BMI News and Events

Upcoming Seminar: “Semantic Data Integration Using the Ontology of Cancer-Related Social-Ecological Variables”

Oct 9th, 2018

Upcoming Seminar: “Using a Systems Pharmacology Approach to Identify Novel Signatures Associated with Thiazide-Induced Changes in Uric Acid Levels”

Sep 28th, 2018

HOBI Faculty Members’ Article to be Included in 2018 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics

Sep 18th, 2018

Press Release on Florida Obesity Rates Reaches Audience of More Than 1.5 Million

Aug 6th, 2018

UF BMI Team Ranks Third in Clinical Natural Language Processing Challenge

Jun 25th, 2018

Maldonado-Molina Gives Two Presentations at Society for Prevention Research Meeting

May 30th, 2018

Mildred Maldonado-Molina, Ph.D., gave two presentations at the Society for Prevention Research 26th Annual Meeting held in Washington, D.C...

HOBI Faculty Receive UF Cancer Center Pilot Grant to Study Breast Cancer Patients’ Perceptions about Exercise

May 9th, 2018

Modave begins NCI training to launch mHealth app for colorectal cancer screening

Feb 26th, 2018

The Department of Health Outcomes & Policy Is Now the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics

Jan 26th, 2018

HOP Faculty Receive AMIA 2017 Distinguished Paper Award

Dec 19th, 2017

A paper co-authored by a team of OneFlorida researchers, including faculty in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy (HOP), was selected for the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) 2017 […]

HOP Faculty Member Receives DOJ Grant to Reduce Opioid-Related Risks in Florida

Dec 18th, 2017

Chris Delcher, Ph.D., has received a 3-year, $600,000 grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance in Washington, D.C., to map the opioid prescribing

HOP Faculty Member’s Paper Awarded ‘Best Natural Language Processing Article of the Year’ by IMIA

Dec 14th, 2017

BMI Team Welcomes New Faculty Member Yonghui Wu, Ph.D.

Sep 7th, 2017

The Department of Health Outcomes & Policy (HOP) welcomes Yonghui Wu, Ph.D., who joins the biomedical informatics (BMI) team as an assistant professor this semester. Wu comes to UF from […]

HOP Faculty Receives FACCA Grant to Improve Communications between Oncologists and Sexual and Gender Minorities

Aug 17th, 2017

HOP Researcher Works with CDC to Evaluate Haiti’s HIV/AIDS Programs

Aug 4th, 2017

HOP researcher Chris Delcher, Ph.D., is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to help the Haitian government and other […]

HOP Researcher Develops a Better Way to Gauge Heart Disease Risk in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome

Mar 8th, 2017

HOP Researcher Helps NICHD Develop Terminology for Pediatric Adverse Events

Feb 21st, 2017

Upcoming Seminar: “Unlocking Patient Information from Clinical Narratives.”

Feb 17th, 2017

HOP Faculty Receives UF CTSI Pilot Award to Develop Hypertension FACTS

Feb 8th, 2017

Upcoming Seminar: “Leveraging Natural Language Processing in Health Sciences.”

Feb 8th, 2017

Upcoming Seminar: “Linking and Enriching Lexicons: The Open Multilingual Wordnet”

Feb 3rd, 2017

In his talk, Dr. Bond will introduce the Open Multilingual Wordnet, a large lexical network of words grouped into concepts and linked by typed semantic relations.

HOP Faculty Showcase OneFlorida, New BMI Degree Programs at AMIA

Dec 19th, 2016

Several faculty and staff from the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy attended the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium in Chicago from Nov. 12-16.

UF Health Research Team Receives Funding to Improve Health Care for Children in Medicaid, CHIP

Dec 5th, 2016

Hogan Elected to American College of Medical Informatics

Oct 28th, 2016

William Hogan, M.D., was elected to membership in the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), a distinction that is considered one of the highest honors in the field of medical informatics.

New Biomedical Informatics Ph.D. Approved

Sep 21st, 2016

The Department of Health Outcomes & Policy’s Ph.D. in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Biomedical Informatics was approved by the UF Graduate School on September 15.   The multidisciplinary program features […]