Training the Next Generation

2020 mHealth
Institute Program

mHealth Training Institute

2020 mHealth Training Institute - Registration / Reception
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PT
Registration / Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PT
Dinner Reception / Participant Self-Introductions
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PT
Capstone Proejcts
2020 mHealth Training Institute - Day 1
8:00 am - 8:15 am PT
Welcome / Goals of mHTI
Vivek Shetty – UCLA
 
8:15 am - 9:05 am PT
Understanding Health Behaviors
Donna Spruijt-Metz – USC
 
9:05 am - 10:00 am PT
Changing Health Behaviors
Bonnie Spring – Northwestern
 
10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Capstone Projects
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm PT
Measuring the Human Condition
Vivek Shetty – UCLA
 
1:50 pm - 2:40 pm PT
From Sensed Data to Digital Biomarkers
Santosh Kumar – University of Memphis
 
2:40 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Capstone Projects
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PT
Networking Dinner
2020 mHealth Training Institute - Day 2
8:00 am - 10:00 am PT
Experimental Designs for Personalized Digital Behavioral Interventions
Inbal Nahum-Shani – University of Michigan
 
10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Capstone Projects
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PT
Machine Learning and Big Data for Digital Behavioral Interventions
Benjamin Marlin – UMass Amherst
 
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm PT
Agile Science: Behavior Change in the Real World
Eric Hekler – UCSD
 
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm PT
Capstone Projects
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Team Report-Backs on Capstone Projects
2020 mHealth Training Institute - Day 3
8:00 am - 8:45 am PT
Understanding and Engaging Vulnerable Populations in mHealth Studies
Vickie Mays – UCLA
 
8:45 am - 9:30 am PT
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of mHealth Research
Camille Nebeker – UCSD
 
9:30 am - 12:00 pm PT
Capstone Projects
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm PT
Engaging Patients Through Design Thinking
Pedja Klasnja – University of Michigan
 
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm PT
Engaging Patients Through Behavioral Economics
Craig Fox – UCLA
 
2:45 pm - 5:00 pm PT
Capstone Projects
2020 mHealth Training Institute - Day 4
8:00 am - 9:00 am PT
Practical Tools for Actualizing Your mHealth Research: Open Source ePlatforms
Tim Hnat – MD2K
 
9:00 am - 10:00 am PT
Practical Strategies for Actualizing Your mHealth Research: Engagement Apps and Dashboards
Cody Diefenthaler – FCIM
 
10:00 am - 10:15 am PT
Break
10:15 am - 11:00 am PT
Productizing Your Innovation: Insights from a University's Tech Transfer Team
Megha Patel – UCLA
 
Joel Kehle – UCLA
 
11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Productizing Your Innovation: A Conversation with Deborah Estrin & Gillian Hayes
Deborah Estrin – Cornell Tech
 
Gillian Hayes – UC-Irvine
 
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PT
Lunch
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm PT
Capstone Projects
2020 mHealth Training Institute - Day 5
8:00 am - 8:15 am PT
Team 1

Capstone Presentation

8:15 am - 8:30 am PT
Team 2

Capstone Presentation

8:30 am - 8:45 am PT
Team 3

Capstone Presentation

8:45 am - 9:00 am PT
Team 4

Capstone Presentation

9:00 am - 9:15 am PT
Team 5

Capstone Presentation

9:15 am - 9:30 am PT
Break
9:30 am - 10:00 am PT
How to Engage in Transdisciplinary mHealth?
Donna Spruijt-Metz – USC
 
Santosh Kumar – University of Memphis
 
10:00 am - 10:30 am PT
Getting Recognition for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Vivek Shetty – UCLA
 
10:30 am - 11:00 am PT
Survive & Thrive in Academia
Vivek Shetty – UCLA
 
11:00 am - 11:45 am PT
NIH Funding for Transdisciplinary mHealth Projects
Kay Wanke – NIH, Office of Disease Prevention / Tobacco Regulatory Science Program
 
Audie Atienza – NIH, National Center for Advancing Translational Science
 
11:45 am - 1:00 pm PT
Lunch / Graduation Certificates / Closing Comments

Program Committee

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