Advancing Health Research

Martin Wegman, a pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, was awarded the Alice S. Hersh Student.

The OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium, a robust statewide research infrastructure led by HOP chair Elizabeth Shenkman, Ph.D., and David R. Nelson, M.D., was recently highlighted in Explore, a magazine produced by the UF Office of Research.

Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., R.D., was invited to participate in the University of California San Francisco’s Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) program.

Ryan Theis, Ph.D., is the lead author of the paper “Defining ‘Quality’ from the Patient’s Perspective: Findings from Focus Groups with Medicaid Beneficiaries and Implications for Public Reporting,” which has been accepted for publication in Health Expectations.

Dominick Lemas, Ph.D., presented “Gut Microbiota in Obesity: Reasons for Excitement and Reasons for Skepticism” at the American Society of Nutrition’s Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego.

Martin Wegman, an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awardee and M.D.-Ph.D. student at the University of Florida, will present an abstract at the 2016 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Boston on June 26-28. The AcademyHealth meeting is the leading forum for professionals in the field…

Betsy Shenkman, Ph.D., and François Modave, Ph.D., were among six UF faculty featured in “Calling Cancer into Question,” the cover story for the summer 2015 edition of Believe in a Cure.