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
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 SrivastavaUCLA
 
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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