Program Overview
Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA)
This TIP is the first formal program to convene faculty from across Vanderbilt University (VU) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to address critical gaps in infrastructure, knowledge and technologies related to the rapidly growing domain of mobile technology systems for improving health and guiding healthy behaviors (collectively termed “mHealth”). Together, investigators aim to leverage their abilities to make Vanderbilt the national model for integrating mHealth technologies into personalized healthcare delivery, not just in the target disease state of this first phase (pediatric obesity and asthma), but in the various health maintenance/prevention and disease management states that individuals face. The team is building the foundation and infrastructure for an enduring and expanding trans-institutional program at Vanderbilt that goes beyond the specific goals of this project to tackle multiple health and health behavior problems by using mHealth technologies to improve patient, provider, educator and researcher activities/interactions.
Faculty Participants
Lead Faculty in bold
School of Engineering
- Douglas Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science, EECS
- Jules White, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, EECS
- Abhishek Dubey, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, EECS
College of Arts and Science
- David Schlundt, Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- S. Trent Rosenbloom, Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs; Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Associate; Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; Associate Professor, School of Nursing
- Robert Cronin, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
- Heidi J. Silver, Director Vanderbilt Diet, Body Composition, and Human Metabolism Core; Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; Research Associate Professor, School of Nursing
- Maciej Buchowski, Director, Energy Balance Core; Research Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
- Matt Shotwell, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
- Sari Acra, Division Chief and Medical Director; Director, Fellowship Program; Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
- Don Arnold, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
- Paul Moore, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology; Director, Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine
- Kevin Wilson, Director, Center for Analytic Software and Mobile Technology