Residency News and Activities

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A farewell to the 2025-2026 Chiefs and

Welcome our 2026-2027 Chief Residents!

UF COM Graduate Receives PM&R Award

At the end of four years of hard work, the UF College of Medicine Class of 2026 celebrated their achievements with an awards ceremony at the…

Drr. McCarty presents the excellence in PM&R award to mentee Jonah Maggard

We are extremely excited to announce that Dr. Abe Amare and Dr. Eian Fariscal are our chief residents for the 2026-27 academic year! We…

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January 2026

Headshot of Dr. Kiehl

Special congrats to our PMR resident, Dr. Kiehl, for being accepted into a sports medicine fellowship at Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital in St. Petersburg Florida

October 2025

Two of our residents Dr. White (left) and Dr. Fariscal (right) present at the FSPMR conference. Congratulations to Dr. Rinaldi for accepting a Pain Medicine Fellowship

August 2025

Our PMR residents participating at the M1 College of Medicine career fair

July 2025

July was a busy month for the PMR residency department! Dr. Amare and Dr. Coffey attended the ABPMR conference along with faculty in our department. We had our 2025 PMR graduation for our 4 residents (Dr. Conic, Dr. Drozda, Dr. Pendem, and Dr. Thompson). We welcomed our incoming PGY2 residents at orientation as well.

May 2025

The gallery includes: Group/Individual photos of the World Master’s Event, Dr. Kiehl presenting at AMSSM, Dr. Amare presenting at AAPM, Anatomy lab group photo, Dr. Estores and Dr. Kiehl, A couple of residents enjoying World Master’s Event, Dr. Zaremski at AMSSM, UF PMR table at AAP career fair, Dr. Ackerman-Fellow of AOCPMR, Dr. Kiehl accepting an award, Dr. Verble and Dr. Fariscal at World Master’s Event, Dr. White at World Master’s Event

March 2025

The residency program is very excited to announce our 2025 PM&R applicants who matched with us!

Dr. Mary DesRosiers, MD, of Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Her interests include audiobooks, nature documentaries, musical theatre, and exercise.

Ravi Shah, DO, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. His interests include hiking-scaled the 2,800 steep, icy steps of Manitou Incline!, different cuisines, astronomy, collecting shoes and watches

Lauren Taylor, DO, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. Her interests include rowing-2 year rower at Alabama, baking, mystery novels, running and outdoors

Sarah Sabol, MD Georgetown University School of Medicine. Her interests include athletics- all world athlete, yoga and meditation.

December 2024

September 2024

Residents and staff

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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Videos

Please check out our videos below for a behind the scenes look at our program!

University of Florida Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency Program