COllege of medicine Town hall

The UF College of Medicine community is hosting a series of town hall sessions via Zoom to discuss the college’s strategic priorities.

Join us for the next GAINESVILLE CAMPUS town hall

March 13, 7:15-7:45 A.m.

College of Medicine Town Hall

Join us for the March Town Hall.

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Upcoming GAINESVILLE CAMPUS town halls

THURsday

April 9, 12:15-12:45 p.m.

Join us for the April Town Hall.

Upcoming gainesville and jacksonville town halls

Wednesday

June 24, 7:15-7:45 a.m.

Join us for a June Town Hall with Drs. Hunt, Edwards and Motew.

Crowdsourced Q&A from our December 2025 Town Hall

Q: Word that should go into the dictionary in 2026

  • Riz
  • Deflecterception (football): an interception caused by a deflected pass
  • Six sevening
  • Sumrall – a return to grace
  • No Cap – no lie

Crowdsourced Q&A from our NOVEMBER 2025 Town Hall

Q: How do you and/or your family practice gratitude? 

  • For our kids’ birthdays, friends would come over and make a meal for Ronald McDonald House and we would go and serve the meal together
  • Gratitude in every minimum detail
  • Remember to notice the positive traits or events each day
  • When you feel grateful, say it aloud to someone next to you! It solidifies
  • Going around the table to talk about what we’re grateful for

 

Crowdsourced Q&A from our OCTOBER 2025 Town Hall

Q: What is the best and worst Halloween candy?

Best

  • Sour Patch Kids
  • Pretty much everything but candy corn
  • Candy corn 
  • Chocolate
  • Butterfinger
  • Reese’s pumpkins
  • Milk Duds
  • Twix
  • Is there bad Halloween candy?
  • Almond Joy
  • Squashies 
  • KitKat
  • M&Ms
  • Snickers
  • Tootsie Rolls
  • White Reese’s ghosts
  • Twizzlers
  • Reese’s cups

Worst

  • Candy corn
  • Black licorice
  • Hard candy
  • Hard bubble gum
  • Orange circus peanuts
  • Gummies
  • Werther’s
  • Raisinets
  • Nerds
  • Whoppers
  • Lollipops
  • Bit O Honey
  • Worst is getting an apple for trick or treating
  • Sour Patch Kids
  • Anything sour
  • Skittles
  • Swedish Fish 
  • Tootsie Rolls
  • As a kid, there was always a house that would hand out apples or give us all a nickel…..don’t be that house
  • Mike and Ikes

Crowdsourced Q&A from our second September 2025 Town Hall

Q: What do you love most about working at UF?

  • Opportunities to collaborate across disciplines
  • The amazing colleagues make it a wonderful place
  • The people/benefits 😀
  • The people we get to work with and the patients we all help take care of
  • Collaboration between departments
  • Getting to work with so many wonderful people
  • Helping patients
  • The people 🙂
  • The opportunity to see how we impact community
  • Our community
  • Great learners
  • Working with the best team 🙂
  • Following in my father’s footsteps as a UF employee
  • The amazing people, of course!
  • The small town feel, how often I find an outside-of-work connection with people. Makes it feel like more of a community
  • The incredibly passionate people we get to work with
  • We have great leaders 😄
  • I love being inspired by my colleagues
  • Community
  • The amazing people

Crowdsourced Q&A from our first September 2025 Town Hall

Q: Favorite fall activity in North Central Florida?

  • Football of course!!
  • Southern Hills Farm Fall Festival
  • Walk the Ravines
  • Newberry Corn Maze
  • Anything with the word “sports” 🙂
  • Running!
  • It used to be Gator football
  • Lubee Bat Festival
  • Craft festivals
  • Going to fall festivals
  • Thanksgiving dinner!!!!
  • Enjoying cooler weather!
  • Amazing Grace Farm with the family
  • Kanapaha Botanical Garden
  • Brown’s Adventure Farm in Oxford, Fl. – have to hit a night they do fireworks.
  • Being able to tolerate being outside
  • Fishing with my three boys

Crowdsourced Q&A from our august 2025 Town Hall

Q: Favorite place to watch the Gators play?

  • Home 
  • In the Swamp!
  • Neighbor’s house
  • On my couch
  • Tailgate then home
  • In the A/C!
  • My comfy chair
  • South endzone

Crowdsourced Q&A from our July 2025 Town Hall

Q: What is your most-used emoji? 

  • Heart
  • 😃
  • The sunshine! ☀️ to brighten every text
  • 🌞
  • Exclamation points
  • Wink smile
  • 🙂
  • 👍
  • 😂
  • 🤣
  • 💸

Crowdsourced Q&A from our June 2025 Town Hall

Q: What is your favorite summertime song? 

  • “Let it Snow” – too hot!
  • “Cruel Summer” by Taylor Swift
  • “Kokomo” by The Beach Boys
  • “Stir It Up” by Bob Marley & the Wailers
  • “Cruisin’”
  • “Song of the South” by Alabama
  • Jimmy Buffet songs
  • “Santeria”
  • “Fruitcakes”
  • “Down at the Lah De Dah” by Jimmy Buffett
  • “Margaritaville”
  • “Island in the Sun” by Weezer

Crowdsourced Q&A from our May 2025 Town Hall

Q: Is there a spring graduate you would like to congratulate? 

  • Dr. Hunt would like to congratulate all our graduating College of Medicine students!
  • Congrats, Mendy Dunn on your PhD
  • Congratulations to all our graduating residents and fellows!!!
  • Congratulations to all of the UF master of health administration students, they will play such a huge part in the work that we do
  • Congratulations to the residents and fellows!
  • Congratulations to my niece, Mallorie Watson with her bachelor’s in nutritional life sciences as she heads to UK for DMD school. She’ll be back!!
  • Congrats to Jorge Alvarado Barrantes, MD,  for earning his PhD in Biomedical Sciences, overcoming several obstacles while working on a challenging project with Dr. Renne.  Looking forward to your future as a physician scientist.
  • Congratulations Drs. Brisson and Cassidy, RadOnc Chief Residents!!

Crowdsourced Q&A from our april 2025 Town Hall

Q: What’s on your summer reading or binge-watching list? 

  • The Last of Us
  • The Pitt
  • Abbott Elementary
  • Outlander
  • The Wicked novel
  • People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • The Residence on Netflix
  • Bridgerton
  • You
  • Fringe to binge watch
  • Lauren Groff – author
  • Netflix series of King David
  • Fire Country
  • The Art of Self Love by Sabrina Windale
  • The West Wing
  • Reading The Evening Shades by Lee Martin
  • The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • Elphie and Bring Up the Bodies
  • Heartbreaker by Mike Campbell
  • Black Mirror on Netflix
  • Anything by Kristen Hannah
  • Virgin River on Netflix
  • Watching Prison Break
  • Fourth Wing series
  • Quicksilver by Callie Hart
  • Hacks on Max

Crowdsourced Q&A from our March 2025 Town Hall

Q: What’s your favorite spring break destination?

  • Skiing
  • Any place with water
  • Manasota Key
  • Crescent Beach

Crowdsourced Q&A from our February 2025 town hall

Q: What is your favorite Valentine’s candy or gift to receive?

  • Sleep
  • Godiva
  • Reese’s
  • Anything homemade or handpicked
  • Crumbl Cookies
  • Twizzlers
  • Box of chocolates
  • Coffee
  • Sushi
  • Picture of my children
  • Roses
  • A plant or tree for the yard
  • For someone else to do the laundry
  • Personalized cards

crowdsourced Q&A from our december 2024 town hall

Q: Where are the best holiday lights in town?

  • Town of Tioga
  • Cherry Tree
  • Frat/Sorority Row
  • Thomas Center in Duckpond
  • Celebration Pointe
  • Raintree

crowdsourced Q&A from our NOVEMBER 2024 town hall

Q: What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish?

  • Stuffing
  • Cornbread
  • Pecan pie
  • Loaded mashed potatoes
  • Squash casserole
  • Carrot soufflé
  • Sweet potato casserole
  • Corn pudding
  • Green bean casserole
  • Mashed potatoes and gravy from scratch
  • Sweet potato casserole with brown sugar and walnuts, not marshmallows
  • Cornbread stuffing (and all the carbs!)
  • Macaroni and cheese
  • Alton Brown’s cranberry sauce (with orange juice)
  • Frijoles negros
  • Libby’s pumpkin pie recipe on the back of the label

CrowdsourceD Q&A from our October 2024 Town hall

Q: What was your best Halloween costume?

  • Black Swan
  • Carmen Sandiego
  • Chef
  • “Weird Al” Yankovic
  • Freddie
  • Werewolf (and my wife was the bride of Frankenstein)
  • My son and husband were hunters and my daughter and I were deer
  • Gene Simmons from KISS
  • My kids were a washer, dryer, and basket of laundry
  • Raggedy Ann and Andy
  • A group of us dressed in green and went as Gang Green
  • “BOO-JEE” with a giant Stanley cup
  • My husband and I went as orange and red Gatorade bottles: solid color shirt, Gatorade logo, and plastic wrap
  • A skeleton

CrowdsourceD Q&A from our AUGUST 2024 Town hall

Q: What are the best hidden gems in Gainesville?

Nature

  • Sweetwater Preserve
  • Lake Wauburg
  • Sweetwater Wetland park
  • La Chua Trail
  • Cedar Key
  • Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
  • Bolen Bluff
  • Devil’s Millhopper
  • San Felasco Park
  • Dudley Farm Historic State Park
  • Paynes Prarie
  • Cellon Oak Park
  • Rainbow River
  • Rum 138
  • Cedar Lakes Woods and Gardens
  • Mount Dora
  • Carson Springs Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Devil’s Den Springs
  • Silver Springs State Park

Food

  • Satchel’s Pizza
  • The Top
  • Mahzu Sushi
  • Kin Cocktail Bar
  • Superette Wine + Provisions
  • Pascal’s Coffeehouse
  • Pearl BBQ
  • Blue Highway Pizza
  • 43rd Street Deli
  • Tinker Latin Food
  • Chopstix Cafe
  • Hogan’s Great Sandwiches
  • Scuola Pizza

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State of the College Address

2025

Tune in virtually or rsvp for limited seats (breakfast provided!)

State of the College coming Sept. 24

Hear from Interim Dean Jennifer Hunt, M.D., M.Ed., as we gather to highlight the College of Medicine's achievements over the past year and chart the path forward. A virtual viewing option will be made available. In-person attendance is open to all and available via RSVP on a first-come, first-served basis. The event will take place Sept. 24, 7 – 8 AM in HMEB 135, with breakfast provided at the in-person event.

2024

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State of the College

The college community gathered Sept. 24 to highlight the College of Medicine's achievements over the past year and chart the path forward.