2025 Roybal Annual Meeting

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April 30-May 1

Location

Marriott Bethesda Downtown at Marriott HQ

Address

7707 Woodmont Avenue, 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 4:00 pm on April 29th and check-out is 12:00 pm on May 1st. Please view the hotel’s website for additional information about the amenities and surrounding attractions.

Speakers

Susan Michie, FMedSci, FAcSS, FBA, FSBM is Professor of Health Psychology, University College London, UK. She is Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change and co-Director of Behavioural Research-UK.

Professor Michie’s research focuses on human behaviour change in relation to health and the environment: how to understand it theoretically and apply theory and evidence to intervention and policy development, evaluation and implementation. Her research, collaborating with disciplines such as information science, environmental science, computer science and medicine, covers population, organisational and individual-level interventions. Examples include the Human Behaviour-Change Project and and the NIH-funded 5-year project "Advancing Prevention Research in Cancer through Ontology Tools" (APRICOT).

She has published >600 journal articles and several books, including the Behaviour Change Wheel: A Guide to Designing Interventions.

She is previous chair and current member of WHO’s Behavioural Insights and Sciences Technical Advisory Group and is part of the Behavioural Science Policy Research Unit advising the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care.

Oscar Gonzalez, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Psychology in the LL Thurstone Psychometric Lab at the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He obtained his PhD on Quantitative Research Methods from Arizona State University. His research interests are on psychological measurement, and how the measurement of constructs plays a role in screening procedures, understanding mechanisms of behavior change [via statistical mediation] and in prediction models [machine learning]. His work has appeared in high-impact journals, including Psychological Methods, Multivariate Behavior Research, Structural Equation Modeling, and Psychological Assessment. In 2020, he was inducted into the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology [SMEP], a 65-member elected society of quantitative methodologists and statisticians. He is currently an Editorial Fellow at Psychological Methods.

Jasper Smits, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. His research program aims to bring new intervention strategies for anxiety and related problems to the clinic. Applying a translational research method, Dr. Smits' research includes basic studies to identify and validate mechanisms of change and clinical studies that build upon basic studies by developing and validating novel targeted stand-alone or augmentation interventions. His work has broadened over the years to include the investigation of anxiety vulnerability processes and their intervention in other significant public health problems, most notably smoking. He has been involved in over 25 federal, state, or industry-funded grants and published over 250 works.

Paschal Sheeran completed Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at University College Dublin and a PhD at the University of Sheffield, where he was also a faculty member for 20 years before moving to UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013 to experience sunshine. Paschal’s research program aims to understand the intention-behaviour ‘gap’, test the efficacy of if-then plans (implementation intentions) in promoting health behaviour change, appreciate the role of implicit influences on health actions, develop a self-regulation perspective on affect and behaviour, and undertake crucial tests of health behaviour theories. Despite modest progress with each of these aims, his research has attracted a number of grants, awards, and fellowships.

Dr. Nahum-Shani’s research focuses on conceptual and methodological issues related to constructing adaptive interventions, which, consistent with the goals of precision health, are designed to deliver support (or treatment) in a way that addresses the changing needs of individuals in clinical and community settings. Formally, an adaptive intervention is a protocol that specifies how dynamic (time-varying) information about the individual should be used in practice to decide whether and how to deliver support (or treatment). Of particular interest are just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs)—a special form of adaptive interventions that leverage digital technology (e.g., mobile and wearable devices) to address the rapidly changing needs of individuals in daily life. Dr. Nahum-Shani has recently pioneered the hybrid experimental design (HED), which enables investigators to empirically optimize the integration between human-delivered support that can be adapted on a slow timescale (e.g., monthly or weekly) and digital support that can be adapted on a much faster timescale (e.g., daily or every minute). She leads the Data-science for Dynamic Intervention Decision-making Center (d3c) at the University of Michigan. The d3c is an NIH/NIDA P50 Center of Excellence that serves as a vibrant environment for developing and disseminating methodologies for adapting and personalizing interventions.

Michael W. Otto, Ph.D., is Professor in the Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. He has had a major career focus on developing and validating new psychosocial treatments for mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders. This work includes a translational research agenda investigating brain-behavior relationships in therapeutic learning. Attention to principles underlying behavior-change failures led him to an additional focus on health-behavior promotion, including investigations of addictive behaviors, medication adherence, sleep, and exercise. Dr. Otto has over 25 years of continuous funding from NIH, and has published over 500 articles, chapters, and books spanning his research interests. He has been identified as a “top producer” in the clinical empirical literature, an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, and recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology award from the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 12 and the 2024 Outstanding Researcher award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. He is also recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for excellence in mentoring from the APA and the 2023 Toy Caldwell-Colbert Award for Distinguished Educator in Clinical Psychology. He also serves as founder of the Mechanistic Behavior Research Consortium and a member of the Exposure Therapy Consortium.

Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, is a Professor of Nursing and Health Policy and Scientific Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research addresses persistent behavior change challenges in public and global health. Using the techniques and frameworks of behavioral economics, Alison designs, test, and scales innovative interventions to prevent and mitigate infectious diseases. She is a recognized global expert in the area of vaccine acceptance, with a particular focus recently on COVID-19 vaccines. Alison also helped launch and serves as the Behavioural Design Lead for Indlela, a first-of-its kind nudge unit supporting innovations in HIV service delivery in South Africa. She co-chaired the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Consensus Committee on Behavioral Economics: Policy Impact and Future Directions in 2023.

Local Area
Information

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

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:
RoybalNIAcenters@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.

2025 Roybal Annual Meeting

Hotel Accommodations

Location

Address

7707 Woodmont Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814

Speakers

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: RoybalNIAcenters@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

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:
RoybalNIAcenters@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