Testing the effectiveness of a web-based mobile health “clinician extender” application to improve contraceptive decision-making (K.P. Tebb, PhD, & F. Rodriguez, MA & L. Pollack, PhD, UCSF; S.L. Trieu, DrPH, L. Hwang, MD, & M. Puffer, MPA, UCLA; S. Adams, Phd, E. Ozer, PhD & CD Brindis, DrPH, UCSF) Health-E You/Salud iTu is a web-based mobile health application that aims…
Behavioral/Emotional Screening Tool for clinical settings (E. Ozer, PhD, Sara Buckelew, MD, Veronika Mesheriakova, UCSF) Health-e-Check, originally developed by Ozer and colleagues through AHRQ funding, is being updated with the goal of streamlining integration into the electronic medical record to serve as a prototype for other LEAH projects and beyond. Health e-Check provides a screening report to adolescent providers to…
AYAH-RN Workshop, March 8, 2019, “Clinic-Based Strategies for Engaging Parents in Adolescent Health Promotion.” View the presentation slides here. The Adolescent and Young Adult Health Research Network (AYAH-RN) is holding a workshop at the SAHM 2019 Annual Meeting— “Psychological Well-Being: International Transcultural Perspectives.” The workshop will feature presentations by the following faculty and partners: Dr. Elizabeth Ozer, AYAH-RN Project Director Dr. Carol Ford, Children’s…
December 13th, 2018 INSPIRE builds on gaming techniques to create an environment in which teens participate in unfolding narratives that address peer pressure, social norms, and alternative consequences of alcohol use. Players adopt the role of a teenage protagonist who “relives” a high-school get-together involving alcohol, with virtual characters who model a range of health behaviors. Outcomes in the story line are actively shaped…
Review article on Clinical Preventive Services. (Harris SK, Aalsma MC, Weitzman ER, et al. Research on clinical preventive services for adolescents and young adults: Where are we and where do we need to go? J Adolesc Health. 2017; 60(3): 249-60.) AYAH-Research Network partners authored a review article on AYA clinical preventive services (CPS), examining evidence for increasing access to CPS,…
Technology as clinician extender in the delivery of clinical preventive services (C. Wong, MD, Duke U; E. Weitzman PhD & S. Harris, PhD BCH/HU; E. Ozer, PhD, UCSF) Led by Dr. Wong, this effort expands on the AYAH-RN’s review article on developmental science and a workshop presented at the 2017 SAHM meeting. Researchers published this work in a special supplement…
Developing models of care for transgender youth (Guss CE, Inwards-Breland D, Ozer E, Vance S. Experiences with Querying Gender Identity across Seven Adolescent Medicine Sites. Journal of Adolescent Health. Published on-line, August 2018.) The AYAH-RN continues to advance our project on care for transgender youth, a key emerging issue. This study, led by Carly Guss, MD (BCH), David Breland, MD…
Ron Dahl, MD from the Center on the Developing Adolescent presented at the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) Annual Meeting on March 9, 2016. Read more below about this presentation. Title: Adolescent Brain Development in Context: Implications for Health, Education, and Social Policy. Description: We are in the midst of an explosion of advances in several areas of…
The Adolescent and Young Adult Health Research Network (AYAH-RN) held a workshop at the SAHM 2017 Annual Meeting— “Cultivating Connections: The Importance of Relationships in Adolescent and Young Adult Health.” AYAH-RN Workshop, March 8, 2017, “USING TECHNOLOGY TO EXTEND CLINICIANS’ PREVENTIVE REACH.” The Network is pleased to share presentations given by our staff and partners. Dr. Ozer, AYAH-RN Project Director,presented on…
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