Games Changers

Nima Sharifi, MD, has been named scientific director of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Desai Sethi Urology Institute, a role in which he will collaborate with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to drive translational science focused on prostate and other genitourinary cancers. Currently the director of research on genitourinary cancers and endowed chair for prostate...

Miami based VITAS Healthcare has appointed Alexander Fernandez to its leadership team as executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO). As CFO for the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care, Fernandez oversees the company’s finance, accounting and investor relations functions. As EVP, he helps drive the executive team’s growth, optimizing financial performance and...

Entitled Managing Through Uncertainty, the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School Center for Health Management & Policy presented its 12th annual The Business of Health Care event on February 24. The conference was held online and live at Donna E. Shalala Student Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables Campus. Florida Blue was again a presenting sponsor and major...

UM’s Miami Herbert Business School Center for Health Management & Policy presented its latest iteration of The Business of Health Care event on February 24. Entitled Managing Through Uncertainty, this year’s program was centered around three Keynote Panels, titled A View from the Field, A Potential Roadmap and Innovation & the Role of Technology. Steven G. Ullmann, Professor and...

Delray Medical Center is the first hospital in Florida to treat an Alzheimer’s disease patient using non-invasive focused ultrasound technology as part of a groundbreaking study being conducted in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention. In the FDA-approved clinical trial, focused ultrasound technology is used to disrupt the...

ACHE of South Florida will hold their Annual Board Installation Dinner on Tues., February 28 at the Signature Grand in Davie, FL. Featuring Keynote Speakers Shane Strum, President & CEO, Broward Health and K. Scott Wester, FACHE, President & CEO, Memorial Healthcare System, the program is sure to attract a large audience of healthcare executives and leaders of hospitals, healthcare...