Monica Lino

August 24, 2026 by
Monica Lino is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida College of Nursing. Lino has more than 20 years of experience with a strong background in nursing education, research methodology and innovative teaching strategies. Lino has focused her scholarly work and research on simulation-based education, immersive technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and the integration […]

Danielle Sterner

June 26, 2026 by
Danielle Sterner is a postdoctoral scholar at UCF’s College of Nursing, working with Jean Davis on a behavioral clinical research program focused on improving physical activity and health outcomes during pregnancy. In her role, Sterner supports clinical trial operations, wearable device data management, participant engagement, data analysis, manuscript preparation and grant development. Sterner is passionate about bridging science, healthcare and executing […]

Megha Parikh

January 27, 2026 by
Megha Parikh is a postdoctoral scholar at the Healthy Aging Lab in UCF’s College of Nursing. Her research focuses on machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision with applications in the segmentation and recognition of handwritten conjuncts in the low-resource Gujarati language. She has also applied machine learning techniques to healthcare-related problems, including medical image […]

Ania L. Lipat

January 22, 2026 by
Ania Lipat is a postdoctoral scholar in the Healthy Aging Lab at UCF’s College of Nursing. Throughout her educational training, she has gained extensive experience in gait analysis with a specific focus on aging and chronic pain populations. During her studies, she has helped develop and assess novel quantitative gait technologies for preclinical models of […]

Michael Joseph Dino

January 14, 2025 by
Nurse, researcher and educator Michael Joseph “MJ” Dino specializes in health informatics, gerotechnology, educational technologies, robotics, human-computer interaction (HCI), extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI), and academic integrity. He is part of the Delphi Group, which pioneered the new definition of Nursing and Nurses at the International Council of Nurses, and past president of the […]

Frances Armstrong

January 25, 2024 by
Frances Armstrong, clinical assistant professor and graduate simulation coordinator at UCF’s College of Nursing, is a dual-certified adult-gerontology acute care and primary care nurse practitioner with a diverse clinical background including sleep medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. She continues to maintains a clinical practice in critical care medicine in addition to her academic appointments […]

Rui Xie

October 9, 2023 by
Associate Professor Rui Xie holds appointments in both UCF’s College of Nursing and College of Sciences, 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 and public health. His primary focus revolves around advancing statistical sketching and […]

Sotos G. Djiovanis

September 23, 2021 by
Lecturer and two-time alumnus Sotos G. Djiovanis has been in continuous clinical practice in Central Florida for more than a decade. He has routinely served as a clinical preceptor, education resource nurse, and member of hospital shared governance councils. His clinical expertise spans adult and geriatric populations in both acute care and home health settings. […]

Jean W. Davis

September 27, 2019 by
Associate Professor 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. Davis channels that passion into implementation science research using coaching, wearable technology and artificial intelligence (AI) for physical activity support, promotion and habit formation […]

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