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Upcoming Events

1. Jan 29

   1. Guest Speaker: Dr. Beverly Dede, Student Counseling and Development

      12:00pm to 1:00pm

2. Feb 12

   1. HOBI Grand Rounds | Emily S. Patterson, PhD

      12:00pm to 1:00pm

   2. Research Showcase 2025

      3:00pm to 7:30pm

3. Feb 19

   1. Design Studios

      12:00pm to 1:30pm

4. Feb 26

   1. HOBI Grand Rounds | Kai Zheng, PhD, FACMI

      12:00pm to 1:00pm

5. Mar 19

   1. Design Studios

      12:00pm to 1:30pm

6. Apr 16

   1. Design Studios

      12:00pm to 1:30pm

7. May 21

   1. Design Studios

      12:00pm to 1:30pm

8. Jun 18

   1. Design Studios

      12:00pm to 1:30pm

9. Jul 16

   1. Design Studios

      12:00pm to 1:30pm

Featured Event

HOBI Grand Rounds

January 15, 2025

Please join us in-person for HOBI Grand Rounds seminar “Community Engagement in Implementation Science: Examples from Nutrition and Physical Activity Promotion” presented by Taren Massey-Swindle, PhD. Lunch is provided first come, first served.

Hobi @ conferences

Artificial Intelligence

AI & Learning Health Systems

The first version of this conference was held in September 2023: the OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network and UF CTSI Conference: Transforming Patient-Centered Health Care Delivery through an AI-enabled Learning Health System.

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.

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.