People Group Archives: EMBRACE Lab

Carla Leinbach is a first-year PhD student in the College of Nursing. As Director of Community Partnerships and Participant Relations for the Enhancing Mind-body Resilience for Aging with Cultural Equity (EMBRACE) Lab, she connects with participants and develops partnerships across Florida. Leinbach’s research interests include motivation, cognitive reframing, and how neural-net-based artificial intelligence adoption impacts […]

Janet Lopez is a nurse scientist who is dedicated to addressing health inequities through a comprehensive approach. She focuses on developing innovative strategies to improve health outcomes for underserved communities. After completing her post-doctoral fellowship at the Veterans Rural Health Resource Center (VRHRC) in Gainesville, Florida, she concentrated on promoting health equity among rural Veterans […]

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 […]

Ayse Malatyali is a Jonas Scholar with a priority research area of cognitive aging. She focuses her research primarily on biological, behavioral and social risk factors of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and falls among underserved older adults. Her additional areas of research include healthcare utilization, palliative care and advanced care planning for individuals […]

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

Improving care and treatment for patients with cancer.