Category: Award

Dr. Rashidi is nominated as one of the three finalists for the National Institute of Health (NIH) Mitchel Max Award for Excellence in Research.

Original Article: Link Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D., areceived the HWCOE Excellence Award for Assistant Professors. This award is given to faculty who bring distinction to the university through their outstanding commitment to teaching, scholarship, service, research and creative activity.  The awards are focused on junior faculty and recognize excellence in research.

Main Article: Link Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received UF’s Excellence Award for Assistant Professors for 2019. The award is one of the university’s top honors for a junior faculty member. Rashidi is the director of the “Intelligent Health Lab” (i-Heal). Her area […]

The under-assessment of pain response is one of the primary barriers to the adequate treatment of pain in critically ill patients and is associated with many negative outcomes such as chronic pain after discharge, prolonged mechanical ventilation, longer ICU stay and increased mortality risk. Currently, existing nonverbal pain assessment scales are based on manual assessment […]

Congratulations to Anis for receiving a CVPR workshop travel award!

Congratulations to Natalie Evelev and Christie Nguyen, who were recently selected as Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering University Scholars for 2018-2019! The University Scholars Program introduces undergraduate students at the University of Florida to the exciting world of academic research. In the program, students work one-on-one with UF faculty on selected research projects. Through this initiative, students […]