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Fellows in pediatric cancer to benefit from…

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A successful communication skills training program about clinical trials is expanding to cover pediatric cancer. The workshop trains medical oncology…

A boy in his hospital room, with a face of anger and determination, wearing red boxing gloves and a headscarf, ready to win the fight against cancer and any disease challenge.

Shenkman honored as UF Distinguished Professor

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Dr. Elizabeth “Betsy” Shenkman, Ph.D., has earned the highest honor for a faculty member at the University of Florida: Distinguished Professor…

Elizabeth Shenkman, PhD, in pale blue suit stands behind a white desk with hands on computer keyboard.

News In Brief

  1. Study links joint pain supplement to accelerating dementia
  2. Daughter and mother expose neglect of women’s pain as co-researchers
  3. Florida officials unveil $4.2M in Alzheimer’s research grants
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Upcoming Events

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  6. Jan 20

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  8. Mar 17

  9. Apr 21

  10. May 19

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Design Studio

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Design Studio gatherings help researchers to refine their proposals.

Todd Manini presented a pending grant proposal on aging research at our department’s second Design Studio, held March 20 in the top floor conference room of Malachowsky Hall.
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Big Data

Florida’s red tide events tied to illness

Analyzing eight years of data from Florida’s Gulf Coast, researchers found clear patterns linking red tide blooms to spikes in respiratory and stomach problems. The study is the first to move beyond association and provide evidence of causation between red tide exposure and illness.

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HOBI Presentations

Conferences and Meetings

Research is meant to be shared. Visit our list of conferences to see where some of our researchers have been presenting their work.

Professors and students mingled during the poster session.

HOBI Seminars

HOBI Seminars are presentations by visiting faculty, guest speakers, faculty candidates and graduate students.

For recent and upcoming HOBI Grand Rounds speakers, please visit the HOBI Grand Rounds web page.

2025

  • June 3 – Martin Wegman, MD, PhD, HOBI Guest Speaker presenting “Informing Regulatory Policy through Quasi-Experimental Research”
  • March 12 – Pengyue Zheng, PhD, HOBI Guest Speaker presenting “Identifying drug-host interactions from real-world data.”

2023

  • June 29 – Gina T. Eubanks, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Patient and Provider Characteristics Associated with Guideline-Concordant Metabolic Screening and Monitoring Among Adults Prescribed a Second-Generation Antipsychotic”
  • May 24 – Xinsong Du, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Reproducible Computational Workflow for Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Data Processing”

2022

  • May 26 – Tianyao Huo, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Examination of Disparities in Pediatric Lipid Screening and Management in Florida Medicaid”
  • May 24 – Satish E. Viswanath, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, “Computational Imaging for Precision Medicine: A quest for generalizable AI models”
  • April 12 – Rui Yin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, “Machine learning modeling to facilitate the precaution and diagnosis of diseases”
  • March 31 – Richard Moffitt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, “Building the National COVID Cohort Collaborative: Investigating Acute and Long-term Outcomes of COVID-19”
  • March 29 – Wei Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, “Computational Frameworks for Multi-omics Data Integration to Improve Disease Outcome Prediction”
  • March 1 – Matthew Ruppert, HOBI graduate student master’s thesis defense, “Optimization of Inpatient Level of Care Through Multi-Task Learning”

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The Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) shares faculty news and research, including press releases, upcoming events, announcements and media coverage. If you are a member of the media, please contact Jim Harper, Marketing Manager, at (352) 627-9070 or via email, harperfish@ufl.edu.