Jason E. Blatt, MD

12/01/2025

Grateful to receive a second Exemplary Teacher award from the UF College of Medicine. Teaching students and residents is the best part of being an academic surgeon. The lapel pin is a lot smaller than the original plaque, but it’ll be easier to wear! 😆

05/25/2024

Being a part of Lauren’s care team was such a privilege. It has been amazing to watch her recover and we love seeing her share her talents!

11/16/2023

What a joy it’s been to watch Taylor crush the pro fishing circuit since his surgery! Honored to be a part of this amazing young man’s care team and pleased to share his story.

Taylor Green gazes across his favorite place in the world, scanning the top of Lake Panasoffkee’s spring-fed water. But, in many ways, this 20-year-old pro…

07/11/2023

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On Friday Bailey had an appointment with Jason E. Blatt, MD! He is the brain surgeon who performed the surgery on Bailey in March at UF Shands Children’s Hospital to fully remove the brain tumor. Which the surgery then went amazing, he fully removed it and then even braided her hair around the incision after and took such good care of Bailey! The last visit when he learned Bailey likes to paint, he told her if she did a picture of a brain for him, he gets them framed for his office! So Bailey painted a brain for Dr. Blatt with a pink dot marker and then did the lines with a watercolor marker! She kept playing with Dr. Blatt with her ball the whole appointment lol she would have stayed and played with him all day! 🤣⚽️💕 He said Bailey looked great and her head healing looked great too! So we will see him again when we see her oncologist too around or the same day as her next MRI in August! We are so glad Bailey has the best doctors and care team!

03/31/2023

03/17/2023

Very grateful to my colleagues for election to the Society of Teaching Scholars - a group of about 50 faculty between Gainesville and Jacksonville who make teaching a central priority of their medical careers. Watching trainees grow is still one of the best parts of my job.❤️👨‍🎓🏅

03/09/2023

Just moving my stuff into some new office furniture, but it provided a great opportunity to reflect on how meaningful pediatric neurosurgical care is to our patients and their families. ❤️ And yes, that mug does say "Yoda Best Neurosurgeon." 😆

12/07/2022

From huge malignant brain tumor to tiny scar - all made possible by advances in brain cancer surgery and immunotherapy, and UF Health Shands Hospital is leading the way with support from The V Foundation for Cancer Research.

See our team’s work and our inspiring patients featured on ESPN and ABC News here 👉🏻 http://bit.ly/3Y7HjwO and consider donating!

12/01/2022

So honored to help ESPN and The V Foundation for Cancer Research in this important effort! And also proud to show off what we can do for kids fighting brain cancer here at University of Florida. Support for our work will lead to many more success stories like Mikah's. Together we fight for Cancer!

"Don't give up. Don't ever give up."The speech that continues to inspire and encourage countless people around the world, rings as true today as it did in 19...

08/14/2022

Honored by election to President of the Florida Neurosurgical Society today! Priorities for ‘22-23: Grow the number of appointed leadership positions as opportunities for FNS participation for all neurosurgeons, improve value of annual FNS meeting for private/employed colleagues outside academia, funding an annual award for med students to match the resident prize for top presentation, and membership of women & URMs. Lots to do but love a challenge!

06/14/2022

So proud of our hospital and our Neurosurgery team - once again achieving our highest-ever national ranking for pediatric brain care!

Related video: UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital ranked No. 1 in Florida

01/22/2022

Our team, along with collaborators, has published an absolute juggernaut of a paper in Nature Cancer reviewing the past, present, and (hopefully) future of immunotherapy for pediatric brain tumors. SIX of the authors are Florida Gators - we are THE premier center for these advanced treatments!

Hwang and colleagues discuss recent advances and current challenges in developing immunotherapies for pediatric brain cancer, as well as the clinical implications of ongoing and completed studies.