People Group Archives: Healthy Aging Lab

Carla Leinbach is a first-year PhD student in the College of Nursing. Leinbach plays a key role in connecting with research participants and developing partnerships across Florida. Leinbach’s research interests include motivation, cognitive reframing, and how neural-net-based artificial intelligence adoption impacts intrinsic motivation. Education

Dr. Janet Lopez is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Central Florida and a nurse scientist dedicated to promoting healthy aging and advancing health equity. Her work focuses on Hispanic/Latino older adults, caregivers, and veterans, with particular attention to rural and underserved communities. Dr. Lopez’s research centers on the […]

As a critical care- and case management-trained registered nurse, military veteran and dependent, and food pantry volunteer, Dr. Crook had the opportunity to work in multiple states in the U.S., where she identified not only the existence of widespread food and nutritional insecurity but a connection between nutrition, chronic inflammation and chronic disease. Her research […]

Associate Professor Rui Xie holds appointments in both the UCF College of Nursing and the UCF College of Sciences in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and is the Principal Investigator at the university’s Artificial Intelligence and Statistics for Health and Nursing Research Lab. His research encompasses the domains of statistics, biostatistics, machine learning […]

Dr. Jean Davis’ passion for community health promotion grew from listening to her aunt and her mother, both nurses, discuss and solve community health challenges when she was a child. Today the Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, Jonas Veterans Healthcare Scholar, and associate professor at the UCF College of Nursing channels her passion […]

Healthy aging; fall prevention in older adults; and aging education.

Improving care and treatment for patients with cancer.