Leslie Galloway

His family traveled to the Cayman Islands before they came to Florida for the operation but it was unsuccessful.

Few patients were as sick as teenager Andy Herrera when he arrived at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital in early 2018 for a heart transplant. He was on a type of heart-bypass that took over the functions of his heart for more than a year, longer than doctors had…

Karen Wright worked her way through the small gathering outside her 4-month-old daughter’s room in pediatric intensive care. It seemed to her as if everyone at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital had come to witness this historic moment. https://ufhealth.org/news/2019/uf-health-patient-first-receive-new-gene-therapy-neuromuscular-disease-fda-approval…

Dawn Strickland describes her four children as any doting parent would. Jonah, the oldest, is 16 and a wonderful helper. Joel, 14, is the sweetest boy. Nine-year-old Grace, the little athlete, is simply wonderful, and 2-year-old Hannah is a little ball of life. https://ufhealth.org/blog/living-great-hope…

UF Department of Pediatrics congratulates faculty on their outstanding achievements. David Burchfield, M.D.: Award for Excellence in Life Support to the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, program, designating UF&Shands as an Extracorporeal Life Support Center of Excellence (With David Kays, M.D.) Chaired a review panel for the Center…

With respect to the University of Florida slogan, “The Gator Nation is Everywhere,” Dr. Desmond Schatz is perhaps a quintessential example of the truth of that notion. With family and educational roots in South Africa, training on the west coast of North America, and educational and research achievements originating in…

For Dr. Mutasim Abu-Hasan, returning to the “land of the Gators” is the natural next step in his well-established career. “Florida has a special place in my heart,” Dr. Abu-Hasan said. “There is a lot of loyalty to the place and it has a lot of family feeling to it.