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Student Spotlight: Alexandra Lee
Wherever Alex Lee goes, success seems to follow. When the HOBI Ph.D. candidate attended the 2018 ObesityWeek conference in Nashville, Tennessee, last November, her abstract was selected as one of the Top 12 Early Career Abstracts of the conference. Later that month, Lee published her first first-author article, “…
Gurka Elected to Society for Pediatric Research
Matthew Gurka, Ph.D., was elected for membership in the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR), a professional organization dedicated to research that advances the health and well-being of children and youth worldwide. The SPR provides an international forum for presenting and disseminating innovative ideas and child health research. Academic researchers…
Statewide research consortium receives $7.9 million for research to improve patient outcomes
A statewide partnership among the University of Florida, University of Miami, Florida State University, health care systems, health plans, providers and patients was approved for a three-year, $7.9 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, to support patient-centered health care research throughout Florida and the…
Dr. Jill Herndon Appointed to Editorial Board of Medicare and Medicaid Research Review
Dr. Jill Herndon has been appointed to the editorial board of Medicare & Medicaid Research Review (MMRR), a peer-reviewed, online journal published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to disseminate high-quality and relevant research to a wide audience of Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance stakeholders. The journal…
Dr. I-Chan Huang Appointed as an Associate Editor for Quality of Life Research
Dr. I-Chan Huang has been appointed an Associate Editor for Quality of Life Research. This journal is an official journal of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) and a leading journal in the area of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) research. The 5-year…
Dr. Jill Herndon Invited to Present for NIH/NIDCR Survey Research Methods Series
The NIH/NIDCR has invited Dr. Jill Herndon to participate in its web-based Survey Research Methods Series, a collection of presentations by nationally-recognized experts on survey research design and analysis. Dr. Herndon’s presentation, Comparing and Linking Survey Data: Considerations for Working with Multiple Data Sources, can be viewed at…