Training the Next Generation

2016 mHealth
Institute Program

mHealth Training Institute

2016 mHealth Training Institute - Registration / Reception
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PT
Registration / Check-in

(Luskin Conference Center)

5:30 pm - 9:30 pm PT
Dinner Reception: Explorer Room, UCLA Luskin Conference Center

Hosted by the UCLA School of Engineering

Participant Self-Introductions (2 min lightening presentations + 1 min 2 truths and a lie)

2016 mHealth Training Institute - Day 1
8:00 am - 8:05 am PT
Welcome

Jayathi Murthy - UCLA
 

8:05 am - 8:15 am PT
Overview and Goals of mHealth Institute

Vivek Shetty - UCLA
 

8:15 am - 9:00 am PT
mHealth as a Behavior Change Tool

Donna Spruijt-Metz - USC
 

9:00 am - 9:45 am PT
Explanatory and Predictive Models for mHealth

Peter Pirolli - IBM
 

9:45 am - 10:00 am PT
Break
10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Team Discussions (Small Groups)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm PT
Human Computer Interaction: Design Strategies I

Gillian Hayes - UC-Irvine
 

1:45 pm - 2:30 pm PT
Human Computer Interaction -Design Strategies II (HF/HCI)

Pedja Klasnja - University of Michigan
 

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm PT
Break
2:45 pm - 4:30 pm PT
Team Discussions (Small Groups)
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Team Report-Backs (Small Groups)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PT
Dinner Reception Sponsored by UCLA Health
2016 mHealth Training Institute - Day 2
8:00 am - 8:45 am PT
Opening the Black Box of mHealth Interventions

William Riley - James Madison University
 

8:45 am - 9:15 am PT
mHealth Technologies in Health Care Settings

Steven Steinhubl - Scripps Research
 

9:15 am - 9:45 am PT
mHealth Technologies in Health Care Settings

Bonnie Zima - UCLA
 

9:45 am - 10:00 am PT
Break
10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Team Discussions (Small Groups)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm PT
Sensor Technologies: Sensors in the Age of P5 Medicine

Vivek Shetty - UCLA
 

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm PT
Point of Care Technologies for Limited Resource Settings

Aydogan Ozcan - UCLA
 

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm PT
Assessing Health Behaviors: Wearables

Santosh Kumar - University of Memphis
 

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm PT
Break
2:45 pm - 4:30 pm PT
Team Discussions (Small Groups)
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Team Report-Backs (Small Groups)
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PT
Group Dinner
2016 mHealth Training Institute - Day 3
8:00 am - 9:00 am PT
Methodology and Analytics: Experimental Design and Data Analysis Methods for mHealth Interventions

Inbal Nahum-Shani University of Michigan
 

9:00 am - 9:30 am PT
Using Behavioral Economics to Advance mHealth Interventions

Craig Fox - UCLA
 

9:30 am - 9:45 am PT
Break
9:45 am - 11:30 am PT
Team Discussions (Small Groups)
11:30 am - 12:00 pm PT
Voice Feature Extraction from Smartphones

Abeer Alwan - UCLA
 

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Special Lunch Lecture: Voice as a Conduit of Human Emotion

Michael Dean - UCLA
 

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm PT
Statistical Methodologies for mHealth

David Elashoff - UCLA
 

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PT
Big Data, Machine Learning & mHealth

Natasha Balac - UCSD
 

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm PT
Team Discussions (Small Groups)
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Team Report-Backs (Small Groups)
2016 mHealth Training Institute - Day 4
8:00 am - 8:30 am PT
mHealth Studies in Vulnerable Populations

Phillipe Bourgois UCLA
 

8:30 am - 9:00 am PT
Secure Collection of Sensitive mHealth Data

Mani Srivastava - UCLA
 

9:00 am - 9:30 am PT
Ethics in the Mobile Era - Tracking Privacy and Data Concerns

Tiffany Cvrkel UCLA
 

9:30 am - 9:45 am PT
Break
9:45 am - 12:00 pm PT
Team Discussions (Small Groups)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm PT
Developing and Productizing Sensor Technologies for Real-World Applications

Bill Kaiser - UCLA
 

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm PT
Mental Health Apps: Lessons from the Trenches

Julia Hoffman - VA / Stanford
 

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm PT
An Intellectual Property Primer for Faculty

Katherine Fibiger - University of Pennsylvania
 

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm PT
Break
2:45 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Small Group Wrap-ups
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm PT
Group Social Event
2016 mHealth Training Institute - Day 5
8:00 am - 8:20 am PT
Team 1

Capstone Presentation

8:20 am - 8:40 am PT
Team 2

Capstone Presentation

8:40 am - 9:00 am PT
Team 3

Capstone Presentation

9:00 am - 9:20 am PT
Team 4

Capstone Presentation

9:20 am - 9:40 am PT
Team 5

Capstone Presentation

9:40 am - 10:00 am PT
Break
10:00 am - 10:30 am PT
How to Engage a Technologist or Health Professional in mHealth

Donna Spruijt-Metz - USC
 

10:30 am - 11:00 am PT
Survive & Thrive in Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Vivek Shetty - UCLA
 

11:00 am - 11:30 am PT
Getting Recognition for Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Carole Goldberg - UCLA
 

11:30 am - 12:00 pm PT
Getting Funding for mHealth Projects

Richard Conroy - NIH, Office of Strategic Coordination
 

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Graduation Certificates / Closing Remarks
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