Category: Spotlight

Leaving something better than you found it

Tammy Kegley presenting on behalf of the UF Health Aortic Disease Center during the 2026 UF College of Medicine Celebration of Research.

For nearly three decades at UF Health, Tammy Kegley has quietly helped build, strengthen and enhance the programs she supports.

Managers Cohort builds balanced leaders

Headshot of Elizabeth Eddy

Read on to learn how the Managers Cohort strengthened Eddy’s skills, expanded her perspective on leadership and continues to influence her work to this day.

Cup o’ Joe: The march of the mushrooms

Cup O' Joe with Joe Glover logo

Tag along with Interim Provost Joe Glover, Ph.D., as he meets UF’s Mushroom Man, gets schooled on the mysteries of mushrooms and visits UF’s little-known Fungarium.

“My organizational skills make me a better orthodontist”

Orthodontics resident Michelle Patel smiling while leaning over and working on a patient in a dental office.

Applying meticulous attention to detail, Patel creates confident, healthy smiles while advancing innovative research at the UF College of Dentistry.

Turning gameplay into healing

Hunter Ross in black and white with colorful illustrations of a game controller on the left, an I V stand on the right and a spotlight shining down on him.

Clinical Patient Gaming Technology Coordinator Hunter Ross manages the UF Health Streetlight Discord server, tracks patient gaming session logs and, above all, plays video games.

UF’s RoboPI lab makes waves with marine robots

Doctor Md Jahidul Islam and another researcher sitting off the side of a boat with a piece of machinery.

As director of the UF RoboPI lab, Md Jahidul Islam, Ph.D., seeks to ease the danger for humans working and exploring in the ocean.

“How you do anything is how you do everything”

Headshot of Doctor Christopher O. Hoyte crossing his arms and smiling in front of a background covered in a pattern of U F College of Medicine logos.

When his father required open heart surgery, 9-year-old Christopher O. Hoyte, M.D., felt deeply impacted, leading him to a career in emergency medicine.

UF engineers named 2026 NAI Senior Members

Two headshots, Doctor Curtis Taylor on the right and Doctor Hamed Dalir on the left.

UF College of Engineering’s Curtis Taylor, Ph.D., and Hamed Dalir, Ph.D., have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors.

Finding a lifelong passion in pediatric cardiology

Registered Nurse Connie Nixon on the right, laughing, with a child using a toy stethoscope on a smiling doctor to the left. All three are sitting on a patient table, with the child in the middle.

Connie Nixon’s relationships with patients span decades, and her impact has reached past operating rooms and clinics — into birthdays, graduations and weddings. 

From physics to farming

U F IFAS animal welfare scientist Emily Miller-Cushon crouching down and petting a calf

UF/IFAS Associate Professor Emily Miller-Cushon, Ph.D., took a path far from agriculture, into physics and math, but looped back in a way that melded her two passions: data and animal welfare.

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