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Caring for patients at UF Health, the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, and UF Health’s outpatient surgery centers, UF surgeons are part of a multidisciplinary health-care team who collaborate to offer individualized patient care and the latest therapies. They also train the surgical leaders of tomorrow.

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UF Surgery News
April 2025 publications
Congratulations to everybody who was published in April! Published faculty were Doctors Braithwaite, Beaver, Bleiweis, Cai, Cooper, Efron, Freeman…

Department well-represented at ACS annual meeting
Congratulations to everybody who presented at the American College of Surgeons Florida Chapter’s 2025 Annual Meeting & Edward M. Copeland, III, MD…

Resident wins first place at FCOT competition
Congratulations to research resident Christine Rodhouse, M.D., on being awarded first place in last week’s Florida Committee on Trauma (FCOT) paper…
