Students and faculty members in the Division of Implementation Science and Health Interventions will feature prominently in the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health. The event runs December 15-17 near Washington, D.C. and is co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health and AcademyHealth.
Ten speakers from UF’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) will share research at the event informally known within the field as the “The D&I Conference” for dissemination and implementation science.
Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., HOBI division chief for Implementation Science and Health Interventions, will be the conference’s only plenary speaker from Florida. He joins a panel of five experts for the concluding session on “Safeguarding the Benefits of D&I Science.” Salloum is also listed as co-author on eight other conference research presentations.
Cancer Connections
Nearly all HOBI speakers are sharing research about cancer, ranging from tobacco use to cervical cancer to diagnostic screenings.
Student Miranda Reid will present research three times. On Monday, Reid speaks twice on tobacco treatment programs and lung cancer screenings. On Tuesday, Reid presents a poster on “Gator IMPACT Scholars: A mini-course to integrate community-engaged implementation science into undergraduate education. This course is available free online.
Two HOBI faculty members will give oral presentations. Jaclyn M. Hall, Ph.D., will discuss policy research on cancer screenings in Florida that builds on newly published research on colorectal cancer and Medicaid. HOBI’s Associate Chair for Faculty Development Stephanie Staras, Ph.D., will present continuing studies on HPV vaccination rates among adolescents and how clinicians offering vaccines may benefit from role playing and other training exercises.
Research Posters
Presenters with posters are:
- Naomi Parker, Ph.D., “Designing a Multi-Level Intervention to Improve Cancer Clinical Trial Referrals: Findings from Formative Interviews with Academic Oncologists”
- Carma Bylund, Ph.D., “Acceptability of communication skills training as an implementation strategy: Examples in two different cancer-related contexts”
- Rahma Mkuu, Ph.D., “Improving Patient Education Materials for HPV Self-Collection: Insights from Women at High Risk of Developing Cervical Cancer”
- Dima Bteddini, Ph.D., “Outer setting influences on the pace of implementation for telephone-delivered tobacco use treatment in a low-resource and conflict setting”
- Sara Tohme, “Understanding patient perspectives to inform the implementation of tobacco use treatment in Lebanon’s primary care system: A qualitative study”
Search the conference’s Speaker List for all presenters and co-authors.