Dr. David Fedele won the 2016 Research Mentor Award. Mallory Netz won the Geoffrey Clark-Ryan Memorial Award for Excellence in Pediatric Psychology Research. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Fedele and Mallory for their impressive work and outstanding achievements.
Three new graduate students have started their coursework in pediatric psychology in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology.
Casey Lawless Casey Lawless, a fourth year graduate student in the department, was recently awarded a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Student Traineeship Grant in the amount of $1,500 to fund her dissertation study evaluating the longitudinal impact of sleep on disease outcomes and health-related quality of life…
Kendra Krietsch, a fourth year student, was awarded the UF Health Shands Auxiliary Grant in the amount of $1200. Please join us in congratulating her on this outstanding achievement!…
Congratulations to Mallory Netz, Sarah Stromberg, Casey Lawless, and Kendra Krietsch who all won outstanding poster awards at the 2016 Society for Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 14 – 16.
UF’s AIM2ACT project uses mobile health technology that researchers hope will help adolescents and their parents or caregivers identify asthma management goals, develop behavioral strategies to meet those goals and strengthen communication skills between kids and parents. The study targets adolescents with asthma between the ages of 12 and 15…
for the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference. Each year the Society of Pediatric Psychology (Division 54 of the American Psychological Association) awards a select number of competitive travel grants to graduate students based on the merit of their submitted research to be presented at the…
Each year the Society of Pediatric Psychology (Division 54 of APA) awards student grants in three categories
This study is led by Dr. David Fedele (PI) and Dr. David Janicke (Co-I) and is funded by a grant from the American Lung Association. The aims of this study are to develop and pilot test the Childhood Health and Asthma Management Program (CHAMP), a behavioral family-based lifestyle intervention…
This study is led by multiple PIs Drs. David Janicke and Dr. Christina McCrae. Childhood obesity represents a major threat to public health. Sleep disturbance represents a significant comorbidity for overweight and obese (OV/OB) youth (ages 6-12) potentially contributing to a variety of negative consequences (lower quality…
