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Scott Hunter

Exploring data‑driven pathways to predict sepsis

Robert Maile, Ph.D., has long been interested in the early diagnosis of sepsis in patients with severe burns, which cause immune system suppression, allowing infection to take hold more easily and to grow more quickly in severity.

Getting to know our SCIRC residents

September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and the University of Florida’s Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center is hard at work translating discoveries into clinical solutions to address sepsis. “Early identification and early intervention can make a tremendous difference in patient outcomes,” said center director Philip Efron, M.D., a professor in…