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Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics

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Yi Guo

Yi Guo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department: MD-HOP-GENERAL
Business Phone: (352) 294-5969
Business Email: yiguo@ufl.edu

About Yi Guo

Dr. Yi Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics in the College of Medicine at University of Florida. His research focuses on 1) reducing health disparities, 2) integrating heterogeneous data for health risk prediction, and 3) validating patient-reported outcome measures across subpopulations. With a unique combination of training in biostatistics, bioinformatics, and biochemistry, Dr. Guo has strong study design, data collection, and analytical skills. His expertise includes interventional study design, power and sample size analysis, analysis of multi-level and longitudinal designs, mediation and moderation analysis, and health risk, including risk of cardiovascular disease, prediction modeling. He has extensive experience collaborating with clinicians and biomedical researchers on study design, coordination, and analysis. In particular, he has extensive experience applying complex statistical models to analyze health outcomes.

Honors & Awards

Exemplary Teacher Award
2019 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Exceptional Reviewer
2019 · The Journal of Rural Health
UF Health Shands Rose Rivers Chrysalis Award for Evolving Research
2019 · UF Health
Travel Award
2016 · The South Big Data Hub
Program Fellowship
2004 · Ohio State University, Ohio State Biochemistry Program

Publications

2019
Association of Rates of Smoking During Pregnancy With Corporate Tobacco Sales Policies
JAMA pediatrics
2019
Low Rates of Patient-Reported Physician–Patient Discussion about Lung Cancer Screening among Current Smokers: Data from Health Information National Trends Survey
Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers
2019
Statistical thinking, machine learning
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
2019
ALOHA: developing an interactive graph-based visualization for dietary supplement knowledge graph through user-centered design
Bmc Medical Informatics and Decision Making
2019
Assessing the effect of data integration on predictive ability of cancer survival models
Health Informatics Journal
2019
Classification Tree Analysis of Factors Associated with Oral Cancer Exam
American Journal of Health Behavior
2018
New-Onset Diabetes Educator to Educate Children and Their Caregivers About Diabetes at the Time of Diagnosis: Usability Study.
JMIR Diabetes
2018
Dental Visits Mediate the Impact of Smoking on Oral Health
American Journal of Health Behavior
2018
Oc-2-Kb: Integrating Crowdsourcing Into An Obesity and Cancer Knowledge Base Curation System
2018
Metabolic Syndrome Severity Is Significantly Associated With Future Coronary Heart Disease in Type 2 Diabetes
2018
Assessing the Added Predictive Ability of a Metabolic Syndrome Severity Score in Predicting Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and Jackson Heart Study
Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
2018
Facilitation Or Hindrance: Physicians' Perception On Best Practice Alerts (Bpa) Usage In An Electronic Health Record System
Health Communication
2018
An Ontology-Guided Semantic Data Integration Framework to Support Integrative Data Analysis of Cancer Survival
2018
A 3-minute test of cardiorespiratory fitness for use in primary care clinics.
Plos One
2017
Comparing and Contrasting A Priori and A Posteriori Generalizability Assessment of Clinical Trials on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
AMIA … Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
2017
Exploring the Association Between Self-Reported Asthma Impact and Fitbit-Derived Sleep Quality and Physical Activity Measures in Adolescents
2017
Data Integration through Ontology-Based Data Access to Support Integrative Data Analysis: A Case Study of Cancer Survival.
Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

Grants

Jan 2020 ACTIVE
The provision of research and evaluation to determine the short and long-term human health impacts from harmful algal blooms (HABs)
FL DEPT OF HLTH · Principal Investigator
Jan 2020 ACTIVE
Extracting information from clinical narratives for Clinical Outcomes Research
PATIENT-CENTERED OUTCOMES RES INST ·
Jan 2020 ACTIVE
The benefits and harms of lung cancer screening in Florida
NATL INST OF HLTH NCI ·
Jan 2019 ACTIVE
Systematic Analysis of Clinical Study Generalizability Assessment Methods with Informatics
FL STATE UNIV ·
Apr 2018 – Oct 2018
Stakeholder Engagement and Multi-Risk Assessment in Dental Care Settings
UNIV OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM ·
Apr 2017 – Mar 2018
The National Dental PBRN FY18
UNIV OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM ·
Sep 2016 – Sep 2017
PCORI Health Systems Demonstration Project OCHIN
OCHIN ·
May 2015 – Feb 2016
Testing Additional Pediatric Quality Measures: Extraction of Permanent Molar and Treatment in Sealed Occlusal Surface
AMER DENTAL ASSO · Principal Investigator
Apr 2015 ACTIVE
Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
UF DIV OF SPONSORED RES MATCHING FUNDS · Project Manager
Jun 2014 – Dec 2017
OneFlorida Cancer Control Network
FL DEPT OF HLTH BIOMED RES PGM/J&E KING · Project Manager

Education

Ph.D.
2009 · Ohio State University
B.S.
2002 · Wuhan University

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 294-5969
Emails:
Business:
yiguo@ufl.edu