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UF study examines patient treatment decisions for colorectal cancer

A new University of Florida study will take an in-depth look at the factors involved in treatment decisions made by people with colorectal cancer. The study is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the Bankhead-Coley Florida Cancer Research Program, administered through the Florida Department of Health, led by…

Agricultural Workers Sought for National Influenza Study

Agricultural workers age 18 years or older who work with swine, turkeys, geese or ducks may be eligible for enrollment in a University of Florida study of influenza and agricultural workers. The study will monitor agricultural workers and their household members for flu, paying particular attention to flu infections…

UF researchers go to Haiti to mitigate cholera threat

University of Florida public health researchers recently went back to Haiti to track the cholera outbreak and to distribute oral rehydration packets.  While taking samples to determine the source of the cholera bacterium, two UF faculty affiliated with the Emerging Pathogens Institute distributed 1,000 oral rehydration packets to…

Meenakshi Devidas

Meenakshi Devidas is the PI of the grant for the branch of the Children’s Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center (COG SDC) located at the University of Florida. The COG is a NCI sponsored pediatric clinical trials cooperative group with over 200 member research institutions in the US, Canada, Australia,…

Babette Brumback

Dr. Brumback’s recent methodological research investigates methods for causal inference with complex survey data. She has been particularly interested in methods for adjusting for unmeasured cluster-level confounding with complex sampling designs. This has led to the development of new methods stemming from conditional likelihood techniques, generalized linear mixed models, and…

Arlene Naranjo

Dr. Arlene Naranjo is a Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Florida. As a senior statistician in the areas of neuroblastoma and renal tumors with the Children’s Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center, Dr. Naranjo is responsible for designing future studies, performing sample size and power calculations,…

Shelley Heaton

Dr. Heaton’s research interests include Pediatric Neuropsychology, Child and Adult Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Attention and Memory Processes. Full CV…

David Janicke

Dr. Janicke’s research efforts have focused on building a successful program of research related to pediatric obesity, including a specific emphasis on translation and dissemination of treatments for pediatric obesity, psychosocial adjustment of overweight and obese youth, family and environmental factors impacting healthy and unhealthy weight loss behaviors, and health…

Michael Marsiske

Dr. Marsiske’s research investigates the impact of cognitive aging on adults’ everyday functioning, with a particular emphasis on the development and evaluation of interventions (cognitive training, mental and physical exercise) to maintain and improve late life cognition. Dr. Marsiske is also strongly connected with the University of Florida’s Institute on…

Deidre Pereira

The long range goal of Dr. Pereira’s research program is to improve health outcomes and promote the well-being of individuals with chronic and/or life-limiting illnesses, with an emphasis on malignancies that occur commonly or exclusively among women. Grounded in the biobehavioral model of tumor growth and development, her research seeks…