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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨
Poster abstracts for @ioptimize.bsky.social conference are now due Oct 13, 11:59 p.m. ET.

✅ All submissions are posters
⚡ New: Option to give a <2-min lightning talk to spotlight your work

Join us May 18–20, 2026 in Bethesda, MD.

🔗 Submit your abstract: bit.ly/submit26

d3center @d3center.bsky.social · 13d

@devtomlinson.bsky.social & @laracoughlinphd.bsky.social discuss the Incentives to Quit program—a hybrid human+digital contingency management approach using CO breath sensors, app check-ins + coaching to support quitting. Pilot results: 61% quit by 4 wks; 55% maintained at 1-mo. #SmokingCessation

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · 22d

The d3center is thrilled to co-host the first-ever Conference on Intervention Optimization! We're bringing together brilliant minds from health, education, engineering & beyond. May 18-20 in the DC area. Registration opens soon: bit.ly/ioptimize26 #IOptimize26

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · 22d

📢 Call for poster abstracts! The d3center invites submissions for the Conference on Intervention Optimization, May 18-20 in Bethesda, MD. Share your research in intervention optimization across health, education, engineering & more. Deadline: Oct 9. bit.ly/ioptimize26 #IOptimize26

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Aug 14

Join us this afternoon at 2 ET for our AHSR webinar series event: Innovations in Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Substance Use Prevention & Treatment.

Billie Nahum-Shani, Lizbeth 'Libby' Benson, Lindsey Potter, Lara Coughlin, Amy Hughes Lansing, & Maureen Walton.

Register 👉 myumi.ch/pV2V9

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations, Dr. Sripada! 🌟

Rebecca Sripada, PhD, ABPP @rebeccasripada.bsky.social · Aug 11

Very excited to announce a new project funded by VA HSR: SMART Therapist Training: A Hybrid Factorial-SMART design

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Aug 8

📢 Join us Th, Aug 14 for our webinar in the Addiction Health Services Research series: Innovations in Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Substance Use Prevention & Treatment.

w/Billie Nahum-Shani, Lindsey Potter, Lara Coughlin, Amy Hughes Lansing, & Maureen Walton.

Register 👉 myumi.ch/pV2V9

Advancing AHSR: 2025–2026 Webinar Series

While AHSR 2025 may be on pause, our community isn’t! Join us for a special six-part webinar series running through Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 as we stay connected and dive into the most pressing topic...

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Aug 8

Pilot Grant Spotlight 4/4: ‪@devtomlinson.bsky.social‬ will establish a patient advisory board of people interested in quitting smoking and work with them to develop content for a contingency management-based intervention. Results will inform a future hybrid optimization trial. More: myumi.ch/xw9wb

Establishing a Patient Advisory Board toward a Hybrid Experimental Design Combining Coaching and Digital Contingency Management to Promote Smoking Cessation

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Aug 1

Pilot Grant Spotlight 3/4: In preparation for a future hybrid SMART-MRT, @phdgrau.bsky.social will develop and refine a stepped-care intervention combining therapist-delivered and digital support, specifically tailored for patients with PTSD and co-occurring risky substance use (RSU). myumi.ch/mRXw1

Developing a Stepped Care Intervention Integrating Daily Symptom Monitoring for Individuals with PTSD and Risky Substance Use in Federally Qualified Health Centers

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jul 29

Pilot Grant Spotlight 2/4: Shiyu Zhang's pilot project will address systematic nonadherence in ecological momentary assessments (EMAs), paving the way for more accurate and representative assessments that enhance the effectiveness of nicotine reduction interventions. More: myumi.ch/pVMJ1

Towards Reducing Missing Information in Ecological Momentary Assessment of the Use of Non-Combustible Nicotine Products

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jul 23

Pilot Grant Spotlight 1/4: Led by @leb112358.bsky.social, this new pilot project aims to boost user engagement with mobile smoking cessation apps. Her team will develop personalized feedback visualizations designed with user input. Learn more: myumi.ch/79649

Personalized Feedback Visualizations for Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 We just awarded four new pilot grants to early-career researchers through the d3center’s Pilot Grant Program! Backed by our NIDA P50, these projects apply our methods to urgent challenges in substance use.

Starting tomorrow, we’ll spotlight one project per day. Stay tuned.

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jul 10

Only 1% of Veterans with stimulant use disorder received contingency management (CM). Factors like age, race, and housing status influenced CM receipt, indicating areas for improved access. 📘 Full study: doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jul 10

New in Biometrics: A Bayesian joint longitudinal-survival model tailored for intensive longitudinal data using latent stochastic processes—particularly suited for mHealth applications! 📈📱

Read more: doi.org/10.1093/biom...

A Bayesian joint longitudinal-survival model with a latent stochastic process for intensive longitudinal data

ABSTRACT. The availability of mobile health (mHealth) technology has enabled increased collection of intensive longitudinal data (ILD). ILD have potential

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jul 3

New research by Alex Psihogios and d3center’s Susan Murphy highlights patient participation in designing just-in-time adaptive interventions. Their human-centered approach aims to improve oral chemo adherence in adolescents and young adults with blood cancers (Pediatr Blood Cancer): myumi.ch/pVd21

Human‐Centered Design of a Personalized Digital Health Intervention to Improve Oral Chemotherapy Adherence in Adolescents and Young Adults With Hematologic Cancers

Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma therapy includes a maintenance phase involving daily administration of an oral chemotherapy called 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP). Adolescents and young adu...

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share new work in @natmed.nature.com! 🌟 A global collaboration between Kyoto University and d3center director Inbal Billie Nahum-Shani explores smartphone-based CBT for subthreshold depression using an innovative factorial design. myumi.ch/z9ZzZ #BehavioralScience #MentalHealth #CBT

Cognitive behavioral therapy skills via a smartphone app for subthreshold depression among adults in the community: the RESiLIENT randomized controlled trial - Nature Medicine

A trial that used a master randomized design found that the skills commonly found in smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy, when tested alone or in combination with behavioral activation, were...

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jun 19

This week at the Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, d3center affiliate @jillianstrayhorn.bsky.social presented on using Bayesian methods to optimize multicomponent interventions, highlighting the value of considering multiple outcomes: myumi.ch/P3mQP #SMDM25

Decision-making in the multiphase optimization strategy: Applying decision analysis for intervention value efficiency to optimize an information leaflet to promote key antecedents of medication adhere...

The recently proposed decision-making framework for use in intervention optimization, DAIVE, was applied to select a new optimized information leaflet to s

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congrats to our director, Billie Nahum-Shani, and d3center collaborator @meganepatrick.bsky.social on receiving this well-deserved honor! 🎉

UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Office of the Vice President for Research will award Inbal Nahum-Shani & @meganepatrick.bsky.social‬ with Collegiate Research Professorships for their exceptional scholarly achievements and advanced knowledge in their field myumi.ch/3RME9 @mtfstudy.bsky.social‬ @d3center.bsky.social‬

CONGRATULATIONS
Inbal Nahum-Shani
Megan Patrick
Collegiate Research Professorships
Office of the Vice President for Research

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jun 16

Today at #CPDD2025, Yale’s Dr. Jennifer Edelman shared findings from a d3c supported SMART study. Pharmacist-delivered meds plus contingency management significantly improve smoking cessation among people with HIV.
#SMARTdesign #AdaptiveInterventions #SmokingCessation #HIVCare #ResearchCollaboration

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Jun 12

A look at Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health's Annual Research Retreat, themed "The Science of Co-Occurring Disorders." Visiting d3c researcher Inbal Billie Nahum-Shani engaged in discussions focused on innovative digital treatments for substance use and mental health disorders.

d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thanks to Pei-Yao Hung @peiyaoh.bsky.social, d3c Software Developer, and Jamie Yap, d3c Data Scientist, for representing us so well at the University of Michigan AI in Science and Engineering Symposium!

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Feb 14

We had such an amazing group of Fellows at CATIE 2025. Thank you to everyone for your enthusiasm, ideas, and passion for research!

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · Feb 12

Inbal Nahum-Shani, Jamie Yap & coauthors (@d3center.bsky.social) examine how & when work stressors & peer norms impact career entrants’ alcohol-related behavior and its consequences myumi.ch/zXRNG

How and when do work stressors and peer norms impact career entrants’ alcohol-related behavior and its consequences? - Inbal Nahum-Shani, Jamie RT Yap, Peter A Bamberger, Mo Wang, Mary E Larimer, Samu...

Do the key drivers of alcohol misuse change as young adults transition from early to late stages of employee onboarding? To answer this question, a series of hy...

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Feb 3

📢 Upcoming Seminar: Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Health. Join us as Ziping Xu presents on RL for mobile health at @UMich Biostatistics!
📅 Thursday, Feb 6
🕞 3:30-4:30 PM
📍 SPH I, Room 1690
#mHealth #ReinforcementLearning

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d3center @d3center.bsky.social · Feb 3

🔎 Hybrid Designs Research Spotlight
Missed our latest newsletter? Read about Hybrid Experimental Designs (HEDs) and how they’re shaping the future of adaptive interventions: myumi.ch/qVX2N #HybridDesigns #InterventionOptimization

Spotlight on Research with Hybrid Experimental Designs

Hybrid Experimental Designs (HEDs) are transforming the way researchers optimize the integration and adaptation of human-delivered and digital intervention components. Since human-delivered components...

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