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  • INVESTIGATOR SPOTLIGHT: STEPHANIE BREWER

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    Stephanie is a postdoctoral research fellow in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her focus is in developing school-based interventions. Her unique approach to developing interventions is to target barriers related to ease of implementation, contextual relevance, and cultural responsiveness.  Currently Dr. Brewer is working to explore how Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) can be adapted to fit in a school setting. She and her team are conducting interviews with…

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  • “How to Design Conversations” Facilitation Lab

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    Daniel Stillman of The Conversation Factory led UW ALACRITY Center members and the larger Seattle #DesignThinking community in a workshop created to challenge your assumptions of how workshops should be run and hone skills to improve the quality of conversations.  Participants ran through several exercises to practice Daniel’s approach to facilitation and had a lot…

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  • Ben Greer Award Will Help Fund Proof-of Concept for Treatment of Depression in Urban and Rural Cancer Centers 

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    Gary and Amy, recipients of an R03, have been leading research around depression care in rural and urban cancer centers- applying a human-centered design process to discover contextual constraints and gather requirements for the design and development of a digital platform to support the delivery of Collaborative Care Management (CoCM) for depression. Their work will be part of a…

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  • Pre-SIRC Workshop

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    Prior to the 5th Biennial Society for Implementation Research Conference (SIRC) UWAC sponsored a one day workshop to discuss the intersection of Implementation Science and Human/User Centered Design.  Attendees from both fields came together to hear presentations by Sarah Birken, Madhu Reddy, and Alex Dopp and participate in activities to identify opportunities to integrate implementation science and HCD in order to…

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  • UWAC meets with Dartington Service Design Lab

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    Aaron Lyon recently met with Tim Hobbs and Maria Portugal from the Dartington Service Design Lab and Nick Axford (Plymouth University and Senior Lab Associate) at the European Society for Prevention Research conference in Ghent  #EUSPR19. Dartington Service Design Lab is another great organization working at the intersection of evidence-informed practice and user-centered design across the pond,…

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  • The National Institute of Mental Health Highlights ALACRITY Centers

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    NIMH shined a spotlight on ALACRITY Centers in their recent Science News, sharing how Mental Health Research Centers Forge Collaborations with ALACRITY. The NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research sponsored a 2-day meeting mid-July in Bethesda, MD, where eight ALACRITY Center Directors shared research strategies, resources, and know-how on ways their centers are organizing themselves to conduct their research. The…

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  • Aaron Lyon will be presenting at the 12th Annual Conference on Science of Dissemination and Implementation

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    Methods Core co-lead with the UW ALACRITY, Aaron Lyon, Ph.D., has been selected to present at the 12th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation. His abstract is focused on Advancing the science of intervention adaptation: Integrating human-centered design and implementation science in the UW ALACRITY Center. He is scheduled to present in…

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  • Gary Hsieh receives Fulbright award to research and teach in Taiwan

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    Gary Hsieh, Co-P.I. for the ALACRITY pilot “Using Human Centered Design for Technology-Enabled Behavioral Treatment of Depression in Urban and Rural Cancer Centers” recently received a Fulbright Scholar grant. Hsieh will be a visiting professor at the 國立清華大學National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan for the 2019-2020 academic year, where he will collaborate with students and faculty on theory-driven behavior…

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