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After spending the last year virtually connecting with government and community leaders, one University of Florida College of Medicine resident will soon travel 5,000 miles to West Africa to help bring much-needed neurosurgery resources to a public hospital. Megan Still, M.D., a fourth-year neurosurgery resident in the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery, has been awarded a Fulbright Program fellowship to conduct a needs assessment at a hospital in Sierra Leone.

Seven University of Florida Health Shands Hospital medical specialties are ranked among the best in the nation, once again marking UF Health as an elite health system, according to the 2024-25 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” report.

University of Florida Health Shands Hospital, a leader in health care in Florida, was again recognized by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals survey for excellence in adult patient care, with five medical specialties ranked. Combined with the four pediatric specialties ranked in the nation’s top 50 by U.S.

University of Florida Health neurosurgeon Daniel J. Hoh, M.D., has been elected 2024-25 president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), one of the largest international neurosurgical societies, with over 10,000 members worldwide.