Congratulations, summer Ph.D. graduates

This summer, HOBI proudly graduated 3 doctoral students. Among them, the biomedical informatics division’s first PhD graduates, Hansi Zhang and Yunpeng Zhao. Health outcomes PhD student, Guanming Chen, also received her degree.  Congratulations graduates and go gators!

Meet Our Graduates

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Guanming Chen

Graduate: Guanming Chen

  • Ph.D. in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Health Outcomes.
  • Dissertation: “Metabolic Bariatric Surgery: Evidence from the OneFlorida Clinical Research”
  • Chair: Matthew Gurka, Ph.D.

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Hansi Zhang 

Graduate: Hansi Zhang

  • Ph.D in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Biomedical Informatics
  • Dissertation: “Semantic Data Integration of Health Information”
  • Chair: Jiang Bian, Ph.D.
  • Co-chair: William Hogan, M.D.

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Yunpeng Zhao

Graduate: Yunpeng Zhao

  • Ph.D. in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Biomedical Informatics
  • Dissertation: “Public Health Surveillance Using Social Media Data”
  • Chair: Jiang Bian, Ph.D.
  • Co-chair: Yi Guo, Ph.D.

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