Today mayor Bob Buckhorn along with representative Kathy Castor, Dr. William S. Dalton, Chief Executive officer and Center Director at Moffit Cancer center, and Michael Hoad associate Vice President Communications at USF Health gathered to promote the development of high tech jobs in Tampa and the surrounding region.
At the short media availability held at Tampa City Hall today, Kathy Castor spoke of the rapid growth of the University of South Florida which has become one of the leading research universities in the country. Castor stressed that this growth is extremely beneficial for the region and this combined with the booming health Industry provides Tampa with a great opportunity for growth.
Dalton and Hoad spoke of the Tampa Innovation Alliance, an association between institutions like Busch Gardens, University Community Hospital (UCH) and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, which was created with the intention of attracting more business to the North Tampa area and create more jobs in prominent fields such as the Health Industry.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.
