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Cover Story
Nursing without Borders
Alumna combines nursing and epidemiology to build a distinctive career in public health
By Aimee Dingwell
Karen Levin ’95, MPH ’97 is not your typical nurse. She doesn’t work in a hospital and rarely treats patients, at least not anymore. She does study diseases and improve people’s health and lives. Levin is a nurse epidemiologist, a unique combination of clinical expertise and graduate training in public health research that has equipped her to work in the fields of bioterrorism emergency planning and natural disaster response. (more…)
In Brief
León family gift to support new College of Medicine geriatric center»
By Martin Haro ’05
The College of Medicine received the single largest gift in the university’s history in May from Miami’s León family to establish the Benjamín León, Jr. Family Center for Geriatric Research and Education. The $10 million gift also creates
the León Medical Centers Eminent Scholars Chair in Geriatrics. The gift is eligible for a [...]
Alumni Profile
VIP: Philip Goldfarb»
Profession: President and chief operating officer of Turnberry Associates Real Estate Development and Property Management.
FIU degree: Hospitality and Tourism Management
FIU affiliations: Alumni Association Lifetime Member, member of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Industry Advisory Board, speaker for the Distinguished Hospitality Leaders Lecture Series and sponsor of the Food Network South Beach Wine & [...]
