Announcements & News
November 4, 2024 — mHail is looking for Postdocs!
The Mobile Health and Adaptive Interventions Lab is seeking 1-2 postdoctoral fellows to join our team at the University of Michigan, where we have several NIH-funded clinical trials developing and evaluating digital/mHealth technologies to address suicide risk (see Research/Publications page for more about our work). We are recruiting through both the child (primary mentor: Dr. Ewa Czyz) and adult (primary mentor: Dr. Adam Horwitz) tracks of the APA-accredited Michigan Medicine/VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (MICHMED/VAAAHS) Clinical Psychology Consortium. For more information and information on applying, click here. In your cover letter, please clearly specify Dr. Czyz and/or Dr. Horwitz as your primary research mentor. Postdoctoral fellows participate in a core curriculum, evidence-based clinical training, and mentored clinical research. If you’re interested in working with intensive longitudinal data (e.g., EMA, passive sensing) and/or development of adaptive mobile interventions for reducing suicide risk, please reach out to us at mhail.research@umich.edu for more details and to get in touch with the Principal Investigators! Applications are due December 2.
July 26, 2024 — Notice of Award for Dr. Czyz's R01!
We are pleased to share that Dr. Czyz's R01, "Effectiveness of text-based support for parents of suicidal adolescents following emergency department visits" has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. This 4-year project will provide parents of suicidal adolescents with an adaptive text-based intervention combining adolescent-centered (i.e., encouraging parental engagement in suicide prevention activities to promote youth safety) and parent-centered (i.e., encouraging self-care strategies for parent's own stress) messages with an embedded microrandomized trial (MRT). This 4-year project formally begins on August 1st, 2024.
June 2024 — Upcoming Conference Presentations
Come learn more about our work at the following presentations!
Society for Ambulatory Assessment (June 3 -5, 2024; Ann Arbor; Register here)
Intensive Longitudinal Assessment Following Index Trauma to Predict Development of PTSD using Machine Learning (Paper Talk, Presenter: Adam Horwitz)
Comparative effectiveness of three digital interventions for adults seeking outpatient psychiatry services: Results from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (Symposium, Presenter: Adam Horwitz)
April 2024 — Recent Conference Presentations
In case you missed SRS, recordings from the presentations are linked below!
Suicide Research Symposium (April 17-19, 2024)
Attitudes and Barriers to Mobile Mental Health Interventions among First-Year College Students (Symposium, Presenter: Kaitlyn McCarthy (00:40 - 16:14))
Predicting Short-Term Suicide Attempts with Intensive Longitudinal Data: Proof-Of-Concept Study (Paper/Oral Presentation, Presenter: Ewa Czyz (27:54 - 42:30)
Self-Reported Daily Stressors for Caregivers of Youth Visiting Psychiatric Emergency Departments (Data Blitz/Flash Talk, Presenter: Val Micol (13:35 - 18:43)
March 20, 2024 — Notice of Award for our R34!
We are pleased to share that our R34, "Facilitating effective coping to reduce suicide risk following ED discharge: A micro-randomized trial to develop an adaptive text-based intervention" has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. This grant will develop an Electronic Safety Plan for use in the Psychiatric Emergency Department that syncs with a text-based program to support continued use of the safety plan during the weeks following discharge. This 3-year project will formally begin on April 1st, 2024.
March 18, 2024 — mHail is Hiring!
Our stellar RA is off to a Clinical Psychology PhD program this summer, so our team is seeking to hire a new full-time research assistant. RA responsibilities include assisting with study management and regulation/reporting, participant recruitment and compensation, contributing to intervention development and delivery, and contributing to scientific presentations and manuscripts. To apply, please submit your application through this portal. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions!