Friday, January 10, 2025 from 9-10am EST
Dr. Alexandra Psihogios. Dr. Psihogios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University in the Feinberg School of Medicine.
Talk Title: Enhancing Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Care through Community-Engaged Digital Health: Oral Chemotherapy Adherence as an Example
Talk Abstract: In this presentation, Dr. Alex Psihogios of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine will share digital health research focused on promoting oral chemotherapy adherence among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer. Dr. Psihogios will review how AYA input and community partnerships shaped two emerging digital interventions. The first intervention is an app-based, just-in-time adaptive mobile intervention called “ADAPTS”. The second intervention aims to deliver adherence support within an information ecosystem that AYAs already use for cancer—social media. As part of this line of work, Dr. Psihogios collaborates closely with a Community Advisory Board of YA survivors who are “social media influencers” to develop engaging cancer health messages with broad reach. She will share preliminary results from a pilot study testing this social media-enabled intervention and discuss how her team plans to generalize this partnership to address other disparities that AYAs with cancer face (e.g., unmet mental health needs, low survivorship care utilization).