Hop MD-PhD student Martin Wegman has been awarded a Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Travel Award to attend the Translational Science 2014 Meeting on April 9-11 in Washington, DC. Mr. Wegman is currently pursuing his PhD in the Department of Epidemiology and receives his primary mentorship from Dr. Elizabeth Shenkman, professor and chair…
Melissa Bright’s research, which centers on stressful experiences and their immediate effects on children’s health, has been featured on MSN Healthy Living. Dr. Bright recently presented her findings at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) in San Francisco. Huffington Post • June 3, 2014 U.S.
Dr. Komro and her colleagues at the UF Institute for Child Health Policy and Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health published an article entitled “Prevention Trial in the Cherokee Nation: Design of a Randomized Community Trial” in the March 2014 issue of Prevention Science. The paper centers on the continuing struggle with…
Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Bright, a Research Coordinator in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, for being selected as a Scholar for the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) 2014 Young Investigator Colloquium. The half-day Colloquium will take place on March 12, 2014 in San Francisco, CA. To learn more about…
HOP student research assistant Deina Bossa has been selected to present her research, “Explaining State Variation in Medicaid Expenditures,” at both the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) and the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC)! Deina’s abstract was selected from more than 4,000 submissions to NCUR. Her research…
Congratulations to Dr. Hajar Kadivar, who has been accepted into the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) Academy of Research Excellence (ARE) Master’s Program for Excellence in Human Subjects Research. Dr. Kadivar is a family physician and a faculty member of the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy and Community…
MD-PhD student Justin Rossi will be published in the September 2014 issue of Virtual Mentor, an American Medical Association (AMA) online ethics journal. The publication is a result of Rossi’s essay placing second in the John Conley Ethics Essay Contest for Medical Students. Congratulations, Mr. Rossi! Justin Rossi is an…
Dr. Hajar Kadivar’s article entitled “Guideline-Inconsistent Breast Cancer Screening for Women over 50: A Vignette-Based Survey” has been accepted for publication by the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM). The article will appear in the January, 2014 issue. Dr. Kadivar is a family physician and a faculty member of the…
Dr. Jill Herndon is co-presenting a webinar entitled “Advancing Quality and Program Effectiveness through Performance Measures” on November 13, 2013. The webinar is hosted by the Medicaid-CHIP State Dental Association and sponsored by the Dental Quality Alliance. For more information, please visit http://www.medicaiddental.org/calendar_day.asp?date=11/13/2013&event=57.
