Team
CARRII Native was developed at the University of Virginia in the Behavioral Health and Technology Laboratory. The research team is composed of a diverse set of individuals, including a group of psychologists who have been using Motivational Interviewing to reduce women’s health risks for many years, and who have developed other Internet interventions.
Team members include:
Creators:
Dr. Karen Ingersoll is a clinical health psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She has been studying how to help women change the behaviors related to alcohol-exposed pregnancy risk since 1997. She was one of the original Principal Investigators on the award-winning CDC-funded Project CHOICES, and completed a series of subsequent studies funded by NIAAA on reducing alcohol-exposed pregnancy risk. Dr. Ingersoll has 20 years of experience as a clinical psychologist and behavioral scientist, developing and evaluating interventions for people with risky habits and medical concerns. She is an internationally recognized expert on Motivational Interviewing (MI), and MI serves as a foundation of her clinical work, teaching, and clinical research interventions. She has received awards for funding projects from NIMH, NIDA, and NIAAA as a Principal Investigator since 1997, and serves as a co-investigator on numerous other projects. Dr. Ingersoll is interested in using technology to expand the reach of efficacious interventions and leads projects in the mHealth and eHealth areas, including the current CARRII project. She is a coauthor on the Hogrefe Press book, Women and Drinking: Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies.
Dr. Ritterband is the Jean and Ronald Butcher Eminent Scholars Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Behavioral Health and Technology. He has served as Principal Investigator on a number of National Institutes of Health grants focused on SHUTi. With degrees in clinical psychology and computer technology, Dr. Ritterband specializes in the development and testing of behaviorally-based digital health interventions. Over the past two decades, Dr. Ritterband has established himself as one of the leading researchers in Internet health interventions. He has been a Principal or Co-Investigator on large research projects funded by multiple institutes of the National Institutes of Health; the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute; the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia); National Science Foundation; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Danish Cancer Council, Norwegian Institute of Public Health; the American Diabetes Association; and various US State and commercial entities. In 2004, he co-founded the International Society for Research on Internet interventions which is the leading international organization focused on Internet intervention research. Dr. Ritterband is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and a past editor of the journals Health Psychology and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. He has given numerous talks nationally and internationally on the use of the Internet in psychological research and clinical practice. Dr. Ritterband is also a co-founder of BeHealth Solutions, LLC, a company dedicated to increasing public access to evidence-based Internet delivered health interventions.
Instructional Designer:
Dr. Michelle Hilgart is an experienced instructional designer and project manager and has been creating e-learning and Internet interventions at the University of Virginia since 2002. Prior to working with Behavioral Health and Technology, she worked at the University of Virginia Department of Public Health Sciences, where she developed e-health education programs. She has developed web-based education for adults with cancer funded by ASIA; created interactive learning modules for brain tumor patients through UVa's Neuro-Oncology Center; and developed Pressure Ulcer Prevention education for adults with spinal cord injury funded by Paralyzed Veterans of America. In Behavioral Health and Technology, Dr. Hilgart has contributed in the areas of instructional strategy application, program content development, revision, and optimization.
Study Coordinator:
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Project Coordinator:
- Christina Frederick
Software Developers:
- Ian Terrell
- Gabe Heath
- Thor Page
Student Intern:
- Sarah?
The development and testing of this program was supported by Grant R33 from the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the University of Virginia, the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, or the National Institutes of Health.