Independent cancer center opens in Oviedo
Mid-Florida Cancer Centers, an independent chain in Central Florida, recently opened its fourth facility in Oviedo, adding to its existing locations at DeLand, Orange City and Sanford.
The 17,500-square-foot center provides medical and radiation oncology and it’s perched behind Oviedo Medical Center, which is HCA’s newest hospital in Central Florida.
With the addition of a new hospital and Oviedo’s growing population, it made sense for the practice to expand into the area, said Dr. Neeraj Sharma, who’s been the director of Cancer Centers for more than a decade.
The practice, which includes 12 oncologists among its 170 employees, is not affiliated with or part of any hospital system, so it doesn’t charge any facility fees. fourth-year UCF medical student and director of the KNIGHTS Clinic,
during the Clinton Foundation’s Health Matters Activation Summit in Little Rock, Ark.
The award recognizes health professional training programs that provide innovative nutrition, physical activity and obesity counseling education to their students.
has licensed UCF expertise to develop software for a surgical robot used in minimally-invasive surgeries.
The company has an office in the UCF Business Incubator and it’s partnering with Zhihua Qu and Eytan Pollak, two professors at the College of Engineering & Computer Science.
AVRA provided $200,000 to partner with a new industry-sponsored innovation program at UCF.
There are plans for follow-up funding for the research and the rights to any intellectual property developed during the project.
The company will also pay UCF 1 percent in royalty fees for annual sales exceeding $20 million resulting from the intellectual property, according to a UCF news release.
consortium has received initial accreditation for two new emergency-medicine residency programs.
The program at Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville is approved for 24 residents and will be directed by Dr. Robyn Hoelle. The program at Ocala Regional Medical Center is approved for 21 resident and will be led by Dr. Bobby Desai.
Both programs are seeking applicants for the 2017-18 year.
Together, UCF and HCA have created 12 residency programs in Florida so far — and they aim to bring 600 residency slots to Florida by 2020, according to the consortium. The two organizations are also in the process of establishing a partnership hospital in Lake Nona.
is opening its newest Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation location in south Orlando at 2519 S. Orange Ave., adding to more than a dozen other locations in Central Florida. The facility is holding a grand opening ceremony April 26.