April 16, 2024 | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Malachowsky Hall
This interactive event featured 5 research presentations, 2 “Shark Tank” participants, and 20 research posters.
The Itinerary
9 – 11 a.m. | Workshop: The Science of Communicating Your Science
The scientific evidence is piling up: people don’t act on information; they act on what they care most about. We learned about six core principles from behavioral, cognitive and social science that can help people care more about your work. Implementing these techniques can reduce misinformation and increase understanding and resonance. Students engaged in practical exercises and group discussions, and they saw how to apply these learnings to real-world scenarios.
- Facilitator: Ellen Nodine, M.Ed.
- Facilitator Bio: As the Director of Programs and Training at the Center for Public Interest Communications at the University of Florida, Ellen Nodine provides leadership for the strategic communications and science communications trainings and workshops offered by the Center as well as serving as a coach for the workshops. Ellen developed and directed the UF’s College of Journalism and Communications online master’s with a concentration in public interest communications, providing guidance for curriculum development and facilitating faculty and students in the program.
12 – 1 p.m. | Keynote: Leveraging Your Expertise for Action: Thought Leadership and Public Scholarship
In this session, we learned how to become an authority or a go-to resource in our field. Learning outcomes included how to:
- Understand thought-leadership concepts
- Learn the outside-in strategy
- Learn to leverage networks to enhance your initiatives
- Discover public scholarship opportunities
- Facilitator: Ann Searight Christiano, MPAP
- Facilitator Bio: Ann Searight Christiano is the founder and Director of the Center for Public Interest Communications and a clinical professor in the department of public relations at the University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communications. She developed the first ever curriculum in public interest communications. Through the annual frank gathering, she and her colleagues in the center connect practitioners and scholars who are already working in the field and nurture and share research that can advance this emerging academic discipline. Public Interest Communications uses science-driven strategic communications, human centered design, systems thinking and storytelling to advance positive social change. Ann completed a 10-year term as the inaugural Karel Chair in Public Interest Communications in May 2020.
1:15-2:30 p.m. | Research Presentations
These were 12 minute presentations by post-docs and grad students.
2:45-3:30 p.m. | Shark Tank Session
These were 7 minute presentations by post-docs and grad students.
Winner: Jeremy Balch, MD, presented “Computer Vision for Surgical Instrument Tray Optimization.”
3:30-4:30 p.m. | Poster Session
Winners for Biomedical Informatics
- Hongyu Chen presented “Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria Decomposition and Parsing with Large Language Models.”
- Nicole Hammer presented “Barriers to Accessible and Effective Colorectal Cancer Screening (CRCS): Patient and Provider Shared Decision-Making (SDM) Perspectives on Colonoscopies and Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FITs).”
Winners for Health Outcomes and Implementation Science
- Lauren Lavender presented “Exploring Medical Oncology Fellows’ Perspectives of a Cancer Clinical Trials (CCT) Communication Skills Workshop: A Qualitative Analysis.”
- Sara Tohme and Aman Mulugeta presented “Refinement of Patient Education Material of HPV Self-Collection Tests: Results from Focus Group Discussions with Women at High Risk of Developing Cervical Cancer.”
Presentations
- Jeremy Balch, MD: Computer Vision Optimization of Instrument Trays (Shark Tank)
- Claire Layton: Examining the Impact of Healthcare Shared Team Experience on In-Hospital Mortality of Heart Failure Patients Using EHR Note Metadata
- Tyler S. Nesbit, Ph.D.: Promoting a Healthy Communication Practice: A Communication Process Model for Dementia Family Caregivers
- Chang Wang: Fully Automated Measurement of Cross-Sectional Aortic Diameters on Computed Tomography Angiography
- Yanfei Wang, PhD: A real-world cohort study of immune-related adverse events in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors
- Shuang Yang, PhD: Adjusting Covariate Misclassification in Electronic Health Records-Based Machine Learning Prediction Models: A Statistical Framework
Posters
- Miad Alfaqih: Do EHRs Help or Hinder Coordination: Examining Facilitators and Barriers of the EHR to CRC Screening Process
- Sofia Anrecio: Anticipating the feasibility of mobile health smoking cessation implementation in primary care: A qualitative, multi-site study
- Harold Bishop: Implementation climate of mobile health smoking cessation interventions: A qualitative analysis of care team perspectives in a comparative effectiveness trial
- Dima Bteddini: Adapting a tobacco cessation intervention and implementation strategies into Lebanon’s primary healthcare settings: A mixed-methods study
- Hongyu Chen: Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria Decomposition and Parsing with Large Language Models
- Ziyi Chen: A Preliminary Study of Documenting Stigma, Social, and Behavioral Information in Clinical Notes among Patients with HIV
- Klea Gjoka: Health System Strategies to Improve the Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
- Onyekachi Ike-Okpe: Towards a Structured Classification of Immune-Related Adverse Events to Inform a Clinical Decision Support System for Early Recognition in Cancer Patients on Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
- Lauren K. Lavender: Exploring Medical Oncology Fellows’ Perspectives of a Cancer Clinical Trials (CCT) Communication Skills Workshop: A Qualitative Analysis
- Jialu Liang: scDeepAPA: a deep learning model for high-resolution PAS detection and regulatory analysis in single-cell transcriptomes
- Mengxian Lyu: A Preliminary Study of LoRA Experts for Personalized Clinical Summarization
- Naomi D. Parker: Developing an Online Information Prescription as a Scalable Approach to Decrease Exposure to Cancer Treatment Misconceptions
- Miranda Reid: Strategies described by NCI-designated Cancer Centers to promote leadership engagement and sustain funding of tobacco treatment programs
- Qing Wang: HECLIP: Histology-Enhanced Contrastive Learning for Imputation of Transcriptomics Profiles
- Bairu Zhao: Gaming Player Types and Game-Based Interventions in Adolescent Tobacco Prevention
4:30-5 p.m. Reception and Awards
For more information contact
Matt Mitterko
Assistant Director of Education, HOBI at mitterko@ufl.edu