Objectives
Established by the UF Senior Vice President for Health Affairs in March 2020 to address the novel coronavirus pandemic, the CTSI COVID-19 Task Force has the following objectives:
- Catalogue what the UF community is doing to directly address, or in direct response to, the COVID-19 pandemic in the areas of clinical and translational research, education and training, and community outreach and engagement.
- Identify and prioritize efforts where the CTSI can play a catalytic role either through funding, facilitative communications and networking, or CTSI directed initiatives.
- Amplify awareness of efforts and opportunities in the above outlined areas through a coordinated communication strategy with UF Health and University of Florida.
- Measure the outcomes and the impact of the CTSI-assisted efforts in COVID-related clinical and translational research, education and training, and community outreach and engagement.
COVID-19 Task Force Chair
TASK FORCE CHAIR
Duane Mitchell, MD, PhD
Director, UF CTSI | Assistant Vice President for Research, UF | Associate Dean for Translational Science and Clinical Research, UF College of Medicine | Co-Director, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy
Working Group Chairs
Laboratory research
Mark Atkinson, PhD
Director, UF Diabetes Institute | Professor, Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, UF College of Medicine
Laboratory research
Glen Morris, PhD
Director, Emerging Pathogens Institute | Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), UF College of Medicine
Clinical research
Mark Brantly, MD
Professor of Medicine | Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, UF College of Medicine
outcomes research
Lindsay Thompson, MD
Professor, Pediatrics & Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics | Medical Director, Pediatric Research Hub, Department of Pediatrics, UF College of Medicine
outcomes research
Matt Gurka, PhD
Professor,Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, UF College of Medicine | UF Associate Chair of Education
outcomes research
John Smulian, MD, MPH
B.L. Stalnacker Professor & Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UF College of Medicine | UF Shands Hospital
EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS
Wayne McCormack, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, UF College of Medicine
community outreach & engagement
Linda Cottler, PhD, MPH, FACE
Associate Dean for Research, UF College of Public Health & Health Professions | Dean’s Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UF College of Public Health & Health Professions | UF College of Medicine
data science & bmi
William Hogan, MD, MS
Director of Biomedical Informatics And Data Science, Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, UF College of Medicine | Director of Biomedical Informatics, UF CTSI | Director of Informatics, OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium
