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Ken Cochran (DSc, 2015), CEO of Opelousas General Health System and a UAB CHOT Industry Partner, also attended the IAB Meeting.
Ken Cochran (DSc, 2015), CEO of Opelousas General Health System and a UAB CHOT Industry Partner, also attended the IAB Meeting.

Robert Weech-Maldonado, PhD students Neeraj Puro and Reena Joseph, and postdoctoral fellow, Ganisher Davlyatov (PhD, 2018), presented updates of our current research projects at the NSF Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT) 2018 Fall Industry Advisory Board (IAB) meeting in McLean, Virginia.

The students provided an oral presentation titled “Using Socioeconomic and Sociodemographic variables in the Electronic Health Record to Predict Risk of Repeated Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Use” and three posters:

  • Use of Technology in the Management of Obesity: A Literature Review
  • Socio-Demographic Predictors of Hospital Readmissions in Individuals with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
  • Identifying Predictors of Hospital Acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection