Helping The Most Vulnerable

The Post, UF Health’s monthly newsletter, featured Betsy Shenkman, Ph.D., in the “Distinctions” section of the May edition, honoring her appointment as national co-chair of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s PCORnet Pediatrics Collaborative Research Group. The group will help the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute set national priorities for pediatric research…

While low socioeconomic status is known to negatively affect children with Type 1 Diabetes, little is known about the underlying causes of such disparities.

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.

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…