Clinical and Health Psychology employees Douglas Martin and Lori Waxenberg have been named UF Superior Accomplishment award winners in the Health Science Center division. They will be honored at an awards banquet March 18. The award program recognizes employees who contribute outstanding service, efficiency and/or economy to the university, or…
Congratulations to Dr. Whitehead who has been selected as a UF CTS K Scholar. The CTS K Scholar Multidisciplinary Program is a highly competitive research training and funding opportunity for junior faculty at UF to foster a career in clinical/ translational research. Didactic coursework, mentored research and multidisciplinary teamwork…
We are pleased to announce that an article co-authored by Dr. David Janicke, Ph.D. has been awarded the 2014 Diane Willis Award. The article is titled Recommendations for training in pediatric psychology: Defining core competencies across training levels. The full citation is as follows: Palermo, T.M., Janicke, D.M., McQuaid, E.L., Mullins,…
The 2014 Annual Fall Graduate Student Research Symposium was held on November 7, 2014. During the symposium, the 2013 graduate cohort presented the results of their First Year Projects to a full audience of faculty, fellow students, and guests. These projects will become the students’ M.S. theses, to be formally…
Asthma can be particularly problematic for children who are overweight, leading to increased medication use, more emergency room visits and lower quality of life compared with their peers with asthma who are not overweight. University of Florida Health researchers are now studying whether weight loss can improve lung function…
Congratulations to Dr. Rozensky, recipient of the 2014 Nathan Perry, Jr. Career Service to Health Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Health Psychology. The award is for “significant contributions for the advancement of health psychology as a field, nationally or internationally” and will be presented at the…
Dr. Jared Tanner, a post doctoral research fellow in CHP, was selected to present his [...]
Amanda Balkhi, M.S., a third year doctoral student in CHP, and other researchers are evaluating the use of internet forums by parents of diabetic children.
Dr. John Lednicky gave a talk entitled “Collection of viable airborne viruses using air samplers” for the Biomedical Education Seminar Series of the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, on 7 February 2014. He discussed the concept of aeroplankton, technical difficulties regarding air sampling for viable airborne…
Dr. Joseph Bisesi, a post-doc in Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood’s lab recently published a manuscript in Environmental Science and Technology. Dr. Bisesi’s paper describes the toxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in the intestinal tract of fish as well as a new method for tracking and quantifying these materials in aquatic…
