CHPS News
Health Sciences
UCF Grad Works at Johns Hopkins Hospital to Prevent and Control COVID-19 Spread
After studying health sciences at UCF, Frankie Catalfumo ’13 is using his expertise as an infection control epidemiologist to keep patients and hospital staff safe at the...
Dean's Office
Health Tips from Faculty During COVID-19
The stressors brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic make self-care more important than ever. Here are some tips shared by our health experts at the...
Clinical Spotlight
Jane Hostetler: UCF Speech Pathologist Helps Parkinson’s Patients Speak Out
Jane Hostetler, an associate instructor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been working with Parkinson’s patients at UCF’s Communication Disorders Clinic to...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
New Program Helps Students to Work With Children With Special Needs
The graduate certificate program will start this summer as a partnership between the College of Community Innovation and Education and the College of Health Professions...
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Simulation Helps Graduate Students Continue to Earn Clinical Hours
For Kennedy Raffa ’19 and Lauren Lamontagne — along with the 93 other speech-language pathology graduate clinicians — the time away from campus means they...
Clinical Spotlight
UCF Cleft Palate Expert Is Changing The Way The Condition Is Diagnosed And Treated
Craniofacial defects such as cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects. Lakshmi Kollara Sunil, assistant professor in the School of...
Health Sciences
Health Sciences Student Karina Castro Named to 2020 Knight of Distinction Program
Karina Castro, a first-year health sciences student, has taken a step forward in her academic career at UCF and has been selected as a Knight...
Physical Therapy
Harnessing Power: UCF’s Aphasia House and Knights on the Go Café is helping people like Larry Lentz Jr. improve their mobility, language and social skills.
Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes, they wear harnesses. When Larry Lentz Jr. wears his harness in the Knights on the Go Café, he glides from...
Social Work
UCF School of Social Work Awards Seed Grants for Interdisciplinary Research
The UCF School of Social Work is committed to providing essential and unique research to health and mental health fields through the school’s Center for...
Social Work
Social Work Student Launches Food Pantry at Community School
Celine Rodriguez, a social work graduate student, didn’t really understand food insecurity issues until she witnessed it firsthand at the Academic Center for Excellence in...
