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Join the mHealth Research Core as Helen Egger, MD, presents: Digital Mental Health:My Journey from Academia to Start-up (Little Otter) Thursday, July 8, 2021 2:00 – 3:00 PM CDT CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE ZOOM LINK After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

May 25, 2021 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Registration LinkA Zoom link will be provided to all registrants prior to the workshop. This workshop will give researchers and research staff an opportunity to share experiences, challenges and best practices around the use of e-consent. By sharing with others, we hope attendees will continue to develop and improve […]

The Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia and Research Methods Special Interest Groups are hosting the conversation hour on  Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 5PM PST (6PM MST/7PM CST/8PM EST)! Drs. Martin Sliwinski and Laura Germine will cover the integration of technology and cognitive assessment in which trainees, early career psychologists, junior faculty, and/or senior faculty can come to […]

Guidance on defining the scope and development of text-based coaching protocols for digital mental health interventions (sagepub.com)

The Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at the Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine hosts a monthly CBITs Digital Mental Health Webinar featuring talks on or related to digital mental health from leaders across a wide range of specialties, including psychology and psychiatry, human-computer interaction, computer science, implementation science and policy. The webinars are open […]

Microrandomized Trial Design for Evaluating Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions Through Mobile Health Technologies for Cardiovascular Disease Golbus JR, Dempsey W, Jackson EA, Nallamothu BK, Klasnja P. Microrandomized Trial Design for Evaluating Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions Through Mobile Health Technologies for Cardiovascular Disease. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2021 Feb;14(2):e006760. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.120.006760. Epub 2021 Jan 12. PMID: 33430608.

The Center for Dissemination & Implementation has announced a webinar, Human-Centered Design of Interventions and Strategies: Improving ‘The thing’ and ‘How to do the thing’ featuring Aaron Lyon, PhD, on March 10 from 12-1pm CT. Dr. Lyon, the SMART Center Director & Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of […]

The mHealth Research Core is pleased to host the next mHRC virtual seminar. TOPICS: “Paradoxical Effects of Chronic Disease Self-Care”  – Kenneth Freedland, PhD “Impact of Glucose Variability on Dynamic Cognitive Function in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes”  – Mary Katherine Ray, PhD DATE: Thursday, March 4th TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. CT INVITE/LINK: […]

Becker Library REDCap Webinars for December and JanuaryRegistration open for upcoming REDCap webinars! Join Becker Library’s Data Management and Sharing Services for REDCap Webinars in December and January. Click the name of the session below for information and to register (required). A Zoom link will be provided prior to the workshop for all who register. […]

Precision clinical trials: a framework for getting to precision medicine for neurobehavioural disorders This article describes how to use mHealth, both as intervention and to measure treatment outcome, towards the goal of precision medicine.  The article focuses on neurobehavioral disorders but has broader implications for any research using mHealth. Lenze EJ, Nicol GE, Barbour DL, […]

Key Points Question  Does fluvoxamine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and σ-1 receptor agonist, prevent clinical deterioration in outpatients with acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Findings  In this randomized trial that included 152 adult outpatients with confirmed COVID-19 and symptom onset within 7 days, clinical deterioration occurred in 0 patients treated with fluvoxamine vs 6 (8.3%) patients […]

Mobile health apps are promising vehicles for delivering scalable health behavior change interventions to populations that are otherwise difficult to reach and engage, such as young adults with psychiatric conditions. To improve uptake and sustain consumer engagement, mobile health interventions need to be responsive to individuals’ needs and preferences

Antidepressant drug repurposed for patients with coronavirus infection.

The recent ICTS mHealth Research Core meeting audio Recording is now available. Speakers included: Andrea Graham, PhDAssistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive MedicineNorthwestern University FeinbergSchool of Medicine “Designing digital mental health interventions and their integration into health care settings” Jane Garbutt, MDProfessor of Medicine and PediatricsWashington University School of Medicine “Evaluation of an […]

NIMH Virtual Seminar: Decision-Making and Computational Psychiatry: An Explanatory and Pragmatic Perspective Date/Time: November 12, 2020, 3:00-4:00 PM ET On November 12, 2020, Martin Paulus, M.D., Scientific Director and President of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be the guest speaker in the NIMH Director’s Innovation Speaker Series. Dr. Paulus will […]

Ecological Daily Needs Assessment: examining the utility of a smartphone-based technique to detect dynamic user preferences for tailoring behavioral interventions – PubMed The technique provides an individually dynamic and contextually relevant alternative and complement to traditional needs assessment for assessing individually dynamic user needs and preferences during treatment development or adaptation. The results of this […]

Remote Assessments in the COVID-19 Era:On Smartphones, Websites and other Zoomsday Scenarios Presenter: Jason Hassenstab, PhDAssociate Professor, Depts of Neurology and Psychological & Brain Sciences To register please email Brittany Minorbminor@wustl.edu

Tuesday, October 27, 12-1 p.m. Chenyang Lu, PhD,  Fullgraf Professor at Washington University, will virtually present “Digital Phenotyping with Wearables: Learning from Wearable Data to Predict Clinical Outcomes” as part of the Symposium for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (SAIM) seminar series organized by the Institute for Informatics and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. […]

REDCap in a Flash – REDCap e-Consent Versioning Learn to update your REDCap e-Consent after a modification to your Informed Consent Form is approved by the IRB. October 21, 2020 – 12:00 – 12:30pm REGISTER

REDCap in a Flash – Creating an e-Consent Form using the Online Designer and mHealth Template Data Dictionary Learn to create an e-Consent survey in REDCap using the online designer and mHealth Research Core’s template data dictionary. This is an alternative approach to creating an e-Consent form from what was demonstrated during the REDCap e-Consent […]

On September 22, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is launching the Digital Health Center of Excellence within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). 

Becker Library is pleased to offer introductory, hands-on REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) workshops. REDCap is a secure, web-based application for building and managing online databases and surveys. Developed at Vanderbilt University and made freely available to other institutions, our Washington University instance of REDCap is managed by the Institute for Informatics. Join us in person or […]

REDCap in a Flash is a series of webinars that take a deep dive into specific REDCap topics and tools. This weeks topic is: REDCap e-Consent Framework DATE: Wednesday, September 16th TIME: 12:00 p.m. (noon) Click link for more information and to REGISTER

McLean Hospital’s Institute for Technology in Psychiatry (ITP) brings together thought leaders in health care, data science, technology, industry, patient advocacy, academic research, and more for this three-day event to build on the promise of technology in the diagnosis and delivery of mental health care. WHEN: Weds., October 28 – Friday, October 30,  2020 For more information […]

A nice introduction to digital trials.

It is extremely difficult to capture mental health symptom change using traditional clinical trial methodology. Many clinical trials fail late stage and are unable to demonstrate drug efficacy, but a major factor in this is the way patient outcomes are being measured – not the viability of the drug. 

The Translational Science Benefits Model: A New Framework for Assessing the Health and Societal Benefits of Clinical and Translational Sciences

DiMe has launched a Library of Digital Endpoints.  This web site is focused on industry-sponsored studies of new medical products or new applications of existing medical products. Click to find out more or to add to the library.

BioBusiness Briefs: May 14, 2020

Researcher Town HallsFriday, May 82 – 3 p.m.Guest Speakers:Sean Whelan, PhD – COVID-19 Research at Washington University​Elvin Geng, MD, MPH – COVID-19 ModelingAccess Zoom link (WUSTL Key required) Submit questions in advance for the upcoming Town Hall​

How To Do Longitudinal remote Mobile Clinical Research Thursday, April 30th 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (CDT) This event is being held by the UW ALACRITY Center The Webinar Recording may be accessible at:  Eventbrite.com Helpful Resource Materials from this webinar Science and Social Distancing: How to Do Longitudinal Remote (mobile) Clinical Research Chat questions […]