May 15, 2024, 3:00 p.m. ET
March 13, 2024, 11-1 p.m.
Society of Behavioral Medicine 2024 Annual Meeting
Description
Pre-Conference Course 8: An A to Z and not just “K:” Considerations for Applying the Multiphase Optimization Strategy in Your Career Development Award
Interest in optimizing and improving the uptake of multicomponent interventions has skyrocketed in recent years, particularly among early career scientists. One framework for doing so is the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST). MOST is an innovative, iterative 3-phase framework that emphasizes careful management of research resources and ongoing improvement of a new or existing intervention. The ultimate goal of MOST is to identify an intervention that is not only effective, but also efficient, affordable, and scalable. While the engineering-inspired MOST is not new to behavioral and biobehavioral sciences, it is not standard in most scientific training, and many early career investigators struggle to successfully apply the framework in their grant submissions. MOST has the potential to set early career scientists up for success by guiding pilot work to scalable intervention development, optimization, and evaluation in a strategic and economic fashion. But how does one actually apply the MOST framework in a career development award application? This course is designed for attendees who are considering, actively planning, or preparing to conduct an optimization career development project. We will provide a brief overview of MOST using the phases of MOST (i.e., preparation, optimization, and evaluation) to frame the substantive elements of the course. A substantial amount of time will be devoted to the discussion of building and incorporating MOST in the writing of the candidate background, training plan, and research strategy sections of career development awards. We will cover practical skills, strategies, and tools for building mentorship teams, identifying training opportunities, and developing effective conceptual models. We will discuss optimization design considerations from the preparation through evaluation phases in the context of career development awards, highlighting issues around timeline, optimization criteria, randomization and management of experimental conditions, and analysis of data. Finally, we will discuss incorporating feedback and MOST-related grantsmanship. Throughout the session, we will share the practicalities and challenges of career development awards and MOST phase-specific activities with case exemplars from our presenters who currently have or have completed career development awards with optimization trials. Ample time will be allotted for open discussion and problem-solving followed by small groups led by the presenters for more individualized feedback. Attendees will be given a handout with the PowerPoint slides and a list of articles containing additional information.
SBM student and transitional member attendees of this course may be reimbursed 100% of the course fee and other attendees may be reimbursed 75% of the course fee, pending grant underwriting from the National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention.
Presenter
Kate Guastaferro, PhD
Associate Director, cadio
Assistant Professor,
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
School of Global Public Health
New York University
Rachel Wells
Shena Gazaway
Kate Merrill
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