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…
Team Basal Gangstas (Janelle Letzen, Kelsey Thomas, Paul Mangal, Jason Gravano, Loren Hizel) closely edged out two other teams to become the winners of the 2nd annual NeurOlympics, a student organized competition that tests neural knowledge. The event was sponsored by the UF Association of Neuropsychological Students in Training (ANST)…
Loren Hizel – a second year graduate student in Dr. Catherine Price’s laboratory – received a well-earned award: Florida Society of Neurology Platform Research Award. From 64 submissions, his research presentation was one of 6 chosen for this award. The conference was held in Orlando, Florida this past weekend (September…
CHP graduate student, Aliyah Snyder, was recently awarded a CTSI Clinical Research Pilot Grant. This will fund her dissertation research, which will also involve a parallel preclinical (animal) exercise intervention in collaboration with Floyd Thompson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Career Scientist,…
Congratulations 2014 CHP Graduates The August 8, 2014 University of Florida Doctoral Commencement was a big day for the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. The Ph.D. degree was conferred on fourteen of our trainees! We congratulate our graduates. The list the follows includes a little information…
Thank you and contratulations to the CHP graduate student team who volunteered at the Craniofacial camp this past weekend. Way to represent!…
Congratulations to Bridget Armstrong, M.S., who was the recipient of one of two Society of Pediatric Psychology (APA Division 54) Diversity Research Awards for her paper presentation titled, “Park Density Moderates Weight Loss Intervention Maintenance in Obese Rural Youth” at the APA conference this past week. Her paper was…
UF Health Vitality Mind is a collaborative program between The Village in Gainesville, FL and the University of Florida is to explore strategies to help older adults maintain and improve their brain health and quality of life. Directed by Drs. Dawn Bowers and Michael Marsiske, of Clinical and Health Psychology,…
