Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Biography
My research focuses on using behavioral theory and novel methodologies to develop adaptive interventions, namely interventions that use ongoing information about the individual to modify the type/intensity/delivery-mode of support.
Health Psychology:
- Adaptive Interventions
- Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions
- Social Support, Stress and Health
Research Methods:
- Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) and related data analytic methods for constructing adaptive interventions
- Factorial and Fractional Factorial Designs
- Multilevel Data Analysis and Experimental Designs for developing behavioral interventions
Projects
Funded Research
- 2016 SMART Weight Loss
- An Adaptive Preventive Intervention to Optimize the Transition from Universal to Indicated Resources for College Student Alcohol Use
- Methods Training Using Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial (SMART) Designs for Adaptive Interventions in Education
- Multi-level interventions for increasing tobacco cessation at FQHCs
- Novel Longitudinal Methods for SMART Studies of Drug Abuse and HIV
- Novel use of mHealth data to identify states of vulnerability and receptivity to JITAIs
- The College-to-Work Transition & Alcohol Misuse: An Etiologic Study
- University of Memphis Centers of Excellence for Big Data Computing in the Biomedical Sciences (U54)