The University of Florida Pain Assessment and Management Initiative, or PAMI, has received an Alvin E. Smith Safety of Health Care Services Grant from the Florida Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association. This $999,000 award will continue the PAMI mission of advancing innovation and safety in pain education, patient care…
Imagine a world where emergency room patients and providers have access to a menu of pain management treatment options that include a blend of traditional and integrative techniques.
University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville researchers were awarded a Florida Blue Foundation 2019 Quality of Patient Care Grant for $275,000 to implement a three-year project addressing pain management in older adults in Northeast Florida. The project is named the Aging and Integrative Pain Assessment and Management Initiative, or AI-PAMI. The work is an expansion on the existing Pain Assessment and Management Initiative, established in 2014 by Phyllis Hendry, MD, a professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics.
Innovation, discovery and scholarship took center stage during Celebration of Resident and Fellow Education and Research Day, held June 10 at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville.
Two faculty physicians at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville have received a $20,000 grant from the Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation to study the impact socioeconomics have on quality of life for chronic pain patients. The study will involve 150 adult patients, particularly those at…
Phyllis Hendry, MD, and Sophia Sheikh, MD, received UF Innovate’s Invention of the Year Award for for their Pain Assessment and Management Initiative.
Faheem Guirgis, MD, is leading the new Center for Research Training and Jennifer Fishe, MD, the new Center for Data Solutions.
UF Health Jacksonville has made significant gains in recent years in a host of quality-related measures, including a reduction in infection rates. And in that time, much research has been conducted to prove the interventions are indeed working.
