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

(Luskin Conference Center)

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PT
Dinner Reception / Participant Self-Introductions

(Plateia Restaurant)

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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