Leadership
Michael Haller, MD
Elected to UF College of Medicine Faculty Council for a three-year term:
2023-2024 – President-Elect
2024-2025 – President
2025-2026 – Past-President
Shelley Collins, MD
Appointed senior associate dean for undergraduate medical education.
Rashmin Savani, MBChB
Selected for a three-year term as a member of the Program Evaluation Subcommittee of the Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP).
Michele Lossius, MD
Selected as an iCARE Adopter for the Pediatric ED and will provide support and resources to the unit-level iCARE champions and leadership teams.
Charlene Pringle APRN, CPNP-AC/PC, FCCM
Elected for a three-year term to the executive steering committee of the Pediatric section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Research
Matthew Gurka, PhD
Received an NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute R03 Award of $324,000 over two years, 9/10/2023 to 8/31/2025, for the project “Metabolic Syndrome Severity in All of Us: Relationship with Social Determinants of Health and with Long-Term Risk for Cardiovascular Disease”.
Dipankar Gupta, MD
Received a 2023 International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) Pediatric Transplant Journal Award for the manuscript “Directly observed therapy to promote medication adherence in adolescent heart transplant recipients” which was chosen by the Editorial Board of Pediatric Transplantation as one of the best publications in 2021-2022.Co-authors are Michael O. Killian, Stephanie Clifford, Mia Liza A. Lustria, and Gage L. Skivington
New Faculty
Please welcome to the team our newest faculty members since July 21, 2023.
Department:
MD-PEDS-HEMATOLOGY
Reema Kashif MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Director Of Sickle Cell Disease Clinic, and Pediatric Clerkship Core Faculty Member
