People Group Archives: Big Data

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 […]

Associate Professor Rebecca Koszalinski investigates the relationships between air, water, the environment, and health outcomes and leads the interdisciplinary Human Health Outcomes of Exposure to Environmental Toxins Lab at UCF’s College of Nursing. Her harmful algal bloom research seeks to evaluate significant health care implications of potential toxin exposures. She is currently the primary investigator […]

As a critical care- and case management-trained registered nurse, a military veteran and dependent, and a food pantry volunteer, Jennifer M. 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 […]

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 […]

Hyojung Kim is a lecturer teaching nutrition at UCF’s College of Nursing. Her research interests lie in nutritional epidemiology, primarily focusing on the relationship between polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamin B6, and inflammation-related diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases and liver diseases, using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. She also conducts research on the effects […]

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 research focused on physical activity support, promotion and habit formation to improve health and patient outcomes. Davis is particularly […]

Dr. Brian Peach is an Associate Professor in the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Nursing, where he teaches courses in critical care, acute adult care, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and research. He also mentors PhD students in research and Doctor of Nursing Practice students in quality improvement, is one of three advisors to UCF Orlando’s […]

Health economist and health outcomes researcher Boon Peng Ng is an associate professor at UCF’s College of Nursing and UCF’s College of Medicine, and is a member of the UCF Disability, Aging and Technology Faculty Research Cluster. Prior to his appointment at UCF, he was a Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness fellow at the Centers […]

Nurse/patient outcomes and organizational factors; Partners with nurse researchers and clinicians in acute care settings to implement best practices based on evidence; Big Data.