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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Seven University of Florida Health Shands Hospital medical specialties are ranked among the best in the nation, once again marking UF Health as an elite health system, according to the 2024-25 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” report. The specialties recognized by U.S. News are neurology and neurosurgery (No.
Congratulations to Dr. Katharina Busl, on the publication of “A Propensity-Score Weighted Analysis of Short-Term Corticosteroid Therapy for Refractory Pain Following Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage,” which appears in preprint on Research Square. Abstract Background and Objectives Corticosteroids are prescribed for refractory headache in patients with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) despite limited supporting…
Congratulations to Drs. Karen McFarland, Steven Trent Dekosky, Melissa Armstrong, and David E Vaillancourt on the publication of “Plasma p‐tau217 concordance with amyloid PET among ethnically diverse older adults,” which appears in the July issue of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. Abstract INTRODUCTION Commercially available plasma…
LiveNOW’s Andy Mac spoke with Dr. Michael Okun, a neurologist from The Parkinson’s Foundation and UF Health’s Normal Fixel Center for Neurological Diseases, about the disease, how it’s diagnosed, treatment options and more amid reports that a Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in the last year. Amid…
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Okun, who is quoted in Time Magazine’s article “How Is Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosed?” The varied signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease Dr. Michael Okun, director of the Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University of Florida and medical adviser to the Parkinson’s Foundation, says that Parkinson’s…
Congratulations to Drs. Michael Okun and Gregory Pontone, on the publication of “Gaps and Controversies in Catatonia as a Movement Disorder,” which appears in the June issue of Movement Disorders. Abstract The term “catatonia” was introduced by German psychiatrist Karl Kahlbaum in 1874. Although historically tied to schizophrenia, catatonia exhibits…
Congratulations to Dr. Stephen Nadeau on the publication of “Opioids: Analgesia, Euphoria, Dysphoria, and Oblivion: Observations and a Hypothesis,” which appears in the July issue of Medical Research Archives. Abstract Introduction: In a previous paper, we inquired into the root causes of the two opioid crises our nation is facing, one…
Kenneth M. Heilman, M.D., a founder of the field of behavioral neurology who impacted generations of young neurologists worldwide and served the University of Florida College of Medicine for over 50 years, died July 15. He was 86. Behavioral neurology is a subspecialty focused on memory and cognitive disorders, and under…
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Okun on the publication of “Identification of Parkinson’s disease PACE subtypes and repurposing treatments through integrative analyses of multimodal data,” which appears in the July issue of NPJ Digital Medicine. Abstract Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a serious neurodegenerative disorder marked by significant clinical and progression heterogeneity.
Congratulations to Dr. Steven Trent DeKosky on the publication of “Develop and validate a computable phenotype for the identification of Alzheimer’s disease patients using electronic health record data,” which appears in the July 2024 issue of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. Abstract INTRODUCTION Alzheimer’s disease (AD)…
