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HOP Faculty Member Featured in Healthday as Nutritional Expert

In an article by Healthday, Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, provided expert commentary on recent findings about dieters replacing saturated fat with high-quality carbohydrates and polyunsaturated fats. Cardel was consulted to contribute to the article, “Dieters: Don’t Replace Saturated…

New HOP Faculty Member Featured on Three TV News Segments Since Arrival

Since her arrival in August, Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, has made three guest appearances on television stations in Denver, Colorado, and Orlando, Florida. The first appearance was made at Channel 9 News in Denver, where she contributed regularly to…

HOP Faculty Has Two Papers Accepted to the Global Wordnet Conference

Amanda Hicks, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, had two papers accepted to the Global Wordnet Conference, which will be held in Bucharest, Romania, January 27-30. Hicks is the first author of the paper “An Analysis of WordNet’s Coverage of Gender Identity…

Summer Presentations on NIH-funded Project with the Cherokee Nation Well Received

Kelli Komro, Ph.D., former associate director of the Institute for Child Health Policy at UF, and other members of her research team from the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy discussed preliminary results of their five-year, NIH-funded community-based trial, which aims to reduce underage alcohol use in rural Oklahoma…