Kevin Sneed, Ph.D. Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) Awarded: 2026 Dr. Kevin Sneed is professor and founding Dean of the University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy, and Senior Associate Vice-President for USF Health. His research and clinical interests include advanced pharmacological treatment of patients with cardio-metabolic disorders, examining heal...READ MORE

Bill Baker AIMBE Fellow Awarded: 2026 Dr. Bill Baker is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Florida. He is being honored for his contributions to the field of natural products chemistry, particularly for studies of the chemical ecology of Antarc...READ MORE

Anthony McGuire Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association Fellow Awarded: 2026 Dr. McGuire has been in Nursing since 1978 starting as a CNA in a small hospital in Maine. He went on to become an RN in 1985, an Acute Care NP in 1998 at UCLA, and finished a PhD at UCLA in Nursing with a biobehavioral focus in 2011. Along the way he earned a BS in Business Administration at the Un...READ MORE

Catherine Nadeau American Association of Nurse Practitioners Fellow Awarded: 2026 Dr. Catherine Nadeau, DNP, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CNE, is an Assistant Professor and Family Nurse Practitioner Program Director at the University of South Florida College of Nursing. She is a clinician-scholar whose work focuses on advancing cardiovascular health for women across the lifespan, with an e...READ MORE

Andrea Efre American Association of Nurse Practitioners Fellow Awarded: 2026 Dr. Andrea Efre is an Associate Professor in the graduate programs for the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida. She holds a Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) from Case Western Reserve University, is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C), and is a recognized speaker, clini...READ MORE

John Ferron AERA Fellow Awarded: 2026 John Ferron is a scholar of research methodology, who focuses on methods for studying the effectiveness of interventions for individuals who have special needs and may struggle to respond to typical educational practices. He has contributed to the conduct of single-case experimental research through...READ MORE

Fred Mannering National Academy of Engineering Member Awarded: 2026 Dr. Fred Mannering is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida. He was previously the Charles Pankow Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, Head of Civi...READ MORE

Greg Sullivan American Psychiatric Association (APA) Distinguished Fellow Awarded: 2026 Dr. Greg Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Florida and Program Director for the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship. He also serves as Director of the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Program at the James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa and provides inpatient geria...READ MORE

Chuanmin Hu The Oceanography Society Fellow Awarded: 2026 Chuanmin Hu, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Professor of optical oceanography in the College of Marine Science, who also directs the Optical Oceanography Lab. His research focuses on studying marine algal blooms (e.g., red tides), oil spills, and coastal water quality changes using field, laborat...READ MORE

Marilyn Stern Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Fellow Awarded: 2026 Dr. Marilyn Stern received her Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in clinical health psychology. Before she joined USF in 2013, she held academic positions at the University at Albany and Virginia Commonwealth Universit...READ MORE

Nima Karimian NSF CAREER Award Awarded: 2025 Dr. Nima Karimian is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida's Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing. He brings an interdisciplinary expertise that spans trustworthy AI, hardware security, and machine learning, positioning him at the forefront of t...READ MORE