Designing and Testing a Mobile Health Intervention to Improve Adolescent Male Health

The mHealth Research Affinity Group presents a seminar:

Designing and Testing a Mobile Health Intervention to Improve Adolescent Male Health

Speaker

Lauren S. Chernick, MD MSc
Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Emergency Medicine
Associate Professor of Population and Family Health
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

In this presentation, Dr. Chernick will explore the five phases of app development that her multi-disciplinary team followed to create the personalized and interactive app, Dr. ERIC (Emergency Room Interventions to Improve Care). The app is a theory-based, user-informed digital health intervention built to increase condom use among adolescent and young adult male emergency department patients. Dr. Chernick will also present results from an NIH-funded pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the implementation and preliminary efficacy of the intervention.

Dr. Chernick is a pediatric emergency medicine provider and clinical investigator whose NIH-funded research focuses on improving adolescent and young adult reproductive and sexual health in the acute care setting. Over the past 10 years, she has designed, tested, and implemented innovative digital health interventions with the goal of creating mobile health tools that are effective, patient-centered, and designed to fit neatly within the emergency department workflow. She teaches at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and has extensive experience with qualitative and quantitative data analysis, clinical trials, and user-centered design.