Naomi Parker, Ph.D., an assistant scientist in the University of Florida’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, never expected her path from rural Southeast Georgia to lead to cancer communication research.
Students and faculty members in the Division of Implementation Science and Health Interventions will feature prominently in the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health.
HOBI graduate Dr. Jeremy Balch, M.D., Ph.D., a general-surgery resident and recent doctoral graduate in biomedical informatics, received the AI Research Dissertation Award for developing AI tools that improve surgical safety and efficiency.
“Our research team brought together diverse data sources on red tide and human health, allowing us to show, perhaps for the first time, that there appears to be a causal connection between these phenomena,” said Yi Guo, Ph.D.
An infusion of funding will support the University of Florida-Florida State University research hub.
Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine, researchers have found.
Professor Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., has been appointed as the Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI). In this new role, he will focus on supporting faculty and trainees around strategic funding opportunities for research.
Data science professional and certified cinephile Piyush Chaudhari has watched hundreds of films, but there’s one menacing movie with a special place in his head.
Please join me in congratulating Yi Guo, PhD, FAMIA, on being appointed as Division Chief for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science.
Working with oncologists, Carma Bylund, Ph.D., and study first author Naomi Parker, Ph.D., both from the UF Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, are piloting an “information prescription” to steer patients to sources of evidence-based information like the American Cancer Society.
