Dr. Shetty is a Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. An early mover in the mHealth space, he works on point of care technologies to facilitate informed clinical decision making and population health management. His research program has been funded continuously by NIH since 1993. Beyond his research and clinical roles, he is deeply involved in academic governance, having served as Chair of the UCLA Academic Senate, as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, and a member of UCLA’s central Committee on Academic Personnel that makes the final tenure and promotion recommendations. Dr. Shetty has been a core faculty of the NIH’s mHealth Training Institutes since its inception in 2011 and also directs the training core of the Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge.

Dr. Shetty is a Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. An early mover in the mHealth space, he works on point of care technologies to facilitate informed clinical decision making and population health management. His research program has been funded continuously by NIH since 1993. Beyond his research and clinical roles, he is deeply involved in academic governance, having served as Chair of the UCLA Academic Senate, as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, and a member of UCLA’s central Committee on Academic Personnel that makes the final tenure and promotion recommendations. Dr. Shetty has been a core faculty of the NIH’s mHealth Training Institutes since its inception in 2011 and also directs the training core of the Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge.

Donna Spruijt-Metz is Director of the USC mHealth Collaboratory at the University of Southern California’s Center for Economic and Social Research, and Professor of Research in Psychology and Preventive Medicine. Her research focuses on childhood obesity and mobile health technologies. In 2015, she received the Obesity Society’s eHealth/mHealth Pioneer Award for Excellence in the Field. Her main interests include using mobile technologies to develop data sets that combine sensor and self-report data that is continuous, temporally rich, contextualized. Using this data along with innovative modeling techniques, she wants to develop dynamic, contextualized mathematical models of health-related behavior. She was one of the first to undertake a just-in-time, adaptive intervention (JITAI) in youth, and envisions most or all interventions being JITAI in the future. She is PI of Virtual Sprouts, a virtual, multiplatform gardening game designed to change dietary knowledge and behavior and prevent obesity in minority youth. She also leads a new project, the Monitoring & Modeling Family Eating Dynamics (M2FED) project, funded by NSF She led an NSF/EU/NIH-funded workshop in Brussels on building new computationally-enabled theoretical models to support health behavior change and maintenance in 2012. This workshop led to several publications, and a host of new collaborations. In September, she led a follow-up NSF-funded international workshop in London. Her work meshes 21st century technologies with transdisciplinary metabolic, behavioral and environmental research in order to facilitate the development of dynamic, personalized, contextualized behavioral interventions that can be adapted on the fly.

Dr. Spring is a Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Public Health at Northwestern and Director of the Center for Behavior and Health - Institute for Public Health and Medicine. She also serves as Team Science Director for NUCATS, Northwestern’s CTSI, and Co-Program Leader for Cancer Prevention. Her research program focuses on the development and evaluation of technology supported interventions to promote healthy change in multiple chronic disease risk behaviors (particularly poor quality diet, overeating, physical inactivity, and smoking). She began conducting trials using connective mHealth technologies to promote healthy lifestyle change in the era when palm pilots were cutting edge technology. Current NIH- and American Heart Association (AHA)-funded mHealth studies by her group involve the use of wearables in the MD2K JITAI to prevent relapse to smoking, MOST factorial and SMART trials to treat obesity, and a cluster randomized trial to preserve and promote college student health. She is currently Chairperson of the NIH Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention standing study section, and her research has been funded continuously for more than 30 years. A past president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), she is a recipient of SBM’s Distinguished Research Mentor and Research to Practice Translation awards. A winner of The Obesity Society’s e-Health Pioneer Award, she is founding editor of Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research, and served as Chairperson of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Board of Scientific Affairs and AHA’s Behavior Change Committee and member of the APA’s Advisory Steering Committee to establish Practice Guidelines. For many years, she has served as faculty for the NIH Summer Training Institute on Behavioral Clinical Trials and NIH Training Institutes on Mobile Health. She is Principal Investigator of Northwestern’s NIH T32 Postdoctoral Training Program in Behavioral and Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer Prevention and Control and has been primary mentor for 22 individual mentored career development awards. Her NIH-funded learning modules on evidence-based practice (www.ebbp.org) and the science of team science (www.teamscience.net) are freely available online.