian Jones has been named Interim Executive Associate Dean for Student Affairs. Jones has served as HWCOM Associate Dean for Student Affairs, and he holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Humanities, Health, and Society. Prior to coming to FIU in 2014, he worked as the Assistant Dean for Admissions and Recruitment at Loyola University […]