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ICHP Fellow’s Article on Benefits of Fasting Featured in Several News Outlets
Martin Wegman, an ICHP fellow and M.D.-Ph.D. student in the College of Medicine and the College of Public Health and Health Professions, co-authored an article on the benefits of intermittent fasting that was featured in the journal Rejuvenation Research and picked up by a number of online…
Upcoming Seminar: “The Long Reach of Early Childhood: Biological and Environmental Influences”
Thursday, October 8 at 4:30-5:30 p.m. Gerson Hall Room 126
Submit a Poster Abstract: Highlighting Children’s Health Research and Collaboration Event
Poster abstracts are due Friday, October 23.
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…
Picture perfect: Researchers use photos to understand how diabetes affects kids
If a picture is worth a thousand words, UF Health Type 1 diabetes researchers and their colleagues have tapped into an encyclopedia, revealing new insights into how young people cope with the disease. The sophisticated scientific instrument? A camera.
The POST Cover Story: Health Risks in Hiding
Imagine if you could make the inivisible visible. What if, somehow, you could see the number of calories a child burns as she runs from a slide to a swing in her local playground — or the number of calories she never consumed due to the new…
ICHP Affiliate Faculty Member Speaks at Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting
Lindsay Thompson, M.D., M.S., associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and assistant director of clinical research in the Institute for Child Health Policy, spoke at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., on April 26. Her presentation was on the creation of…
UF Early Childhood Expert Named Zucker Professor in Center for Excellence
Maureen Conroy, Ph.D., an early childhood expert and professor in the University of Florida College of Education, has been named the Anita Zucker Professor in Early Childhood Studies. Conroy, who co-directs the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies at UF, is working…