UCF Health Team Provides Six Families with Thanksgiving Meals
November 20, 2015
Team members from UCF Health helped make the Thanksgiving holiday a little brighter for Central Florida families in need. The team assembled six meal baskets that include all the traditional meal staples, along with festive plates and napkins and a gift card to help purchase a turkey. With the help of Thanksgiving Basket Brigade of Central Florida, the baskets…
Physicians Educate Colleagues At Statewide Conferences
August 31, 2015
UCF Health faculty physicians trained their colleagues on identifying and treating concussions and using electronic health records to keep their senior patients healthier at recent statewide conferences in Orlando. Dr. Leonardo Oliveira, who specializes in sports medicine and internal medicine at UCF Health, presented continuing medical education training on concussions to about 100 physicians attending the…
Dr. Christopher Smith Offers Advice on Alternative Medicine
July 8, 2015
Alternative therapies like herbs, supplements, acupuncture and meditation can help a variety of health conditions. There is growing scientific evidence on the importance of traditional/alternative therapies and their role in modern medicine, UCF Health’s new integrated medicine specialist told a community gathering June 17. Dr. Christopher Smith, a board-certified family medicine specialist who completed a…
Rheumatologist Dr. Nausheen Naz Joins UCF Health
June 18, 2015
Nausheen Naz, M.D., has joined UCF Health, the College of Medicine physician practice, to treat patients with diseases of the joints, muscles, bones and connective tissues. Dr. Naz is board certified in rheumatology and internal medicine, and is an assistant professor at the College of Medicine. “I was drawn to the College of Medicine because…
New Family and Integrative Medicine Physician Joins Practice
May 19, 2015
Christopher Smith, M.D., has joined UCF Health, the College of Medicine physician practice, to provide primary care and integrative medicine services, including scientifically-based therapies like nutritional supplements to acupuncture. “Integrative medicine, which combines certain alternative therapies with conventional Western medicine, has been a growing interest among physicians and laypeople researching healthcare options for many years,”…
Dr. Bég Educates On Lupus
May 6, 2015
More than 140 people attended the Florida Lupus Foundation annual seminar April 18 and learned from a College of Medicine faculty physician the causes, symptoms and treatments of the disease. Lupus affects the autoimmune system and can cause fatigue, skin conditions, sensitivity to sunlight, joint pain and inflammation of organs that can lead to kidney…
