I am pleased to share the first issue of our new biweekly newsletter, designed to provide our faculty, staff and students with the latest news and events from the UF College of Medicine. My goal is to keep you informed of the amazing achievements taking place every day at the college and to keep you involved as we work together to advance medical and health science education, research and patient care.

If you have feedback or suggestions, please let me know how we can best serve you in the area of college-wide communications.

Colleen G. Koch, M.D., M.S., M.B.A.

The UF College of Medicine is charting a course for the next five years with the launch of an exciting comprehensive strategic planning process. Designed to take a grassroots approach, the planning will rely on input and ideas from faculty, students, staff and trainees across the college.

A collaboration with NVIDIA researchers and UF has created GatorTron™, an artificial intelligence transformer natural language processing model intended to accelerate research and medical decision-making by extracting insights from massive volumes of clinical data with unprecedented speed and clarity.