“This fellowship is a great opportunity to dive deeply into the needs of patients and providers and address their barriers to lung cancer screening.” The National Cancer Institute awarded a prestigious fellowship in July to dual M.D./Ph.D. student Miranda Reid to address lung cancer screening rates. Reid will be evaluating a new UF Health Cancer…| Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics » College of Medicine &raq...
Continuing unncessary screenings opens patients up to overtreatment, pain, anxiety.| news.ufl.edu
This new implementation research, titled Monitoring Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes During Cancer Treatment, will collect data from cancer patients over two years to investigate how the feedback system affects provider workload and patient behavior.| hobi.med.ufl.edu
As hundreds of hospitals in rural areas struggle to survive financially, a new program envisions a cost-effective way to ensure high-quality healthcare in these regions. The program, Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed and Integrated Medical Care (PARADIGM), has announced teams across the U.S. that will develop a smart, mobile fleet to deliver hospital-level healthcare…| hobi.med.ufl.edu
Women undergoing treatments following breast cancer surgery may face a significant risk of heart disease, according to new findings from a research team at the University of Florida. The study found that 20 percent of post-operative breast cancer patients experienced heart problems after receiving secondary treatments such as chemotherapy.| hobi.med.ufl.edu
With NCI designation, the UF Health Cancer Center is speeding toward a Moonshot goal.| cancer.ufl.edu
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Virtual patients with diseases that precisely mimic real-life patients are the next frontier in medicine. Such “digital twins” would allow…| ufhealth.org
A prestigious award of more than $850,000 from the National Cancer Institute will support Rahma Mkuu, PhD, as she builds her expertise in implementation science over the next five years while adressing cervical cancer screening disparities among women living with chronic conditions. Mkuu is an assistant professor and chronic disease researcher in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics within the University of Florida’s College of Medicine.| hobi.med.ufl.edu
Associate Professor Yi Guo in the UF College of Medicine’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics has started a four-year term to help the National Institutes of Health select the most promising grant applicants.| hobi.med.ufl.edu
Ramzi Salloum received conference grant from the National Cancer Institute to support global tobacco control implementation science at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting.| hobi.med.ufl.edu