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Recent Research Projects
Current External Grants:
1) NIH R34DA052920: Re-Connect: Personalized, Non-Monetary Rewards for Smoking Cessation
2) South Jersey Institute for Population Health: Improving Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Retention After Release From Incarceration; collaboration with investigators at Rutgers-Camden and Cooper University Hospital
3) PCORI (subcontract with University of Pennsylvania, PI Delgado): Text-Messaging Telehealth and Contingency Management for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Engagement: collaboration with investigators at University of Pennsylvania, Cooper University Hospital, and others.
4) The impact of cannabis and tobacco/nicotine co-use in young adults: collaboration with investigators at Medical University of North Caroline; University of Kentucky
Current Graduate Student Projects:
1) Contingency Management intervention for increasing adherence with medications for opioid use disorder: This project, in the final stages of analysis, examined the impact of a financial incentive on increasing early adherence with buprenorphine and abstinence from other opioids.
2) Laboratory Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Physical Activity: This project evaluates the effects of a virtual reality physical activity session, compared to a more traditional treadmill session, on intent to comply with physical activity recommendations, as well as on mood and cognition.
2) Performative activism: qualitative research to develop an operational definition of “performative activism” followed by a brief training to see if individuals can learn to discriminate performative from non-performative (i.e., supportive) acts.
Past NIH-funded Grants:
Incentives for Internet-based Blood Glucose Testing in Adolescent Type 1 Diabetes
Recently Completed Internal Grants:
Camden Health Research Initiative Projects
(1) CM + MOUD: Increasing adherence with medications for opioid use disorder
(2) CM + ACT: Mobile smoking cessation intervention among individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorder
(3) Project VAPE: Exploring vaping dependence among three distinct patient populations
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