Research Grand Rounds Presents: “Distance-based care following clinical evaluation at the War Related Illness & Injury Study Center: A telehealth approach to the promotion of health behaviors for Veterans.”
Sponsor: MHRI and GHUCCTS
Time: 12 - 1:30 PM (lunch provided at 1 PM)
Location: MedStar Washington Hospital Center, 6th Floor, CTEC Auditorium, 110 Irving Street NW, Washington DC 20010
Speaker(s): Matthew Reinhard, PsyD & Michelle E Costanzia, PhD
Dr. Reinhard is director of the War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) at the Washington DC VA Medical Center and Associate Professor Psychiatry at Georgetown. Under his leadership, the WRIISC translates observations from clinical care to drive rigorous mechanistic and interventional investigator-initiated and collaborative research, focused primarily on clinical neurocognitive assessment and treatment of Postraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). In turn, his research, funded by grants from the NIH, VA, and DoD aims to transform diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.
Dr. Costanzo is the Co-PI with Dr. Reinhard on a CTSA GHUCCTS funded pilot study that aims to harness new technologies and distance-bridging approaches to improve executive function by promoting health behaviors in Veterans enrolled in the WRIISC. As a research neuroscientist at the WRIISC, she hopes that providing a brain-based functional explanation for encouraging behavioral change will improve patient adherence to the telehealth intervention. This interest builds on her military-relevant research that has utilized psychophysiology and neuroimaging to examine PTSD and mild TBI during fear conditioning, combat-related virtual reality, affective stroop, and telemedicine to reveal insight into the etiology of persistent symptoms associated with deployment. The goal of these efforts is to explore distance-based programs such as integrative health coaching, wearable biosensor technology and app-based symptom assessments to augment clinical recommendations in order to improve self-care and symptom management. They will share their research in a talk entitled, “Distance-based care following clinical evaluation at the War Related Illness & Injury Study Center: A telehealth approach to the promotion of health behaviors for Veterans”
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