A free and AI-enhanced continuing education program from the University of Florida’s College of Medicine aims to improve patient safety and quality of care by upgrading the skills of providers. The Quality and Patient Safety initiative provides innovative and timely courses for a range of health care providers. A few…
Jamie Hensley, MHCM, CCRP, navigated booths where community health educators shared cancer prevention tips and screening guidelines, and outreach workers stacked giveaway boxes full of vegetables and food staples.
University of Pennsylvania: Florida researchers collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania and other experts to understand how to reduce vaping among LGBTQ+ youth.
A team of University of Florida Health researchers aims to reduce health inequities faced by people living with dementia by using artificial intelligence and electronic health records to develop a machine learning-based social risk management platform.
The UF College of Medicine’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics had 13 poster and podium presentations accepted for the 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health.
The University of Florida Health Cancer Center co-hosted the inaugural Cancer Implementation Science Symposium over two days in June with Mount Kenya University, drawing researchers, faculty, policy advocates, and students.
The very ambitious Miranda Reid, a student physician-scientist in the College of Medicine’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) at the University of Florida, recently won one of this year’s four awards from the National Cancer Institute in support of implementation science.
Stephanie Staras, PhD, won the Principal Investigator award from the University of Florida Health Cancer Center for exceptional trial recruitment in 2023. She received the award in January at a ceremony at the Cade Museum in Gainesville, Florida. Staras is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics.
Dima Bteddini, a dedicated Ph.D. student concentrating in Health Outcomes and Implementation Sciences, has been awarded a Certificate of Outstanding Merit by the UF International Center and College of Medicine.
“Data envelopment analysis is a useful tool for assessing the relative efficiency of organizations that implement evidence-based programs in a way that is not possible with other analytic methods,” said Dr. Kathryn Pluta, University of Florida researcher and lead author.
