Mitchell Laboratory News & Announcements

Dr. Misol Kwon presented at the 2025 SLEEP Meeting.

Eva Nicolosi and Morgan McDonald joined the lab in May 2025 as clinical research coordinators. We are excited to welcome them to CHOP and see what they accomplish with the lab!

Giuliana Vellecorsa has been a clinical research coordinator in the lab for two years. She has moved on from the lab and enrolled in La Salle University's Psy.D. Program in Clinical Psychology. Congratulations to Giuliana!

Dr. Jessica Decker has been promoted!

In person exercise programs are highly selective, costly, and inconvenient. Digital health applications can mitigate these barriers by remotely promoting PA beyond the point of care.

Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Cielo are named directors of the CHOP Pediatric Sleep and Circadian Research Affinity Group. This RAG provides a home for investigators with expertise in sleep and circadian fields doing a broad array of clinical research at CHOP.

Multiple members of the lab contributed to this project that detailed specific behavior change techniques that have been used in pediatric sleep intervention and documents key behavior change techniques that are most effective.

Dr. Mitchell senior-authored this study that revealed associations between sleep health and blood pressure among youth referred for elevate blood pressure evaluation.

Dr. Chen presented findings from a study that is assessing the performance of machine learning algorithms applied to actigraphy for sleep detection in children.

Emily was a CRC in the lab for 2 years. She left the lab and enrolled in the University of Pittsburgh Dental School that has a curriculum that focuses on person-centered care, professionalism and ethics, community outreach, and evidence-based medicine. Congratulation to Emily!