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Congratulations to Dr. Jamie Morano on her new leadership roles in national Veterans Administration HIV, Hepatitis Telehealth and Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers 

Dr. Jamie P. Morano has been promoted to serve as Region 3 / VISN 8 Project Lead, National HIV, Hepatitis Specialty Access Telehealth Resource (H-STAR) Center within the National VA HHRC Program, where she will work to establish regional centers of excellence for HIV, Hepatitis, and STI treatment and prevention.  She will also serve as National VA Project Lead of the HIV Telehealth Collaborative Care Program, Veterans Rural Health Resource Center (VRHRC), Office of Rural Health. In these capacities she mentors nine national VA healthcare systems to reconfigure their outpatient HIV services to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic with the latest evidence based clinical video telehealth services and support networks. Dr. Morano has developed and expanded infectious disease video telehealth services both within the James A Haley VA since 2015 and the Florida Department of Health – Hillsborough since 2020. She has led our outpatient HIV educational programs at the DOH. Dr. Morano's leadership in education, mentoring and telehealth are widely recognized throughout USF and the state of Florida.

Summer Amoeba Season Awareness Campaign kicks off

It is once again time for our Amoeba Season summer awareness program.  We recently received a generous donation and grant totaling $9,000 to support the USF Foundation Philip T. Gompf Memorial Fund #250155. These funds permit two ongoing projects:

• “Summer is Amoeba Season Campaign 2021” – This campaign has raised public awareness and prevention of water-borne infections since 2014, with a focus on primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in Florida and increasingly Northern states. It centers around a digital billboard campaign from May 1-Aug 31 yearly on I-4 in East Hillsborough near exit 14 East and Westbound, which is strategically located near a local water ski cable park. This campaign is made possible through the generous support of Branch Ranch Outdoor Advertising, Inc., donations by the Jordan Smelski Foundation for Amoeba Awareness, and a grant of the Raymond C. Rude Supporting Foundation.
• Philip T. Gompf Award for Excellence in Infectious Diseases – This annual Division award comes with a monetary gift of $1000 made possible by the grant. It is given to a graduating medical student who has exhibited outstanding scholarly achievement and humanism in the discipline of Infectious Diseases. Faculty should nominate worthy medical students for consideration as the award ceremony is coming up!

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