I’m gonna be a NEUROSURGEON!!! In your memory mummy we continue the race!

We are so excited to welcome our incoming class! Jean-Luc Maigrot Andrew Jones Sean H. Kwak Cleveland Clinic Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Cleveland Clinic CTS Residency James Yun Patrick R. Vargo Siva Raja #MatchDay2025

STS, alongside the house of medicine, thanks Senator Jacky Rosen, Senator John Boozman, Brian Babin & Chrissy Houlahan for reintroducing the REDI Act. If passed, this bill would allow borrowers to defer interest on their student loans during their medical residency. #STSAdvocacy

Elite 8 dub = FINAL 4 baby!!! #GoGators

GOIN’ TO THE ‘SHIP

There is absolutely no reason that physicians should not be able to own hospitals. Period.

What a week! From passing Step 1, to being inducted into Florida’s oldest leadership honorary Florida Blue Key, then giving 2 oral presentations at AAMC SGEA, and ending in receiving my white coat and starting clinical rotations UF Medicine! Looking forward to the future!

Pulse Oximetry and Arterial Blood Gas Oxygen Saturation... : Critical Care Medicine journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/abs… Follow-up to our previous studies: we show that the SpO2-SaO2 discrepancy is associated with mortality in ECPR patients, irrespective of race/ethnicity. Sung-Min Cho

See you soon, Jacksonville! 🐊 The City of Jacksonville just approved over 20 acres of land and $50 million for UF’s new campus, set to open in 2026. brnw.ch/21wTGq8

New paper from our team published in press The Annals of Thoracic Surgery on Cardiac Transplant after HYBRID+VAD in patients with HLHS annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-… UF Medicine UF Congenital Heart Center UF Surgery Mark Bleiweis Jeff Jacobs Ahmet Bilgili Giles Peek Yuriy Stukov Matthew Purlee

The best liver and lung transplant option in the U.S. just got better. SRTR data shows FLORIDA Health leads the nation for overall outcomes, with faster transplants and higher survival rates. Learn more: ufhealth.org/news/2025/uf-h…

June was another productive month in Department of Surgery Research; congratulations to all members of the department who were published! 🐊📙📘🐊 See the full list of publications at the link 👇 surgery.med.ufl.edu/2025/07/29/jun…

After 41 years teaching anatomy at FLORIDA Med, beloved professor Kyle Rarey, Ph.D., is hanging up his white coat to begin new adventures in retirement. Read about his educational legacy and what's coming next at news.drgator.ufl.edu/2025/07/29/kyl…

The UF Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to appoint Dr. Donald W. Landry as interim president of the University of Florida. news.ufl.edu/2025/08/donald…

On the #JHLT podcast, first author Ahmet Bilgili and senior author Eric I Jeng — both of the University of Florida — discuss the optimal pre-#HeartTx duration with the #HeartMate3 #LVAD. Listen wherever you get podcasts! #JHLTThePodcast #MCS #MechanicalCirculatorySupport

Very few med students have the drive, intelligence, and dedication that Ahmet Bilgili has. Truly a superstar. Check out his podcast!

Introducing the 2025 recipient of the Fred Weber Scholarship for Medical Students: Andrew Kalra from Thomas Jefferson University! Please join us in congratulating Andrew Andrew Kalra

Congratulations to UF Medical Student Vladimir Hernandez, who received the Jobst Award for the highest-scored vascular abstract at the Frederick A. Coller Surgical Society Annual Meeting!- “Clinical Impact of a Dedicated Trauma Hybrid Operating Room on Extremity Vascular Trauma.”

#Match2026 is quickly approaching. See our recently published work identifying predictors with a successful general surgery match in a USMLE Step 1 pass/fail era. UF Surgery UF Medicine UT Southwestern Medical Center AmJSurgery americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-…