Harnessing the Cognitive Power of IBM Watson to Enhance Academic Research, the April Tech Tuesday Talk presentation is now online. For additional information about the presentation or questions about IBM Watson, please contact TecHealth Entrepreneur in Residence, Jim Stritzinger.
Exercise Science doctoral student and MPH-PAPH graduate Chelsea Larsen builds a career using technology to facilitate and promote healthy behavior change.
Looking back, Christine Pellegrini identifies her time in London as a major turning point in her career trajectory. Sports and physical activity had always been important to the Chicago native, but she became interested in behavior change and obesity treatment during her semester abroad as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Physical activity was simply a way for TecHealth and HPEB faculty member, Courtney Monroe to have fun when she was growing up. Now it’s her calling. Add emerging technologies to the mix, and she has found what is shaping up to be a lifelong pursuit.
Delia West, TecHealth Director and TecHealth Postdoctoral Fellow Courtney Monroe in collaboration with Arnold School of Public Health colleagues Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Sara Wilcox, Heather M Brandt, Chelsea Larsen and Beth Sundstrom, from the College of Charleston authored “A Technology-Mediated Behavioral Weight Gain Prevention Intervention for College Students: Controlled, Quasi-Experimental Study” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Chelsea Larsen is a 2016 recipient of the Norman J. Arnold Doctoral Fellowship Award in the Arnold School of Public Health Department of Exercise Science. Established in 2010, this prestigious award is given to outstanding PhD students through departmental recommendation and committee evaluation. Larsen is one of only six students in the Department of Exercise Science chosen to receive the award this year. A former TecHealth research assistant and intern, she is currently a second year doctoral student in the Health Aspects of Physical Activity Program within the Department of Exercise Science. Larsen is also the recipient of the Behavioral-Biomedical Interface Program (BBIP) predoctoral fellowship award with TecHealth Director Delia West, serving as her mentor during her doctoral studies.
NIH-grant recently awarded to TecHealth Director Delia West explores whether online behavioral weight management programs are enhanced with the addition of financial incentives. This is the third in a series of studies to design and refine a group-based online lifestyle intervention to promote sustained weight control.
TecHealth Postdoctoral fellow, Courtney Monroe, was awarded one of the inaugural ASPIRE I grants for postdoctoral fellows. She is examining whether augmenting the natural social support systems of individuals in a behavioral weight control program by providing physical activity trackers and electronic scales to their friends and family can improve weight loss outcomes.
It’s late September, time for many adults to settle in for a new season of prime-time drama, comedy, sports, reality competition and the occasional three-hour political debate. But as you get comfy on your sofa, you might want to consider this: Your TV habit might be killing you. A growing body of evidence links not just sitting in general but TV viewing in particular with all sorts of health problems. Those include obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and, yes, premature death.