2024 Roybal Annual Meeting

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Agenda

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Accommodations

May 14-15, 2024

Location

The Bethesdan

Hotel

Address

8120 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814

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We have reserved a block of sleeping rooms at the Bethesdan Hotel, based on the meeting/travel dates and will be billed directly to your credit card at checkout. Upon check-in, you will be required to present a credit card to cover charges incurred during your stay. Your credit card will be charged for any room charge, hotel incidentals, late cancellations, or no-show charges.

Hotel check-in begins at 3:00 pm on March 13th and check-out is 12:00 pm on March 15th. Please view the hotel’s website for additional information about the amenities and surrounding attractions.

Speakers

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Speakers

Belinda Borrelli, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor and Director of The Center for Behavioral Science Research at Boston University, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, UK. She is also the PI and Director of BU's Mobile and Electronic Health-ARC. Her research focuses on motivating health behavior change across a wide variety of behaviors (e.g., smoking, vaping, oral health, treatment adherence, asthma, dietary, physical activity) and populations. She specializes in treatment development, particularly for those who are unmotivated to change, and integrating theory-based treatments into public health contexts. She has developed and tested mobile health platforms for behavior change (mobile apps, text messaging, Virtual Reality). She has served on grant review panels in the US, Europe, and the UK. She was founder and chair of the NIH-Behavioral Change Consortium (BCC) Treatment Fidelity Workgroup and published best practices guidelines on treatment fidelity which have over 4,200 citations. She was also an advisor to NIDCR and NHLBI on treatment fidelity, publishing invited articles on best practice guidelines. She is a Fellow of the APA, The Society of Behavioral Medicine, and The Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco. She has been Associate Editor at Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology and Addiction and is currently Associate Editor at American Psychologist. She was named "TEDMED Research Scholar" in 2015.

David M. Clark, DPhil ,CBE, FBA, FMedSci, FAcSS, HonFBPs, His research mainly focuses on cognitive approaches to the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders. His team uses a closely integrated program of experimental and clinical studies. The general strategy has been to: (i) use clinical interviews and cognitive psychology paradigms to identify the core cognitive abnormality in an anxiety disorder; (ii) to construct a theoretical account which explains why the cognitive abnormality does not self-correct; (iii) test the hypothesized maintaining factors in rigorous experimental studies; (iv) develop specialized cognitive treatments which aim to reverse the maintaining factors; (v) test the efficacy of the treatments in randomized controlled trials.

The research has led to the development of new and effective cognitive therapy programs for three different anxiety disorders: panic disorder, social phobia and posttraumatic stress disorder, each of which are recommended first line treatment options in current NICE guidelines.

A further strand of his research has focused on how to disseminate the new treatments so they can be made available to as many people as possible. The first major dissemination project focused on training clinicians in cognitive therapy for PTSD in order to provide effective treatment services for victims of bombs in Omagh and London. The second project is the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) program that has trained over 10,000 new psychological therapists and deployed them in specialist psychological therapy services for anxiety disorders and depression. The clinical outcomes of everyone who receives a course of therapy are recorded using a unique session by session outcome monitoring system. The overall outcomes achieved by each IAPT service and their breakdown by a wide range of patients and demographic characteristics are publicly reported. Analyses of outcome variation have been used to identify optimal ways of delivering therapy and have facilitated service improvements. I have been involved with the program since its inception and am currently the National Clinical and Informatics Advisor. A third project involves developing and evaluating internet versions of the treatments.

A broad overview of my work can be found in Layard & Clark's (2014) Thrive (Penguin).

Sona Dimidjian, Ph.D., is Director of the Renée Crown Wellness Institute and Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her current research projects focus on preventing depression and supporting wellness among new and expectant mothers, promoting healthy body image and leadership among young women, and enhancing mindfulness and compassion among youth, families and educators. She also has a longstanding interest in expanding access, scaling, and sustaining effective programs, using both digital technology and community-based partnerships. Dr. Dimidjian received her BA in psychology from the University of Chicago and her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Washington.

Emily A. Largent, JD, PhD, RN, is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and faculty member of the Penn Roybal Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, she holds a secondary appointment at Penn Law, is a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and is affiliated with the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. Dr. Largent’s work explores ethical and regulatory aspects of human subjects research and also the ethical, legal, social, and clinical aspects of our changing understanding of Alzheimer’s disease with a focus on the patient-care partner dyad. Dr. Largent co-leads the Ethics and Regulation Core of the NIA-funded IMPACT Collaboratory and leads the Ethics and Policy Core of the NIA-funded Penn AI Tech Collaboratory; she is the associate leader of the Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core for the Penn ADRC. Dr. Largent studied Science, Technology, and International Affairs as an undergraduate at Georgetown University and earned a second degree in nursing from Penn Nursing. She received her PhD in Health Policy, with a concentration in ethics, from Harvard University and her JD from Harvard Law School. Dr. Largent was previously a fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.

Resources for the Annual Meeting

A New Tool to Assess Treatment Fidelity and Evaluation of Treatment Fidelity Across 10 Years of Health Behavior Research
Belinda Borrelli , Deborah Sepinwall, Denise Ernst, Albert J Bellg, Susan Czajkowski, Rosemary Breger, Carol DeFrancesco, Chantal Levesque, Daryl L Sharp, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Barbara Resnick, Denise Orwig

A. Bellg, B. Borrelli, et al. (2004) previously developed a framework that consisted of strategies to enhance treatment fidelity of health behavior interventions. The present study used this framework to (a) develop a measure of treatment fidelity and (b) use the measure to evaluate treatment fidelity in articles published in 5 journals over 10 years. Three hundred forty-two articles met inclusion criteria; 22% reported strategies to maintain provider skills, 27% reported checking adherence to protocol, 35% reported using a treatment manual, 54% reported using none of these strategies, and 12% reported using all 3 strategies. The mean proportion adherence to treatment fidelity strategies was .55; 15.5% of articles achieved greater than or equal to .80. This tool may be useful for researchers, grant reviewers, and editors planning and evaluating trials.

The assessment, monitoring, and enhancement of treatment fidelity in public health clinical trials

Belinda Borrelli, PhD

Objectives: To discuss methods of preservation of treatment fidelity in health behavior change trials conducted in public health contexts.

Methods: The treatment fidelity framework provided by the National Institutes of Health’s Behavioral Change Consortium includes five domains of treatment fidelity (Study Design, Training, Delivery, Receipt, and Enactment). A measure of treatment fidelity was previously developed and validated using these categories.

Results: Strategies for assessment, monitoring, and enhancing treatment fidelity within each of the five treatment fidelity domains are discussed. The previously created measure of treatment fidelity is updated to include additional items on selecting providers, additional confounders, theory testing, and multicultural considerations.

Conclusions: Implementation of a treatment fidelity plan may require extra staff time and costs. However, the economic and scientific costs of lack of attention to treatmentfidelityarefargreaterthanthecostsof treatmentfidelityimplementation. Maintaining high levels of treatment fidelity with flexible adaptation according to setting, provider, and patient is the goal for public health trials.

Travel
Arrangements

Participants should arrange their own travel to the meeting. See below for travel times from hotel to nearby airports.

Travel

Ground Transportation

Distances and estimated travel times—without traffic—by car from the following airports to the hotel are provided for your reference:

DC Metro Airport	Distance to Hotel	Travel Time to Hotel	One-way Taxi Fare

Fares and travel times above are approximate and subject to change and can vary depending on traffic. All ride-share options are available at the local airports.

Parking: The Bethesdan offers onsite self-parking at the rate of $35.00.

Local Area
Information

Map of restaurants in the area within walking distance from the hotel

Local Area Information

Questions?

The Roybal Coordinating Center
The Roybal Coordinating Center (PI: Karina Davidson) will be hosting the Roybal Annual Meeting.

For any questions related to meeting content, please contact:
Nicole Donoghue • nmoodhe@northwell.edu • 516-359-2571

Rose Li and Associates, Inc.
Rose Li and Associates, Inc. (RLA), under contract with the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is pleased to provide logistical support.

For any logistical support, please contact:
Stephanie Tiller • stephanie.tiller@roseliassociates.com • 240-552-9759

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2024 Roybal Annual Meeting

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Speakers

Resources for the Annual Meeting

Travel Arrangements

Ground Transportation

Local Area Information

Questions?

The Roybal Coordinating Center The Roybal Coordinating Center (PI: Karina Davidson) will be hosting the Roybal Annual Meeting.

For any questions related to meeting content, please contact: Nicole Donoghue • nmoodhe@northwell.edu • 516-359-2571

Rose Li and Associates, Inc. Rose Li and Associates, Inc. (RLA), under contract with the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is pleased to provide logistical support.

For any logistical support, please contact: Stephanie Tiller • stephanie.tiller@roseliassociates.com • 240-552-9759

Hotel
Accommodations

Travel
Arrangements

Local Area
Information

The Roybal Coordinating Center
The Roybal Coordinating Center (PI: Karina Davidson) will be hosting the Roybal Annual Meeting.

For any questions related to meeting content, please contact:
Nicole Donoghue • nmoodhe@northwell.edu • 516-359-2571

Rose Li and Associates, Inc.
Rose Li and Associates, Inc. (RLA), under contract with the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is pleased to provide logistical support.

For any logistical support, please contact:
Stephanie Tiller • stephanie.tiller@roseliassociates.com • 240-552-9759