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Last week, the graduating UF MHA Class of 2023 participated in the first Hooding and Awards Ceremony for the UF MHA program. Hoods were bestowed by Dr. R. Paul Duncan, Professor Emeritus, from the Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy, and UF MHA alum Lonn McDowell, Vice Chair and Director of Administration for the UF Department of Surgery, to signify the successful completion of the Master of Health Administration program.

The Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy (HSRMP) recently concluded its Spring Scholar Speaker Series on Friday, April 21st, with a presentation by Dr. Aaron C. Spaulding, a Health Services Researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Aaron C. Spaulding, PhDHealth Services Researcher…

Three UF MHA Class of 2024 students, Abigail Lamm (Captain), Brady Alexander, and Carla Dominguez-Baez, competed against 21 schools at the Ohio State University First-Year Health Administration Case Competition on April 14, 2023.

One University of Florida undergraduate health sciences major participated in a pilot spring break research experience which merged the use of artificial intelligence, computational pathology and cell biology, and health services research.

Nine UF MHA students recently attended the 2023 ACHE Congress on Healthcare Leadership at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, Illinois, with support from the North Florida ACHE Chapter this last March. The 2023 ACHE Congress gathered over 5,000 attendees, including healthcare professionals from the nation’s…

Indigenous populations, including people of American Indian and Alaska Native origin, are underrepresented in clinical trials. Researchers led by Arch Mainous III, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions department of health services research, management and policy, collaborated to modify the “trust triangle” model used in clinical trial recruitment and expanded it to a new model called “The Trust Circle.”

The University of Florida has been awarded $3.6 million of a $23.5 million multicenter grant for a four-year data-generation project that is unprecedented in its scope, aimed at building an infrastructure for artificial intelligence in critical care and advancing artificial intelligence in ways that improve patients’ ability to recover from life-threatening illnesses.

Despite increasing health care demands from a large aging population, the number of family physicians who have received and maintained certification in geriatric medicine dropped significantly between 1988 and 2019, a new University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions study finds. The findings appear in the journal Family Medicine.

UF Health Cancer Center researchers found that Black and Hispanic adults had less knowledge and were less likely to undergo cancer genetic testing than white adults. This study was led by Dr. Young-Rock Hong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy.

A.J. Dunn, UF MHA Class of 2002 UF MHA alum, AJ Dunn, has recently been elected to join the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees as of February 17, 2023. The news came following the quarterly meeting this past February, when Dunn and another colleague, Jed Davis,…