Department Leadership
Elizabeth A Shenkman Ph.D.
Elizabeth Shenkman, PhD is the Chair of the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and also is the Co-Director of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement for the UF Health Cancer Center. Dr. Shenkman is a health outcomes researcher with a research focus on: 1) determining which combinations of health care delivery, community, and patient factors influence quality and outcomes of care; and 2) developing and testing corresponding evidence-based strategies to reduce disparities in health outcomes among underserved populations.
In her role as CTSI Co-Director and Co-Principle Investigator, Dr. Shenkman leads the Learning Health System initiative, including interfacing with clinicians, health system leaders, researchers, and patients to align research and clinical operations to systematically improve health outcomes and advance health equity using real world data combined with implementation and improvement science methodologies. In addition, Dr. Shenkman leads the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium, which was developed through the CTSI.
The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded OneFlorida Clinical Research Network is comprised of 10 different health system partners caring for over 15 M Floridians or approximately 60% of the population in the 3rd largest state in the US. The Floridians in this network include vulnerable populations who are rarely or minimally included in traditional clinical trials (e.g., those of lower socioeconomic status, racial and ethnic minorities, children, and older adults). A hallmark of OneFlorida is its centralized Data Trust, which contains linked health care claims, electronic health record, tumor registry, vital statistics, and census data from its health system partners for cohort discovery, study feasibility determination, and to augment primary data collection activities. Dr. Shenkman facilitates investigators’ access to OneFlorida clinical settings and the Data Trust for a wide range of studies including cancer-focused interventional trials.
Dr. Shenkman is an MPI for the NIH Office of the Director-funded All of Us Precision Medicine cohort initiative in collaboration with the University of Miami, Emory University and Morehouse School of Medicine. In that capacity, she is responsible for overseeing community engagement and recruitment and retention efforts focused on rural and underserved populations in North Florida. Dr. Shenkman also is the PI of an R01 funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality examining the effects of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with chronic conditions. The project uses electronic health record data to better measure health care use and clinical outcomes for adults with T2 diabetes and/or hypertension and who have intersecting identities (e.g., women who are black and residing in rural areas).
Dr. Shenkman’s research is funded by PCORI, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, NIH, and the National Cancer Institute. Her work is published in such journals as Pediatrics, Health Services Research, Clinical Epidemiology, Pediatric Blood and Cancer, and the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Shenkman is an elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society.
Matthew Gurka Ph.D.
Dr. Gurka is a Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and the department’s Associate Chair of Education at the University of Florida. Hired as part of the University’s Preeminence Initiative, Dr. Gurka is also Associate Director of the Institute for Child Health Policy. Prior to his recent appointment at UF, Dr. Gurka was the Founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at West Virginia University, where he also led the Clinical Research Design, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics Program of the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI). Before his stay at WVU, Dr. Gurka was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Gurka received a Ph.D. in biostatistics with an emphasis in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has experience in a wide range of applications of biostatistics to medical research, from the design and analysis of observational studies to the coordination and analysis of multi center longitudinal studies. His research areas in statistics include longitudinal data analyses, mixed models, model selection, power analysis, and cluster randomized trials. He has published articles in renowned statistical journals regarding complexities associated with the use of linear mixed models, and he served on the Editorial Panel of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. Collaboratively, he focuses primarily on child health research and currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pediatrics.
Dr. Gurka has extensive collaborative and independent research experience in pediatrics. He has obtained funding from the NICHD to study the impact of chronic illnesses such as asthma on development and behavior in children and adolescents. Recently he has focused on childhood and adult obesity, specifically studying the metabolic syndrome. He has obtained NIH funding (NIDDK R21, NHLBI R01) to develop and validate tools to measure metabolic syndrome severity. Currently he is leading numerous maternal and child health studies at UF, including co-leading the Florida site of the recently funded HBCD study, a ten-year national cohort of pregnant women and their children to study brain development in early childhood.
- Biostatistics
- Longitudinal research design and data analysis
- Metabolic syndrome
- Pediatric research
William Hogan M.D., M.S.
Dr. Hogan is Director of the Division of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, Director of Biomedical Informatics for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Florida, and Director of Informatics for the statewide OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium. He is the co-principal investigator on OneFlorida’s Clinical Data Research Network, which makes OneFlorida part of the National Patient Centered Clinical Research Network or PCORnet. OneFlorida is one of just 9 Clinical Research Networks in PCORnet 2.0 nationwide. Dr. Hogan is a Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Health Outcomes and Policy at the University of Florida. To these endeavors, he brings over 20 years of experience in development and implementation of large informatics systems, electronic health records, healthcare data warehouses at three institutions and the OneFlorida Data Trust, the National Retail Data Monitor for biosurveillance, and a suite of research informatics applications used in the National Children’s Study. Dr. Hogan is an accomplished researcher and practitioner of biomedical informatics, with expertise and research interests in biomedical ontology and terminology, electronic health records, research informatics, and biosurveillance. He has authored over 60 journal publications and peer-reviewed papers at conferences and has been principal investigator or co-investigator on over $90M of grant funding.
Dr. Hogan has research interests and expertise in biomedical ontology and terminology, translational science, the reuse of clinical and administrative data—especially electronic health record data—in research, and the development and deployment of large-scale informatics systems that span the state of Florida and the nation. He also has a strong research interest in the fundamental ways in which information is structured and represents biomedical reality, as well as how mismatches between information and reality impact data and information quality. Dr. Hogan has led or played a significant leadership role in the successful creation, implementation, and ongoing operation of (1) a national system for biosurveillance using point-of-sale data of over-the-counter healthcare products, (2) a system used for biosurveillance in Pennsylvania (the success of which led to several additional state and county health departments adopting the system), (3) a suite of open-source software applications for use in clinical and translational science both at a single institution and at multiple institutions participating in the National Children’s Study, (4) institutional and state-wide integrated data repositories in support of research, (5) electronic health records.
- Biomedical ontology
- Biomedical terminology
- Clinical and translational science
- Electronic medical records
Stephanie Staras Ph.D.
Stephanie A. S. Staras, M.S.P.H., Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and director of the department’s Division of Health Outcomes and Implementation Science. She is also a faculty member of the University of Florida’s Institute for Child Health Policy.
Dr. Staras is an expert in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine implementation research. She has served as principal investigator on eight implementation research grants, including a 5-year, $2.9 million grant from the NCI in 2019 to evaluate a multi-level intervention to boost HPV vaccine rates among 11- and 12-year-olds in Florida. Dr. Staras’ work highlights the strong association between HPV vaccine initiation and parents’ beliefs about the HPV vaccine’s ability to prevent cancer safely. Additionally, she led one of a handful of studies to assess a direct link between provider recommendations and parent beliefs. By simultaneously targeting parents with reminders and providers with an in-clinic, parent-tailored decision aid, Dr. Staras’ real-world, multi-level implementation trial demonstrated a synergistic increase on HPV vaccine initiation among girls. To target interventions at geographic areas of the greatest need, Dr. Staras is characterizing HPV-related disease burden in the University of Florida Cancer Catchment Area by triangulating data with an environmental scan that includes vaccination records, stakeholder interviews, and a provider discrete choice experiment.
Dr. Staras is a graduate of the highly recognized Mentored Training in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer program sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. Her excellence in research also was recognized by her inclusion in the University of Florida’s 2018-2019 University Term Professorship cohort. Dr. Staras also contributes her implementation science expertise to research grants on meningococcal B vaccination, smoking cessation, and cancer screenings.
Biomedical Informatics Faculty
Jiang Bian Ph.D.
Biomedical Informatics is an interdisciplinary field, where the central theme is to explore the effective uses of data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem-solving, and decision making, motived by efforts to import human health. I have a diverse yet strong multi-disciplinary background in data integration, semantic web, machine learning, natural language processing, social media analysis, network science, data privacy, and software engineering. Nevertheless, my expertise and background serve an overarching theme: data science with heterogeneous data, information and knowledge resources.
I am currently directing the Cancer Informatics & eHealth Core program (http://bit.ly/36IBw5s).
I have a diverse yet strong multi-disciplinary background. Nevertheless, my expertise and background serve an overarching theme: data science with heterogeneous data, information and knowledge resources. My research areas can be divided into three logical sections under this overarching theme: (1) data-driven medicine—applications of informatics techniques, including machine learning methods in medicine on solving big data problems; (2) mining the Internet, including the social web, to provide insights into health-related behavior and health outcomes of various populations and finding ways to develop interventions that promote public and consumer health; and (3) development of novel informatics methods, tools and systems to support clinical and clinical research activities such as tools for data integration, clinical trial generalizability assessment, and cohort discovery.
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- Cancer Informatics
- Social media
- data privacy in healthcare
- data science
- eHealth and user-centered design
- semantic web
Yi Guo Ph.D.
The increasing complexity of today’s biomedical research requires more than traditional, single point-of-view approaches. In particular, data-driven approaches that can reveal patterns in massive heterogeneous datasets and make clinically relevant predictions are becoming increasingly common in translational research. I have a strong, multi-disciplinary background in the analysis of real-world data such as those from the electronic health records (EHRs) and medical claims, data integration, predictive modeling, causal modeling and inference, mediation and moderation analysis, patient-reported outcomes, psychometric analysis, social media data analysis, and social media-delivered health interventions. Together, my areas of expertise serve an overarching research theme: data-driven precision health supporting clinical (shared) decision making and multilevel health interventions. Under the overarching theme, my research areas and expertise can be divided into four key methodologies: (1) EHR-based phenotyping and risk stratification – the identification of sub-populations with certain conditions or at higher risk for diseases; (2) Causal modeling and inference – the examination of causal relationships and pathways in clinical research, particularly treatment studies; (3) Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical and public health applications – the development, validation, assessment, analysis, and reporting of PROs among various populations, especially vulnerable populations; and (4) Social media analysis and social media-delivered intervention – mining social media data to study health behavior and health outcomes in various populations and developing social media-delivered interventions that promote public and consumer health.
My areas of expertise serve an overarching research theme: data-driven precision and public health supporting clinical (shared) decision making and multilevel health interventions. Under the overarching theme, my research areas and expertise can be divided into: 1) Electronic health records (EHR)-based phenotyping and risk stratification – the identification of sub-populations with certain conditions or at higher risk for diseases; 2) Causal modeling and inference – the examination of causal relationships and pathways in clinical and public health research, particularly treatment studies; 3) Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical and public health applications – the development, validation, assessment, analysis, and reporting of PROs among various populations, especially vulnerable populations; and 4) Social media analysis and social media-delivered intervention – mining social media data to study health behavior and health outcomes in various populations and developing social media-delivered interventions that promote public and consumer health.
Christopher A Harle Ph.D.
Dr. Chris Harle is a Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, and the Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO) at UF Health.
Dr. Harle’s research focuses on the design, adoption, use, and value of health information systems. His primary interest is in understanding how information technology-mediated communication tools affect consumer, patient, and provider decisions and behavior. Recently, with funding from Pfizer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), his research has focused on developing clinical decision support tools to support primary care clinicians in chronic pain care and opioid prescribing. Other recent research, funded by the NIH, focuses on developing interactive electronic informed consent processes for obtaining broad consent from patients to share their electronic health records for research studies.
Dr. Harle holds an MS in Decision and Information Sciences from the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration and a PhD in information systems and management from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College.
Christopher N Kaufmann PhD, MHS
Dr. Kaufmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is a public health researcher with interests at the intersection of aging, sleep, and health services research. His research focuses on using epidemiologic data to identify patterns in use of health services for sleep disorders among older adults and examining how such patterns affect trajectories of aging (e.g., cognitive decline and neurodegeneration) across the life course.
Dominick Lemas Ph.D.
Dominick Lemas is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida. Dr. Lemas received his bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Vermont in 2006 and completed his doctorate in biochemistry & molecular biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2012. His research is devoted to understanding the fetal origins of pediatric obesity with a specific interest in the functional implications of gut microflora and the critical host-microbe interactions that regulate maternal-infant metabolism.
- Biomedical informatics
- Child-maternal health
- Computational biology
- Metagenomics
- Molecular epidemiology
- Pediatric obesity
Todd Manini Ph.D.
Dr. Manini is a Professor at UF’s College of Medicine in the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research. He is the Chief of the newly formed Division of Epidemiology and Data science in Gerontology (EDGE) and leads the Data Science and Applied Technology Core at the UF Claude D. Pepper Older American’s Independence Center. He is recognized for his work on the sarcopenia and dynapenia, frailty, activity epidemiology, and energy metabolism specifically focused in older adults. Recently, he has gained considerable recognition for his team science work on wearable mobile technology (e.g. smart watches) that will allow an unprecedented understanding of the exposome—environmental and behavioral exposures in the free-living world— and their impact on geriatric syndromes. He currently receives or has received support from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Aging to conduct this work. At an international level, he has fellow status at two societies: The American College of Sports Medicine and The Gerontological Society of America (GSA). He is the Chair of the American College of Sports Medicine Strategic Health Initiative on Aging and he carried this leadership to the GSA where he served as the Co-Chair of the Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design (MSRD) Interest Group. He was a steering committee member of the Sarcopenia Definition and Outcomes Consortium that provided unprecedent new knowledge for defining sarcopenia for clinical use. He was also honored with being a standing member on NIH’s Center for Scientific Review as part of the Neurological, Aging and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology (NAME) Study Section. Lastly, he is serving as an Associated Editor of the Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences since 2020. He is an active mentor and teacher that strives to provide opportunities for the next generation of scientists. He was awarded in 2011 with the UF College of Medicine Exemplary Teachers Award and in 2018 he was recognized as a Master Mentor. He also graduated from the inaugural class of the UF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Academy of Research Excellence which emphasizes rigor and reproducibility. He is the principal investigator of a new National Institute on Aging training program called TRAM— Translational Research on Aging and Mobility. The training program is centered on mentoring trainees on translational research to preserve mobility in late-life. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and trying to being a great father to his son and daughter. He is a perpetual learner always keeping busy not only as a scientist, but a handyman, devoted podcast listener, avid disc golfer, ball golfer, chess and billiards player, soccer coach, and Minecraft gamer.
Mamoun Mardini Ph.D.
Data Science, Wearables, health informatics, Digital phenotyping
Keith E Muller Ph.D.
Professor Muller has NIH funding from NIGMS, NLM, and NCATS. His journal publications are split roughly equally between scientific collaborations and biostatistical methodology developments. In addition, Professor Muller is the first author of two current books on the theory and practice of linear models.
Professor Muller serves as co-principal investigator of 9R01GM121081-05, “Methods and Software for Lifecourse Epidemiology Data and Sample Size Analysis” funded by NIH/NIGMS, 08/15/2016-06/30/2020, as a continuation of 1R01DE020832-01A1. Co-principal investigators are Dr. D. H. Glueck (UCD) and Dr. D. Dabelea (UCD). Dr. Muller (UF) and Dr. D. H. Glueck (UCD) are co-PI of 1R25GM111901-01, “A Master Course on Power for Multilevel and Longitudinal Health Behavior Studies,” funded by NIH/OBSS and NIGMS, 08/25/2014-06/30/2018, and also 1G13LMO11879-01, “Guidebook to Power and Sample Size for linear models,” funded by NLM/NIH, 12/01/2014-11/30/2016.
Professor Muller’s current research centers on power and sample size for multilevel and longitudinal designs, especially with trajectories as predictors. He and colleagues also pursue advances in adaptive designs and High Dimension, Low Sample Size (more variables than participants).
- Biostatistics
- Health outcomes research
- Statistical methods
Yonghui Wu
Dr. Wu is an Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida. Dr. Wu’s research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers and has been the principal investigator for a number of grants, including an NLP grant from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. His research has contributed substantially to clinical and biomedical NLP – including information extraction from clinical notes and biomedical literature, Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) for ambiguous biomedical terms; predictive modeling for drug adverse reactions and drug new indications (known as drug repurposing); various applications to apply NLP and machine learning to solve clinical and translational problems.
Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. from the Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science with a focus on natural language processing. Then, he entered medical informatics research with a motivation to help improve the quality of healthcare delivery and the safety of patients. He has Biomedical informatics training at Vanderbilt University (2010-2012) and then University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (2012-2014).
Jie Xu Ph.D.
My research interests are machine learning, health informatics, and the intersection of both, with a particular focus on metric learning, federated learning, and privacy-preserving techniques.
I have been working on developing novel computational algorithms for analyzing various kinds of healthcare data, including Electronic Health Records (EHRs), medical and pharmacy claims data, medical imaging data, etc. One specific research direction that I am pursuing is metric learning. It aims to automatically learn a task-specific distance function to effectively calculate the similarity between the input data. One key aspect I have been working on is evaluating the clinical similarity between pairwise patients according to their historical EHR in a federated environment. Besides this, I also work on privacy-preserving technology like differential privacy in order to further protect patients’ information. Another major research topic that I am working on is to identify the potential subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease and use machine learning models to predict the future incidence of AD using administrative EHR in individuals.
- Machine learning and applications
Health Outcomes and Implementation Science Faculty

Caterina Alacevich
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- 2021 Health economics
- 2021 BMJ open
- 2021 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
- 2020 Journal of Comparative Economics
- 2017 Economics and human biology
Carma Bylund
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I am a behavioral scientist with international expertise in healthcare communication across the cancer continuum and in dementia. My research focuses on the development, implementation, and testing of communication interventions for clinicians, patients, and caregivers to improve health outcomes. My research collaborations have resulted in more than $11 million in funding. I have published 138 peer-reviewed papers and co-edited two Oxford books on healthcare communication and the Wiley International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. I am Editor-in-Chief of PEC Innovation and Associate Editor of Patient Education and Counseling.
- 2022 Palliative and Supportive Care
- 2022 The American journal of hospice & palliative care
- 2022 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- 2022 Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology
- 2022 Psycho-oncology
- 2022 Health Communication
- 2022 PloS one
- 2022 Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
- 2022 Journal of Health Communication
- 2022 JMIR Cancer
- 2022 Journal of palliative medicine
- 2022 Clinical endocrinology
- 2021 Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
- 2021 Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
- 2021 Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
- 2021 Internet interventions
- 2021 Neurology. Clinical practice
- 2021 Journal of graduate medical education
- 2021 Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
- 2021 Translational behavioral medicine
- 2021 Patient education and counseling
- 2021 Patient education and counseling
- 2021 Chest
- 2021 Patient education and counseling
- 2021 Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
- 2021 Patient education and counseling
- 2021 Palliative and Supportive Care
- 2021 Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- 2021 Translational behavioral medicine
- 2021 Patient education and counseling
- 2021 Geriatric Nursing
- 2021 Sex Education
- 2020 Patient education and counseling
- 2020 International Journal of Stress Management
- 2020 Advances in medical education and practice
- 2020 Patient Education and Counseling
- 2020 Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
- 2020 Journal of health communication
- 2020 Psycho-oncology
- 2020 Patient Education and Counseling
- 2019 Cancer nursing
- 2019 Patient education and counseling
- 2019 PloS one
- 2019 Patient Education and Counseling
- 2019 Journal of health communication
- 2018 Patient Education and Counseling
- 2018 PloS one
- 2018 Cancer
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The Use of Simulation to Improve Resident Communication and Personal Experience at End-of-Life Care.Journal of pediatric intensive care
- 2017 Translational behavioral medicine
- 2017 Patient education and counseling
- 2017 Journal of family & community medicine
- 2017 Clinical trials (London, England)
- 2017 International journal of medical education
- 2017 Journal of psychosocial oncology
- 2017 Medical education
- 2017 Journal of genetic counseling
- 2017 Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit
- 2016 Preventive medicine
- 2016 Nurse education in practice
- 2016 BMJ open
- 2016 Patient education and counseling
- 2016 Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare
- 2016 Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
- 2015 The International journal of social psychiatry
- 2015 Psycho-oncology
- 2015 The International journal of social psychiatry
- 2015 Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
- 2015 BMC cancer
- 2015 Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry
- 2015 Clinical journal of oncology nursing
- 2015 BMC cancer
- 2015 Palliative & supportive care
- 2015 Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
- 2015 Radiology
- 2015 Palliative & supportive care
- 2015 Translational behavioral medicine
- 2015 Cancer
- 2014 Qualitative health research
- 2014 Patient education and counseling
- 2014 Pediatric blood & cancer
- 2014 Health communication
- 2013 Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
- 2012 Patient education and counseling
- 2012 Hospital pediatrics
- 2012 Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
- 2012 Journal of oncology practice
- 2012 Patient education and counseling
- 2012 Journal of genetic counseling
- 2012 Patient education and counseling
- 2012 Patient education and counseling
- 2012 Patient education and counseling
- 2012 Journal of psychosocial oncology
- 2011 Patient education and counseling
- 2011 Patient education and counseling
- 2011 Palliative & supportive care
- 2011 Psycho-oncology
- 2011 Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
- 2011 Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
- 2011 Journal of psychosocial oncology
- 2010 Patient education and counseling
- 2010 Psycho-oncology
- 2010 Journal of psychosocial oncology
- 2010 Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
- 2010 Psycho-oncology
- 2009 Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice
- 2009 Patient education and counseling
- 2009 Cancer nursing
- 2009 Psycho-oncology
- 2009 Medical education
- 2009 Palliative & supportive care
- 2008 Patient education and counseling
- 2008 Evidence-based mental health
- 2008 Health communication
- 2008 Patient education and counseling
- 2008 Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
- 2008 Health communication
- 2007 Journal of health communication
- 2007 Health communication
- 2007 Patient education and counseling
- 2006 Medical education online
- 2005 Journal of American college health : J of ACH
- 2005 Health communication
- 2005 Health communication
- 2002 Patient education and counseling
- 1993 Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica
- 1989 Foot & ankle
- 1989 Foot & ankle
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Dignity Therapy for Older Cancer Patients: Identifying Mechanisms and ModeratorsNATL INST OF HLTH NCI · Principal Investigator
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Understanding Older Adults Cancer Experiences, Support Needs, and CommunicationLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOC · Co-Investigator
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Enhancing Communication Skills of Primary Care Providers to Improve Patient Access to Clinical Trials and Quality Cancer Care.LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOC · Principal Investigator
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Adequate selection of patients for thyroid biopsy: evaluation of a shared decision making conversation aidNATL INST OF HLTH NCI · Other
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Communication of Dementia Diagnoses: Investigating Patient, Family, and Physician Experiences and Developing Best PracticesFL DEPT OF HLTH ED ETHEL MOORE ALZHEIMER · Co-Investigator
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Text and Talk: A multi-level intervention to increase provider HPV vaccine recommendation effectivenessNATL INST OF HLTH NCI · Co-Investigator
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Improving Family and Healthcare Communication for Caregivers of Parents with Blood CancerLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOC · Principal Investigator
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College of Journalism and Communications Faculty Seed AwardUF FOUNDATION · Project Manager
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Together: Transforming and Translating Discovery to Improve HealthNATL INST OF HLTH NCATS · Project Manager
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UF Health Cancer Center Pilot Project Grants funded through the Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers ProgramUF HEALTH SHANDS HOSPITAL · Project Manager
Jaclyn M Hall Ph.D.
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As a medical geographer, I contribute to a variety of health outcomes studies, and to the larger initiatives of the department and college. Due to my diverse background in spatial technologies and experience with environmental data, I contribute to a variety of community health and heath policy related research, both in geographic analyses and geographic data management. My research provides insight into the rurality and other spatial trends of patient data that is vital to several initiatives of the UF Cancer Center, Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, several large Medicaid Managed Care evaluation projects, and multiple studies using data from the OneFlorida Clinical Data Research Network. My contributions include working with researchers on study design, managing the process of geocoding (generating spatial locations from written address data) multiple large data sources, analyses of health care network adequacy, hotspot identification, cluster analyses, and creation of new spatial data sets.
- 2021 Substance use & misuse
- 2021 American journal of preventive medicine
- 2020 Medical care
- 2019 Jama Pediatrics
- 2019 International journal of environmental research and public health
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Objectively measured pediatric obesity prevalence using the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium.Obesity research & clinical practice
- 2019 Preventive medicine reports
- 2019 Preventive medicine reports
- 2018 Obesity science & practice
- 2018 American Journal of Managed Care
- 2018 Preventing chronic disease
- 2018 Scientific Data
- 2018 BMC public health
- 2018 Scientific data
- 2017 Carbon balance and management
- 2017 JAMA
- 2016 Global Change Biology
- 2015 Journal of bioscience and bioengineering
- 2015 Global change biology
- 2014 Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
- 2011 Environmental management
- 2009 Biological Conservation
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FLDOH PO – 2021-2022 – Educating Community Leaders about Tobacco RegulationFL DEPT OF HLTH · Co-Investigator
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Health Policy Training in Tobacco Prevention and CessationFL DEPT OF HLTH · Co-Investigator
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Sunshine Portal Year 2FL OFFICE OF EARLY LEARNING · Co-Investigator
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Research Data Centers: Florida Research Data CenterNATL SCIENCE FOU · Co-Investigator
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RAPID: Adaptive Sampling Strategies for COVID-19 Mass TestingNATL SCIENCE FOU · Co-Investigator
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Prevention of Vaping and Tobacco Product Use Among Rural Youth in FloridaAETNA FOUNDATION · Co-Investigator
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The provision of research and evaluation to determine the short and long-term human health impacts from harmful algal blooms (HABs)FL DEPT OF HLTH · Co-Investigator
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Collaborative Research: Building Forest Management into Earth System Modeling: Scaling From Stand to ContinentNATL SCIENCE FOU · Project Manager
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Georges Khalil Ph.D.
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2004 MOWRY RD OFC 2252
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Georges Khalil is a cancer prevention scientist and health communication specialist in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics. Prior to his appointment at the University of Florida, Dr. Khalil served as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then Instructor faculty at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He earned a Master of Public Health from the University of Southern California (2010) and a Doctoral degree in Communication from the State University of New York at Buffalo (2015).
Dr. Khalil’s research interests are cancer prevention, digital technologies, and social interactivity. His work primarily focuses on the design and evaluation of entertainment programs and technology-based interventions that aim to improve clinical and behavioral outcomes related to cancer prevention and control among youths. He is particularly passionate about the application of games for health to bring about behavior change.
Most recently, his research has focused on tobacco prevention, exploring adolescents’ reactions to ASPIRE, a web-based smoking prevention program, and the study of young adults’ experience with a mobile health campaign for tobacco-risk communication. He has also conducted studies on Re-Mission, a video game designed to improve medication adherence among pediatric cancer patients and cancer-risk communication among young-adult college students. Funded by an R00 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. Khalil is currently developing and testing social influence strategies for tobacco prevention and cessation among adolescents.
Dr. Khalil has presented at both national and international conferences including the World Cancer Congress and has been recipient of a variety of awards including the Early Career Investigator Award from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and a New Investigator Workshop Award from the American Society of Preventive Oncology.
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Outstanding Trainee Award Nomination2019 · Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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NIH Travel Award for Collaborative Research on Addiction2019 · National Institute on Drug Abuse
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Early Career Investigator Award2018 · Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco – Europe
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New Investigator Workshop Award2016 · American Society of Preventive Oncology
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NCI R25T Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Cancer Prevention Research2015 · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Top Student Paper Award in Health Communication2014 · National Communication Association, Health Communication Division
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NCI R25T Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award in Cancer Prevention Research2013 · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Competitively Selected Research at the Games for Health Europe Conference2013 · Foundation of Applied Games
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Teaching Assistantship Stipend2012 · University at Buffalo, Department of Communication
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Graduate Student Employee Union Doctoral Retention Enhancement Award2011 · University at Buffalo, Department of Communication
- 2021 Addictive behaviors
- 2021 JMIR mHealth and uHealth
- 2021 Addictive behaviors reports
- 2020 Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.)
- 2019 Addictive behaviors reports
- 2019 PloS one
- 2019 Tobacco induced diseases
- 2018 Addictive behaviors
- 2018 Food microbiology
- 2018 JMIR research protocols
- 2018 Tobacco prevention & cessation
- 2017 Health services research and managerial epidemiology
- 2017 BMC public health
- 2017 The American journal on addictions
- 2017 Journal of medical Internet research
- 2016 JMIR serious games
- 2016
- 2016 International journal of food microbiology
- 2015
- 2015 International journal of psychology and psychoanalysis
- 2014 Health education research
- 2013 Acta tropica
- 2012 Games for health journal
- 2008 European cytokine network
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Jun 2020
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Social Influence Strategies during a Web-based Smoking Prevention Intervention for AdolescentsNATL INST OF HLTH NIDA · Principal Investigator
Rahma S Mkuu
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PO Box 100177
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
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2199 MOWRY RD RM 143 BLDG 2020
GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Dr. Mkuu is a health outcomes and chronic disease researcher in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida. Dr. Mkuu’s work focuses on disentangling determinants of health outcomes and identifying evidenced-interventions and policies that improve the health of under-served populations. Dr. Mkuu is also involved with leading evaluation projects that are part of the Texas Medicaid External Quality Review Organization.
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Honor Graduate2018 · Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A&M University
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Distinguished Honor Graduate2018 · College of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University
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Highest Scoring Student Abstract2017 · American Public Health Association, Women’s Caucus
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Diversity Fellow2015-2018 · Texas A&M University
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Health Promotion Policy Fellow2014-2015 · Arkansas Department of Health
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Student of the Year Nominee2012 · Department of Health Education and Behavior, University of Florida
- Cancer
- Global Health
- HIV Prevention
- Hypertension
- Obesity prevention and treatment
- Program evaluation
- quality improvement
- 2022 Journal of sex research
- 2022 BMC cancer
- 2022 Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
- 2021 Medicine
- 2021 Nutrients
- 2021 Public health
- 2021 Preventive medicine reports
- 2021 Journal of human hypertension
- 2020 Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)
- 2020 Journal of Correctional Health Care
- 2019 Psychology Health & Medicine
- 2019 PLoS One
- 2019 AIMS public health
- 2019 Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
- 2019 The International journal on drug policy
- 2018
- 2018 BMC public health
- 2018 Journal of offender rehabilitation
- 2018 Preventing Chronic Disease
- 2017 Health Behavior and Policy Review
- 2017 Maternal and Child Health Journal
- 2017 Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
- 2017 American Journal of Health Education
- 2017 American Journal of Health Education
- 2017 Frontiers in public health
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Jul 2021
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Together: Transforming and Translating Discovery to Improve HealthNATL INST OF HLTH NCATS · Project Manager
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Nov 2020
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COVID-19 Targeted PCORI FundingCORNELL UNIV · Principal Investigator
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2018
PhD, Health EducationTexas A&M University
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2014
MPH, Master of Public HealthColumbia University
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2012
BS, Health Education and BehaviorUniversity of Florida
Ramzi G Salloum Ph.D.
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PO Box 100177
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
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2004 MOWRY RD
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Dr. Salloum is an associate professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida College of Medicine and the director of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Core at the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Salloum is a member of the UF Health Cancer Center and the Institute for Child Health Policy.
Dr. Salloum’s research focuses on the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based practices, especially in cancer prevention and control. He has a demonstrated research record in the area of health services research across diverse health system and policy settings, with a particular focus on the implementation of evidence-based programs. This work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Florida Department of Health, the International Development Research Centre, Cancer Research UK, and the CVS Foundation.
Dr. Salloum is well-versed in implementation science methods and frameworks and has served as faculty for the National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer (TIDIRC). He is the recipient of two NCI-supported fellowships from the Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN)’s Cancer Research Network (CRN) Scholars Program (2015-2017); and the Mentored Training for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer (MT-DIRC) Program (2016-2018).
Dr. Salloum teaches Fundamentals of Dissemination and Implementation Research (GMS 6851).
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UF Health Cancer Center Representative2020-Current · Florida Cancer Control & Research Advisory Council (CCRAB)
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Chair2019-2021 · American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) Global Cancer Research Special Interest Group
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High-Enroller Award2019 · UF Health Cancer Center
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Member2017-Current · American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Tobacco Consortium
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Vice Chair2017-2018 · American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) Global Cancer Research Special Interest Group
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Exemplary Teacher Award2017 · UF College of Medicine
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Advisory Committee Member2016-2019 · Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Global Health Network
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Fellow2016-2018 · NCI Mentored Training in Dissemination and Implementation Research (MT-DIRC)
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Member2016-2017 · OneFlorida Cancer Control Alliance – Scientific Advisory Committee
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Scholar2015-2017 · NCI Cancer Research Network (CRN) Scholars Program
- 2022 Implementation science communications
- 2022 Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
- 2022 Addictive behaviors
- 2022 Tobacco Control
- 2022 Nicotine & Tobacco Research
- 2022 Cancers
- 2022 Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- 2022 Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
- 2022 Clinical and Translational Science
- 2022 Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice
- 2022 Nicotine & Tobacco Research
- 2022 Preventive medicine reports
- 2022 BMJ Open
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Implementation context for addressing social needs in a learning health system: a qualitative study.Journal of clinical and translational science
- 2021 Patient education and counseling
- 2021 Implementation Science Communications
- 2021 Journal of applied behavior analysis
- 2021 Psycho-oncology
- 2021 American journal of perinatology
- 2021 Journal of substance abuse treatment
- 2021 Tobacco induced diseases
- 2021 Tobacco Control
- 2021 Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- 2021 Preventive medicine reports
- 2021 Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
- 2021 Transplantation and cellular therapy
- 2021 JAMA pediatrics
- 2021 American journal of preventive medicine
- 2021 American journal of preventive medicine
- 2021 Journal of General Internal Medicine
- 2021 Journal of palliative medicine
- 2021 Tobacco prevention & cessation
- 2021 Tobacco Control
- 2021 Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
- 2021 Preventing chronic disease
- 2021 Tobacco prevention & cessation
- 2021 Addictive behaviors
- 2021 Substance use & misuse
- 2021 Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association
- 2021 JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
- 2021 Tobacco Control
- 2021 Preventive medicine
- 2021 Supportive Care in Cancer
- 2021 Endocrine
- 2021 Oral Oncology
- 2021 JAMIA open
- 2021 Medicine
- 2021 Nicotine & Tobacco Research
- 2020 American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- 2020 Neurology
- 2020 Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
- 2020 Addictive behaviors reports
- 2020 Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
- 2020 Journal of health communication
- 2020 Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
- 2020 BMJ Open
- 2020 Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- 2020 Substance use & misuse
- 2020 Journal of general internal medicine
- 2020 Tobacco induced diseases
- 2020 Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
- 2020 Nutrients
- 2020 Tobacco induced diseases
- 2020 International journal of environmental research and public health
- 2020 Contemporary clinical trials
- 2020 Cancer causes & control : CCC
- 2020 International journal of environmental research and public health
- 2020 Tobacco regulatory science
- 2020 Tobacco use insights
- 2019 Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
- 2019 Preventive medicine reports
- 2019 Preventive medicine reports
- 2019 JMIR Formative Research
- 2019
- 2019 JAMA pediatrics
- 2019 Addictive behaviors
- 2019 JAMA network open
- 2019 Substance use & misuse
- 2019 Jcr-Journal of Clinical Rheumatology
- 2019 Substance use & misuse
- 2019 Substance use & misuse
- 2019
- 2019 PLOS ONE
- 2019 Health promotion international
- 2019 Jama Pediatrics
- 2019 Preventive medicine reports
- 2019 Tobacco Regulatory Science
- 2018 Addictive behaviors
- 2018 Children (Basel, Switzerland)
- 2018 BMC public health
- 2018 Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology
- 2018 Cancer causes & control : CCC
- 2018 Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN
- 2018 Tobacco induced diseases
- 2018 International journal of environmental research and public health
- 2018 Preventive medicine
- 2018
- 2018 Tobacco regulatory science
- 2018 Drug and alcohol dependence
- 2018 The Psychological Record
- 2018 Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy
- 2018 Tobacco control
- 2018 Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
- 2017 Implementation science : IS
- 2017 Tobacco control
- 2017 Preventive medicine
- 2017 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
- 2017 Southern medical journal
- 2017 Journal of Oncology Practice
- 2017 Journal of oncology practice
- 2017 Journal of Medical Internet Research
- 2017 Addictive behaviors
- 2017 American journal of preventive medicine
- 2016 American journal of public health
- 2016 Preventing chronic disease
- 2016 American journal of preventive medicine
- 2016 American Journal of Public Health
- 2016 Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice
- 2016 PloS one
- 2016 Journal of general internal medicine
- 2016 International journal of public health
- 2016 Patient education and counseling
- 2016 American journal of preventive medicine
- 2015 Preventive medicine
- 2015 Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
- 2015 Tobacco control
- 2015 Tobacco control
- 2015 Drug and alcohol dependence
- 2015 Tobacco control
- 2015 Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice
- 2015 Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
- 2015 Tobacco control
- 2015 Preventive medicine
- 2015 BMJ open
- 2014 Journal of Womens Health
- 2014 International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
- 2014 Journal of women's health (2002)
- 2014 JAMA otolaryngology– head & neck surgery
- 2014 Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- 2014 Tobacco induced diseases
- 2013 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs
- 2013 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs
- 2013 Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
- 2013 BMC public health
- 2013 Journal of women's health (2002)
- 2013 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs
- 2013 Medical care
- 2012 Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- 2012 Cancer
- 2012 Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- 2011 Cancer
- 2003 Surgical endoscopy
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May 2022
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Comparative Effectiveness of Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Approaches among Underserved Patients in Primary CarePATIENT-CENTERED OUTCOMES RES INST · Principal Investigator
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Apr 2022
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Point-of-care intervention to address financial toxicity in families facing pediatric cancerFL DEPT OF HLTH LIVE LIKE BELLA · Principal Investigator
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Nov 2021
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FLDOH PO – 2021-2022 – Educating Community Leaders about Tobacco RegulationFL DEPT OF HLTH · Co-Investigator
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Oct 2021
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Feb 2022
Describing Tobacco-Related Health Systems by County Analysis of OneFlorida DataRTI INTERNATIONAL · Principal Investigator
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Sep 2021
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Scaling Interoperable Clinical Decision Support for Patient-Centered Chronic Pain CareAGCY HEALTHCARE RES AND QUALITY · Principal Investigator
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Sep 2021
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Preemptive pharmacogenetic testing in medically underserved populationsNATL INST OF HLTH NHGRI · Co-Investigator
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Jul 2021
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Apr 2022
Project SMART: Social Media Anti-vaping Messages to Reduce ENDS Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority TeensUNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA · Principal Investigator
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Jun 2021
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Reducing tobacco-associated lung cancer risk: A randomized clinical trial of AB-free kavaFL DEPT OF HLTH BIOMED RES PGM/J&E KING · Co-Investigator
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Feb 2021
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Jun 2021
Health Policy Training in Tobacco Prevention and CessationFL DEPT OF HLTH · Co-Investigator
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Jul 2020
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Adequate selection of patients for thyroid biopsy: evaluation of a shared decision making conversation aidNATL INST OF HLTH NCI · Other
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May 2020
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Prevention of Vaping and Tobacco Product Use Among Rural Youth in FloridaAETNA FOUNDATION · Principal Investigator
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Jan 2020
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The benefits and harms of lung cancer screening in FloridaNATL INST OF HLTH NCI · Co-Investigator
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Oct 2019
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Clinically-Efficient Strategies to Address Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Pediatric PracticeFL DEPT OF HLTH BIOMED RES PGM/J&E KING · Principal Investigator
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Sep 2018
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Eastern Mediterranean Consortium on the Economics of Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking: Capacity Building and Knowledge TranslationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT · Principal Investigator
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Nov 2015
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Oct 2016
Exploring methods to elicit individual patient preferences at diagnosis to inform patient-centered careUNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA · Principal Investigator
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Jun 2015
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Dec 2016
Waterpipe tobacco smoking among University studentsZAYED UNIVERSITY · Principal Investigator
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May 2015
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Apr 2017
CRN Scholars Award – CRN4: Cancer Research Resources & Collaboration in Integrated Health Care SystemsKAISER FOU RESEARCH INSTITUTE · Principal Investigator
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May 2015
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Oct 2016
Building evidence for effective and sustainable cigarette warning label policyUNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA · Principal Investigator
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Apr 2015
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Jun 2021
Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)UF DIV OF SPONSORED RES MATCHING FUNDS · Project Manager
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Mar 2015
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Jan 2017
Waterpipe tobacco smoking amoung university students: Testing policy and prevention tools using a discrete choice.AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT · Principal Investigator
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Feb 2015
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UF Health Cancer Center Pilot Project Grants funded through the Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers ProgramUF HEALTH SHANDS HOSPITAL · Project Manager
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Jun 2014
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Dec 2017
OneFlorida Cancer Control NetworkFL DEPT OF HLTH BIOMED RES PGM/J&E KING · Co-Investigator
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2011-2013
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cancer Care QualityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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2011
PhD, EconomicsWayne State University
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2007
MA, EconomicsUniversity of South Florida
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2002
MBA, Business AdministrationUniversity of South Florida
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2001
BS, Management Information SystemsUniversity of South Florida
Khairul A Siddiqi
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2197 MOWRY RD RM 188
GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Dr. Khairul A Siddiqi, a health services researcher, has been working in the public health sector for more than five years in both developed and resource-poor health care settings. His current research focus is to assess the health care services, policies, and programs using mixed-method (quantitative and qualitative approaches) with a view to increasing health care access and improving the quality of life of socially disadvantaged people, such as Medicaid beneficiaries, people living with HIV, older people with multimorbidity. He is currently working with different electronic health records (EHRs) and state and national databases to leverage the best use of secondary data in ending the HIV epidemic in Florida and the United States. His commitment to public health is studying how care is delivered, identify opportunities for care improvement, and implement new approaches for organizing and delivering health services.
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UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) Precision Health Initiative Pilot Award2021 · National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health
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Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Award2019 · Center for Teaching Excellence, University of South Carolina
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The Outstanding Achievement and Student Triumph Award2018 · University of South Carolina
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SPARC Graduate Research Grant2018 · Office of the Vice President for Research, University of South Carolina
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Arnold Fellowship Award2015 · Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
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UNFPA Research Fellowship Award2012 · United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) & University of Dhaka
- Access to care
- HIV Prevention
- Health Policy
- Maternal and Child Health
- health services research
- 2022 AIDS and behavior
- 2022 The American journal of emergency medicine
- 2021 Methods of information in medicine
- 2020 Medicine
- 2020 International journal of STD & AIDS
- 2017 Social Science Review
- 2017 The Columbia Journal of Global Health
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Jul 2021
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Together: Transforming and Translating Discovery to Improve HealthNATL INST OF HLTH NCATS · Project Manager
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2020
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)University of South Carolina
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2013
Master of Population Sciences (MPS)University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
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2010
Bachelor of Science (BS Honors)University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sarah M Szurek Ph.D.
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PO Box 100177
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
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2197 MOWRY RD
GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Dr. Sarah M. Szurek is a medical anthropologist who holds a faculty position as an assistant research scientist in the College of Medicine’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics. She also serves as program director for the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement at the UF Health Cancer Center.
Dr. Szurek’s work focuses on understanding the social and cultural factors that influence health outcomes among marginalized populations to then develop targeted, evidence-based programs to positively affect health in community settings. She has worked with Mexican immigrants in Alabama to examine how personal social networks affect diabetes risk, and with African Americans in Florida on community-based participatory research projects related to racism, cardiovascular disease, and the local food environment. Dr. Szurek previously directed the Florida Healthy Kids Program evaluation, which examined the quality of care that children receive in the state.
She currently is responsible for developing and managing community-based programs that identify cancer-relevant needs, target cancer prevention, and improve health outcomes in twenty-three counties in Florida. Dr. Szurek is a voting member of the Scientific Review and Monitoring Committee within the UF Health Cancer Center’s Clinical Research Office. She also serves on the Steering Committees for the North Central Florida Cancer Control Collaborative and the ABOUT Network – Project COGENT (Customizing Consumer GENerated Tools to Engage Researchers).
- 2022 BMC cancer
- 2021 Cancer medicine
- 2021 Medicine
- 2021 Childhood obesity (Print)
- 2020 Journal of clinical and translational science
- 2020 Obesity science & practice
- 2015 Practicing Anthropology
- 2015 American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- 2015 Practicing Anthropology
- 2015 American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- 2015 American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- 2006 Nutritional Anthropology
Ryan P Theis Ph.D.
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PO Box 100147
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
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2197 MOWRY RD STE 184
GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Dr. Theis is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and the Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP) at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is a medical anthropologist specializing in the use of qualitative methods in implementation and improvement science, health care quality measurement, and program evaluation. His research focuses on health disparities and health care quality in publicly insured populations, with an emphasis on children and adults in Medicaid who require long-term services and supports.
Dr. Theis presently oversees evaluation studies as a key investigator of the External Quality Review Organization for Texas Medicaid and CHIP. He also provides qualitative and mixed-methods expertise in collaboration with other UF faculty to inform the development and adoption of evidence-based practices in local clinical settings, including studies funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (PI: Shenkman), the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program (PI: Salloum), and the Aetna Foundation (PI: Salloum). Dr. Theis is a member of the operations committee for the UF CTSI Learning Health System Program, and serves as a subject matter expert on Texas DSRIP Program workgroups related to social determinants of health and telehealth. Dr. Theis received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Florida. His dissertation work, funded by the U.S. Fulbright Program, used ethnographic methods to understand experiences and perceptions of discrimination among low-income social service users in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 2022 BMJ Open Quality
- 2021 Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
- 2021 Implementation science communications
- 2021 BMC pregnancy and childbirth
- 2021 Childhood obesity (Print)
- 2020 Maternal and child health journal
- 2020 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- 2020 Journal of health services research & policy
- 2020 Obesity science & practice
- 2020 Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
- 2019 JMIR Formative Research
- 2018 Children (Basel, Switzerland)
- 2018 Health marketing quarterly
- 2017 International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing
- 2017 Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy
- 2017 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
- 2009 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
- 2008 BMC cancer
- 2003 The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
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May 2022
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Comparative Effectiveness of Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Approaches among Underserved Patients in Primary CarePATIENT-CENTERED OUTCOMES RES INST · Co-Investigator
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Jul 2021
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Apr 2022
Project SMART: Social Media Anti-vaping Messages to Reduce ENDS Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority TeensUNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA · Co-Investigator
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May 2020
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Prevention of Vaping and Tobacco Product Use Among Rural Youth in FloridaAETNA FOUNDATION · Co-Investigator
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Oct 2019
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Clinically-Efficient Strategies to Address Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Pediatric PracticeFL DEPT OF HLTH BIOMED RES PGM/J&E KING · Co-Investigator
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May 2018
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Oct 2019
A Mixed Method Evaluation of the ABP PIMs: Understanding the ABP Diplomat's Perspectives and Experiences for Programmatic EnhancementTHE AMER BOARD OF PEDIATRICS · Co-Investigator
Carla Vandeweerd PhD
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ENG 202
4202 E. Fowler Ave
Tampa FL 33620
- 2020 PloS one
- 2020 Traffic injury prevention
- 2016 Violence against women
- 2016 International journal of geriatric psychiatry
- 2016 Journal of women & aging
- 2014 Journal of nutrition in gerontology and geriatrics
- 2014 Journal of women & aging
- 2013 Journal of aging research
- 2013 Psycho-oncology
- 2013 The journal of sexual medicine
- 2009 Violence and victims
- 2008 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- 2007 Aging & mental health
- 2006 The Nursing clinics of North America
- 2005 The Gerontologist
- 2005 The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
- 2005 Journal of elder abuse & neglect
- 2004 Applied nursing research : ANR
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Jan 2022
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Alzheimer's Disease Staging from EEG and Neurovascular Clinical DataAPPLIED COGNITION · Principal Investigator
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Sep 2021
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Tailoring Recruitment Communication using Virtual Human Technology to Increase Participation of Older Minority Adults in Clinical TrialsNATL INST OF HLTH NIA · Co-Investigator
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Apr 2021
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ACTIV-6: COVID-19 Outpatient Randomized Trial to Evaluate Efficacy of Repurposed Medications (Villages)DUKE UNIVERSITY · Principal Investigator
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Apr 2021
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A Community Based Participatory Research Approach to Improving Health and Wellness for Older Adults in The Villages Comparing Remote Monitoring Device AdherenceCASANA CARE · Principal Investigator
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Dec 2020
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A Community Based Participatory Research Approach to Improving Health and Wellness for Older Adults in The VillagesABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES · Principal Investigator
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Feb 2015
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UF Health Cancer Center Pilot Project Grants funded through the Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers ProgramUF HEALTH SHANDS HOSPITAL · Project Manager
W B Vogel Ph.D.
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PO Box 100177
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
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2004 Mowry Road
Office 2240, Clinical and Translational Research Bldg
GAINESVILLE FL 32608
W. Bruce Vogel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida. An economist by training, Dr. Vogel has extensive experience in a broad array of health services research and health economics projects. His interests focus on applied mathematical and statistical modeling in the areas of outcomes, access, and costs across a variety of chronically-ill populations, including Medicaid enrollees, children, and veterans. Dr. Vogel is currently the lead principal investigator on a three-year, $3M evaluation of the Managed Medical Assistance (MMA) Program, Florida’s statewide transition of Medicaid from fee-for-service to managed care. He is also involved in conducting analyses as a part of the Texas Medicaid External Quality Review Organization. Dr. Vogel was previously Co-Director of the original Florida Health Insurance Study and also served as the Director of the Methodology Core at the VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center and the VA Center for Innovation in Disability and Rehabilitation Research. He has served on the VA’s Scientific Merit Review Board and the VA’s National Advisory Panel on Statistics and Analytics, and is currently an Associate Editor of BMC Health Services Research. His research has appeared in Medical Care, Health Services Research, Inquiry, Health Care Management Science, and Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, among others. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the George Washington University.
- 2021 Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
- 2021 AIDS Care
- 2021 Implementation science communications
- 2020 JMIR Research Protocols
- 2020 Biostatistics & Epidemiology
- 2018 Academic Pediatrics
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2018
Role of Prices, Utilization, and Health in Explaining Texas Medicaid Newborn Care Spending VariationMedical care
- 2017 Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
- 2017 International journal of emergency medicine
- 2016 Medical care
- 2015 BMC health services research
- 2015 Health services research
- 2015 Medical care
- 2015 International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society
- 2015
- 2015 Journal of rehabilitation research and development
- 2015 PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation
- 2015 PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation
- 2015 Medical care
- 2014 Journal of rehabilitation research and development
- 2014 Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
- 2014 Journal of Geographic Information System
- 2013 PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation
- 2013 COPD
- 2013 American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation
- 2013 BMC geriatrics
- 2013 Journal of rehabilitation research and development
- 2012 Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
- 2012 Medical care
- 2011 Urologic Oncology-Seminars and Original Investigations
- 2011 American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation
- 2010 Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- 2010 Medical care
- 2010 Journal of Urology
- 2010 Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
- 2010 Journal of rehabilitation research and development
- 2009 The American journal of hospice & palliative care
- 2009
- 2009
- 2009 Medical care
- 2009 Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
- 2008 Health services research
- 2008 Health services research
- 2008 Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
- 2008 Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
- 2008 Health services research
- 2008 Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
- 2008 Health services research
- 2007 Health care management science
- 2007 Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
- 2007 Liver Transplantation
- 2007 Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy
- 2007 Stroke
- 2007
- 2007 Journal of telemedicine and telecare
- 2006 Journal of Adolescent Health
- 2006 Inquiry-the Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing
- 2006 The American journal of managed care
- 2006 Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
- 2006 Transplantation proceedings
- 2006 Journal of rehabilitation research and development
- 2005 Stroke
- 2005 The Journal of ambulatory care management
- 2004 International journal of geriatric psychiatry
- 2002 Research in nursing & health
- 2002 Health care financing review
- 2002 Journal of rehabilitation research and development
- 2001 Health care financing review
- 2001
- 2000 Pharmacotherapy
- 2000
- 1998 Nursing outlook
- 1998 Social science & medicine (1982)
- 1998 Medical care
- 1997 Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- 1996 Hospital & health services administration
- 1995
- 1995 Health care financing review
- 1995 Evaluation & the health professions
- 1995 The Gerontologist
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- 1994 Journal of Rural Health
- 1993 Health Care Management Review
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- 1993 Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
- 1988 Health services research
- 1988 Journal of medical systems
- 1987 Medical care
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Jun 2019
ACTIVE
OR-DRPD-ROF2019: Early Administration of Steroids in the Ambulance Setting: An Observational Design TrialUF RESEARCH · Other
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Dec 2016
ACTIVE
MED180 – MMA (Managed Medical Assistance)AGCY FOR HLTH CARE ADMN · Principal Investigator
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Sep 2016
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Sep 2020
The Child Health Quality (CHeQ) Partnership ProgramAGCY HEALTHCARE RES AND QUALITY · Co-Investigator
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Sep 2016
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Dec 2017
Vogel IPA – RVCPUS DEPT OF VET AFF GAINESVILLE MED CTR · Principal Investigator
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Sep 2016
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Jul 2018
Vogel IPA – CREST RESCUEUS DEPT OF VET AFF GAINESVILLE MED CTR · Principal Investigator

Alyson G Young Ph.D.
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PO Box 100177
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
- Physical Address:
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2199 MOWRY RD RM 141
GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Dr. Young is a biocultural anthropologist with a background in global health and a faculty member in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) and the Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP). Her research is grounded in social and political epidemiology, focusing on the social determinants of disparities in environmental health and maternal and child health.
Before Joining HOBI, Dr. Young spent over 10 years working on health and nutrition research among underserved pastoral and rural communities in Africa. As a research scientist in HOBI, Dr. Young applies her expertise in social epidemiology and mixed-methods research to overseeing evaluation projects for the external quality review organization (EQRO) for Texas Medicaid and CHIP.
- Environmental Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Health disparities and vulnerable populations
- Maternal and Child Health
- Social Epidemiology
- 2021 One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- 2020 Antibiotics
- 2017 The Pan African medical journal
- 2016 Ecology of food and nutrition
- 2013 Global public health
- 2012 Ecology of food and nutrition
- 2012 American Journal of Human Biology
- 2009 American Journal of Human Biology
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2008
Ph.D.University of Arizona
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1999
M.A.Ohio State University
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1997
B.A.Ohios State University
Adjunct Faculty
Michelle Cardel, PhD, MS, RD
Adjunct Professor
Associate Director, Center for Integrative Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease
Phone: 352-273-8811
Email: mcardel@ufl.edu

Emeritus Faculty
Jonathan J Shuster
Jonathan Shuster is a professor emeritus in the College of Medicine, Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, and Director of Research Design and Analysis Program, University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
He has been on the University of Florida faculty since 1969. Between 1980 and 2000, he served as the founding Group Statistician for the Pediatric Oncology Group, one of the cooperative clinical trials groups funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has been PI or Co-PI on over $30 million in federal grants. He is a member of the Cardiovascular and Sleep Epidemiology Study Section for the NIH, his fifth term on an NIH study section. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Sequential Analysis. In past years, he has served as Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association and on the Editorial Board of Blood.
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1969
Ph.D., Math-StatisticsMcGill University
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1967
M.S., Math-StatisticsMcGill University
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1964
B.S., ChemistryMcGill University
Alexander C Wagenaar
Dr. Wagenaar is Professor Emeritus of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida College of Medicine. His second book, Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods (with Scott Burris of Temple University School of Law), was published by Wiley in 2013. In addition, he has published 200 scientific articles on social and behavioral epidemiology, public health policy, legal evaluations, community intervention trials, alcohol and tobacco studies, traffic safety, injury control, and, most recently, effects of family economic security policies on infant and child health outcomes.
In 1987, Professor Wagenaar received the Exceptional Leadership Award from the American Public Health Association. In 1999, he received the Jellinek Award for lifetime achievement in research on alcohol. In 2001 he received the Innovator’s Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and in 2004 was named by the Institute for Scientific Information as a Highly Cited Researcher, an honor limited to less than one-half of one percent of published scientists worldwide. Other scientists have cited his journal articles more than 10,000 times. In 2009 he received the Prevention Science Award and in 2016 the Nan Tobler Award, both from the Society for Prevention Research, in recognition of his three decades of investigating and advancing the methods and outcomes of prevention research.
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1980
Ph.D., Health Behavior and Health EducationUniversity of Michigan
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1978
M.S.W., Program Evaluation and ResearchUniversity of Michigan
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1977
B.A., SociologyCalvin College