The National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit has selected Chris Delcher, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, for a panel discussion at the summit on March 28-31 in Atlanta, Georgia. The annual summit is the largest national meeting of professionals impacted by prescription…
An article published in The Journal of Nutrition featured results from a research team led by Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, was picked up in August by Medical News Today, which has an average of 16 million page…
In an article by Healthday, Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, provided expert commentary on recent findings about dieters replacing saturated fat with high-quality carbohydrates and polyunsaturated fats. Cardel was consulted to contribute to the article, “Dieters: Don’t Replace Saturated…
Since her arrival in August, Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, has made three guest appearances on television stations in Denver, Colorado, and Orlando, Florida. The first appearance was made at Channel 9 News in Denver, where she contributed regularly to…
Kelli Komro, Ph.D., former associate director of the Institute for Child Health Policy at UF, and other members of her research team from the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy discussed preliminary results of their five-year, NIH-funded community-based trial, which aims to reduce underage alcohol use in rural Oklahoma…
Deina Bossa, a current M.D. candidate and former undergraduate participant in the University Scholars Program with the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, was published in the Spring 2015 issue of the University of Florida’s Journal of Undergraduate Research. Her paper, “Explaining State Variation in Medicaid Expenditures,” discusses the…
Heather Morris, Ph.D., assistant research scientist in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, has been invited to give an oral presentation, entitled “Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Collaborative Goal Setting in the Care of the Patients with Diabetes,” at the American Public Health Association’s annual…
Ramzi G. Salloum, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, was the lead author on a paper, “Cigarette price and other factors associated with brand loyalty in Zambia,” published by Tobacco Control in a supplement on the Economics of Tobacco Control in July 2015.
A statewide partnership among the University of Florida, University of Miami, Florida State University, health care systems, health plans, providers and patients was approved for a three-year, $7.9 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, to support patient-centered health care research throughout Florida…
Are you planning on ramping up your exercise regimen this summer? There may not be an app for that — at least not a reliable one.
