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What: Featuring the Meredith Kilgore Endowed Lecturer, Linda Collins, PhD, this half-day virtual symposium is designed to provide local and national attendees with a general overview, recent developments, and current projects regarding the multiphase optimization strategy of intervention development and testing.
Who: This symposium will be of interest to behavioral and biobehavioral researchers across the topical spectrum and who are at any career stage.
When: Thursday February 17, 2022 from 8:00am to 12:30pm.
Where: Online via Zoom. Register here to receive Zoom information. -
Registration is now closed. If you missed the symposium, or would like to re-watch any of the presentations, recordings are available below:
Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions: A MOST Primer
Rachel Wells, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL
University of Alabama at BirminghamApplying the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) to Your Field: A Case Study in Child Maltreatment Prevention
Kate Guastaferro, PhD, MPH
Penn State College of Health and Human DevelopmentSMART Lifestyle Interventions for Improving Health and Wellbeing in People with Obesity
Drew Sayer, PhD
University of Alabama at BirminghamThe Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST): Current and Future Directions
Meredith Kilgore Endowed Lecturer
Linda Collins, PhD
NYU School of Global Public Health -
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8:00am - 8:50am
Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions: A MOST Primer
Rachel Wells, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL
University of Alabama at Birmingham -
9:00am - 9:50am
Applying the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) to Your Field: A Case Study in Child Maltreatment Prevention
Kate Guastaferro, PhD, MPH
Penn State College of Health and Human Development -
10:00am - 10:50am
SMART Lifestyle Interventions for Improving Health and Wellbeing in People with Obesity
Drew Sayer, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham -
11:00am - 12:30pm
The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST): Current and future directions
Meredith Kilgore Endowed Lecturer
Linda Collins, PhD
NYU School of Global Public Health
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8:00am - 8:50am
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Linda M. Collins, PhD
NYU School of Global Public Health
Linda M. Collins is Professor of Global Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. She earned her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Connecticut and her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology at the University of Southern California.
Collins’ research interests are focused on the development, dissemination, and application of the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), a framework for the optimization of behavioral, biobehavioral, and social-structural interventions. The objective of MOST is to improve intervention effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and scalability. She is currently collaborating on research applying MOST in the areas of smoking cessation, the prevention of excessive drinking and risky sex in college students, and HIV services.
Kate Guastaferro, PhD, MPH
Penn State College of Health and Human Development
Kate Guastaferro, Ph.D. is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Healthy Children, and an affiliate of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network as well as the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, at The Pennsylvania State University. Kate’s program of research sits at the intersection of prevention science and innovative methods.
Kate is committed to the prevention of child maltreatment. Her focus during her time at Penn State has focused predominantly on the prevention of child sexual abuse. Kate led the development of a parent-focused child sexual abuse prevention module designed to be added to existing evidence-based programs. She also collaborates with Dr. Jennie Noll on the implementation and evaluation of a state-wide child sexual abuse prevention strategy.
She is also interested in innovative methods for intervention development, optimization, and evaluation. She is an expert in the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), an engineering inspired framework for building interventions that are effective, efficient, economical, and scalable. Kate has experience applying MOST to a variety of public health problems, including STI prevention among first year college students.
Kate received her PhD in Public Health from Georgia State University in 2016, receiving the Public Health Achievement Award recognizing her scholarship and academic success. She completed her undergraduate work at Boston University in 2008 and received her MPH from Georgia State in 2011. Kate’s vision is to integrate her substantive and methodological interests to develop, optimize, evaluate, and disseminate child maltreatment prevention programs that are effective, efficient, economical, and scalable.
Drew Sayer, PhD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Sayer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His clinical research relies heavily on the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) Framework and, in particular, the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) experimental approach. Using these approaches, Dr. Sayer is conducting 3 ongoing SMARTs with an overarching goal of developing effective, efficient, and personalized adaptive treatment strategies for improving the health and wellbeing of people with obesity.
Rachel Wells, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Rachel Wells is a NIH/NINR-funded (1K99NR019854) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing. She received a BS in Microbiology, English, and Latin/Greek (2006) from the University of Alabama and MSN (2010) and PhD (2019) in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has an extensive clinical background in critical care and adult cardiovascular health.
Dr. Wells’ cardiovascular nursing practice, experiences in seeking specialty care as a rural dweller, and research experiences as a palliative nurse coordinator inspire her research interest in optimizing early palliative care models for under-resourced advanced heart failure patients and their family caregivers in the rural Deep South. She is interested in improving cardiovascular outcomes and pain management disparities and access to care for those living with advanced heart failure and other serious illness through innovative behavioral intervention development. -
For more information, please contact Alia Tunagur
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Recordings:
Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions: A MOST Primer
Rachel Wells, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL
University of Alabama at BirminghamApplying the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) to Your Field: A Case Study in Child Maltreatment Prevention
Kate Guastaferro, PhD, MPH
Penn State College of Health and Human DevelopmentSMART Lifestyle Interventions for Improving Health and Wellbeing in People with Obesity
Drew Sayer, PhD
University of Alabama at BirminghamThe Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST): Current and Future Directions
Meredith Kilgore Endowed Lecturer
Linda Collins, PhD
NYU School of Global Public HealthArticles from our speakers:
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Linda Collins, PhD
- Spring, B., Pfamatter, A.F., Marchese, S.H., Stump, T., Pellegrini, C., McFadden, G., Hedeker, D., Siddique, J., Jordan, N., & Collins, L.M. (2020). A factorial experiment to optimize remotely delivered behavioral treatment for obesity: Results of the Opt-In study. Obesity, 28, 1652-1662.
- Collins, L.M., Kugler, K.C., & Gwadz, M.V. (2016). Optimization of multicomponent behavioral and biobehavioral interventions for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. AIDS and Behavior, 20, 197-214.
- Collins, L.M., Strayhorn, J.C., & Vanness, D.J. (In press). One view of the next decade of research on behavioral and biobehavioral approaches to cancer prevention and control: Intervention optimization. Translational Behavioral Medicine
- Spring, B., Pfamatter, A.F., Marchese, S.H., Stump, T., Pellegrini, C., McFadden, G., Hedeker, D., Siddique, J., Jordan, N., & Collins, L.M. (2020). A factorial experiment to optimize remotely delivered behavioral treatment for obesity: Results of the Opt-In study. Obesity, 28, 1652-1662.
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Kate Guastaferro, PhD, MPH
- Guastaferro K, Collins LM. Optimization methods and implementation science: An opportunity for behavioral and biobehavioral interventions. Implement Res Pract. 2021;2:263348952110543. doi:10.1177/26334895211054363
- Guastaferro K, Collins LM. Achieving the goals of translational science in public health intervention research: The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST). Am J Public Health. 2019;109(S2):S128-S129.
- Guastaferro K, Strayhorn JC, Collins LM. The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) in child maltreatment prevention research. J Child Fam Stud. 2021:1-11. doi:10.1007/s10826-021-02062-7
- Guastaferro K, Collins LM. Optimization methods and implementation science: An opportunity for behavioral and biobehavioral interventions. Implement Res Pract. 2021;2:263348952110543. doi:10.1177/26334895211054363
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Rachel Wells, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL
- Wells, R., Dionne-Odom, J.N., Azuero, A., … , Bakitas, M. Examining Adherence and Dose Effect of An Early Palliative Care Intervention for Advanced Heart Failure Patients. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2021; Epub ahead of print. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.01.136. PMID: 33556493
- Dionne-Odom, JN, Wells, RD, Guastaferro, K, Azuero, A, Hendricks, BA, Currie, ER, Bechthold, AC, Dosse, C, Taylor, RA, Reed, RD, Harrell, ER, Gazaway, S, Engler, S, McKie, P, Williams, GR, Sudore, R, Rini, C, Rosenberg, AR, Bakitas, MA. (In press). An early palliative care telehealth coaching intervention to enhance advanced cancer family caregivers’ decision support skills: The CASCADE pilot factorial trial. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management..
- Wells RD, Guastaferro K, Azuero A, Rini C, Hendricks BA, Dosse C, Taylor R, Williams GR, Engler S, Smith C, Sudore R, Rosenberg AR, Bakitas MA, Dionne-Odom JN. Applying the Multiphase Optimization Strategy for the Development of Optimized Interventions in Palliative Care. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021 Jul;62(1):174-182. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.11.017. Epub 2020 Nov 28. PMID: 33253787; PMCID: PMC8274323.
- Wells, R., Dionne-Odom, J.N., Azuero, A., … , Bakitas, M. Examining Adherence and Dose Effect of An Early Palliative Care Intervention for Advanced Heart Failure Patients. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2021; Epub ahead of print. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.01.136. PMID: 33556493
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Additional Resources
- Almirall, Daniel et al. “Introduction to SMART designs for the development of adaptive interventions: with application to weight loss research.” Translational behavioral medicine vol. 4,3 (2014): 260-74. doi:10.1007/s13142-014-0265-0
- Nahum-Shani I, Qian M, Almirall D, Pelham WE, Gnagy B, Fabiano GA, Waxmonsky JG, Yu J, Murphy SA. Experimental design and primary data analysis methods for comparing adaptive interventions. Psychol Methods. 2012 Dec;17(4):457-477. doi: 10.1037/a0029372. Epub 2012 Oct 1. PMID: 23025433; PMCID: PMC3825557.
- Nahum-Shani, I., Qian, M., Almirall, D., Pelham, W. E., Gnagy, B., Fabiano, G. A., Waxmonsky, J. G., Yu, J., & Murphy, S. A. (2012). Q-learning: a data analysis method for constructing adaptive interventions. Psychological methods, 17(4), 478–494. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029373
- Sherwood NE, Crain AL, Seburg EM, Butryn ML, Forman EM, Crane MM, Levy RL, Kunin-Batson AS, Jeffery RW. BestFIT Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial Results: A SMART Approach to Developing Individualized Weight Loss Treatment Sequences. Ann Behav Med. 2021 Aug 20:kaab061. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaab061. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34415011.
- Almirall, Daniel et al. “Introduction to SMART designs for the development of adaptive interventions: with application to weight loss research.” Translational behavioral medicine vol. 4,3 (2014): 260-74. doi:10.1007/s13142-014-0265-0
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Linda Collins, PhD