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Three educators earn award for teaching excellence
Three instructors from the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics were honored by the College of Medicine with a 2025 Exemplary…
UF researchers present communication skills model…
While dementia and cancer caregivers need the same communication skill support, spouses also identified four communication skills that are distinctly…
Gators serving our community
The Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics never runs out of service initiative ideas to bring its community together, said Nicole…
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.
Fall 2024
Building digital twin tools to investigate environmental threats to health
A new five-year, $3 million research project funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences aims to create the digital dictionary and playbook to help technology replicate the way humans experience disease.
upcoming and recent EVENTs
College Calendar
Upcoming Events
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Dec 10
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HOBI Grand Rounds presents Liangyuan Hu, PhD
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Dec 17
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HOBI/CTSI Design Studios
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Jan 21
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HOBI/CTSI Design Studios
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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HOBI/CTSI Design Studio
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Jan 29
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Research Showcase 2026
3:00pm to 8:00pm
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Feb 10
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Feb 18
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HOBI/CTSI Design Studios
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Mar 18
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HOBI/CTSI Design Studios
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Apr 15
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HOBI/CTSI Design Studios
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Featured Event
HOBI/CTSI Design Studio
January 21 | Noon – 1 p.m.
Please join us for the next Design Studio in January 2026. These gatherings help researchers to refine their proposals.
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Conferences for Connections
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.
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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