UF Health Researchers Receive NIH R01 Grant To Develop Social Risk Management Tool for People Living With Dementia

A team of University of Florida Health researchers aims to reduce health inequities faced by people living with dementia by using artificial intelligence and electronic health records to develop a machine learning-based social risk management platform.

The development of iSMART, or Intelligent Social Risk Management in Alzheimer’s disease/Alzheimer’s disease-related dementia Patients, is led by principal investigators Serena Jingchuan Guo, M.D. Ph.D., an assistant professor of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy in the UF College of Pharmacy; Jiang Bian, Ph.D., a professor and division director of biomedical informatics in the UF College of Medicine Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and chief data scientist/chief research information officer at UF Health; and Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., a professor and director of the Division of Implementation Science and Health Interventions in the UF College of Medicine. The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging awarded the team $3 million for this R01 project.

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