People Group Archives: Biomarkers

Dr. Piotr Lagod is a postdoctoral scholar in the Human Health Outcomes of Exposure to Environmental Toxins Lab (HHOT). His current research focuses on the negative health outcomes associated with harmful algal blooms (HABs), specifically blue-green algae and red tide (Karenia brevis). Over the past decade, the increasing frequency, severity, and duration of HABs have […]

Sergi Garcia-Retortillo is an assistant professor at UCF’s College of Nursing with expertise in exercise physiology, electrophysiology, exercise testing, and physiological network analysis. His research centers on the emerging field of network physiology, which seeks to understand how physiological systems interact as an integrated network to sustain function. He investigates the fundamental principles regulating interactions […]

Kworweinski Lafontant is an NSCA-certified strength coach and an ACSM-certified exercise physiologist and personal trainer from Orlando, Florida. As a master’s student at the University of South Florida, he served as research coordinator for the Physique & Performance Enhancement Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Bill Campbell. Lafontant is currently completing his PhD in Kinesiology […]

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 […]

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 […]

Carmen Giurgescu is a UCF Pegasus Professor, the Chatlos Foundation Endowed Chair and associate dean of research at UCF’s College of Nursing, which is named among the nation’s top nursing schools for NIH funding. Giurgescu is a world-renowned maternal health researcher who focuses her efforts on reducing preterm births to improve outcomes for new mothers […]

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 […]

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

Critical care; Verification of feeding tube placement; CORTRAK electromagnetic placement device; Evidence-based practice; Tradition-based practices/low-value care; De-implementation