CAPES Suicide Prevention

Ever wondered what to do when the Institutional Review Board (IRB) says "no" to your recruitment plan? Drs. Camille Nebeker, Barton Palmer, Edwin Boudreaux Mhd Rahmoun, M.D. Denise Dunlap Sarah Arias, and Gwyneth E. Gould of the CAPES ELSI Unit and Jaspr Health teams worked with our UMass Chan Medical School IRB to unpack the ethics of recruiting patients admitted to the emergency department to participate in #suicideprevention #research. This article describes the process of evaluating possible risks to patients who were assigned to a hallway bed and eligible to participate in a #digitalhealth research study. Threats to patient privacy were evaluated and risk mitigation strategies explored and tested. The IRB reviewed this evidence and granted approval for patients to be recruited while being treated in hallway beds, with safety and confidentiality procedures in place. Suicide is a leading cause of death in the US and suicide prevention research is needed. It's important for researchers to work with their IRB to advance important health research. Check out the publication here: https://buff.ly/40OHJu9

Our Director Dr. Boudreaux is presenting at the Northwestern University, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) seminar series titled "Using Jaspr to Improve Suicide Related Care in the Emergency Department" Register for free here: https://buff.ly/pzQu7ic #seminar #publichealth #suicideprevention #emergencymedicine #technology

Our Director Dr. Boudreaux is presenting at the Northwestern University, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) seminar series titled "Using Jaspr to Improve Suicide Related Care in the Emergency Department" Register for free here: https://buff.ly/pzQu7ic #seminar #publichealth #suicideprevention #emergencymedicine #technology

Our Director Dr. Boudreaux is presenting at the Northwestern University, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) seminar series titled "Using Jaspr to Improve Suicide Related Care in the Emergency Department" Register for free here: https://buff.ly/pzQu7ic #seminar #publichealth #suicideprevention #emergencymedicine #technology

Check out our latest CAPES Newsletter, featuring a letter from our Director, Dr. Boudreaux, two new pilot projects awarded to Dr. Zimmermann and Dr. Dixon-Gordon, new research including a paper on the ethics of recruiting patients treated in the hallways of the emergency department, and our new social media account on Bluesky! See our website for our current and past newsletters and to sign up for the newsletter listserv for more updates on CAPES! https://buff.ly/nqAcSaG

CAPES Lived Experience Advisory Board Member Erin Goodman and Director Dr. Edwin Boudreaux are featured in a video by the Pew Trusts focused on how suicide screening, assessment, and interventions can help people recover from suicide attempts. Our research coordinator Gwyneth E. Gould and Health Coach Scott Pelletier CTTS-M are also featured, showing how to use tablet-based screening, assessment, and intervention tools, like Jaspr. Check out the video here: https://buff.ly/3XlvF2r Check out our new Lived Experience Advisory Board page to learn more about Erin Goodman and the rest of our board members https://buff.ly/4gZYZCv Learn more about Jaspr and all our CAPES Projects here: https://buff.ly/3U6wwCt

CAPES Lived Experience Advisory Board Member Erin Goodman and Director Dr. Edwin Boudreaux are featured in a video by the Pew Trusts focused on how suicide screening, assessment, and interventions can help people recover from suicide attempts. Our research coordinator Gwyneth E. Gould and Health Coach Scott Pelletier CTTS-M are also featured, showing how to use tablet-based screening, assessment, and intervention tools, like Jaspr. Check out the video here: https://buff.ly/3XlvF2r Check out our new Lived Experience Advisory Board page to learn more about Erin Goodman and the rest of our board members https://buff.ly/4gZYZCv Learn more about Jaspr and all our CAPES Projects here: https://buff.ly/3U6wwCt

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Our colleagues at Worcester Polytechnic Institute invite you to the 8th Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Central MA Event on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025 titled "AI and the Future of Work" from 10AM-1PM. This in person event provides an opportunity to hear about the latest Data Science and AI-related research in a number of domains, and to connect with others in the field. This conference is FREE, but registration is limited. Register now using the link below to save your spot! Sharing especially with our WPI Faculty and Scholars Drs. Elke Rundensteiner, Bengisu Tulu, Ben Nephew, Emmanuel Agu, Soussan Djamasbi, Sharon Johnson, Richard Lopez, Ph.D. and Nicholas Josselyn WPI Graduate & Professional Studies Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center at WPI All genders are invited to attend. Please register on Eventbrite here. https://buff.ly/4gOTwP5 For more event related details, visit the WIDS website https://buff.ly/43lyXGX

On today's Meet the CAPES Faculty, we introduce Dr. Rundensteiner! Dr. Rundensteiner is the William Smith Dean's Professor, Computer Science and Founding Head of Data Science and of Artificial Intelligence at WPI. She is a Co-Lead of the LEMURS project within CAPES with Dr. Katie Dixon-Gordon. She is passionate about applying innovative data-driven technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of solving mental-health illnesses in healthcare settings. She has successfully led more than 55 extramural studies with well over $20 million in funding focused on data-intensive technology development for challenging data-centric application problems from mental health screening, adverse event detection, data modeling of infection spread, data integration for clinical decision making, machine learning for screening for ailments, and AI for electronic health record data. Specific to CAPES, she has developed mental health screening solutions using Artificial Intelligence and deep learning that leverage smartphone data including voice, text messages, GPS, and social media. Her research resulted in the development of the EMU screening app, which is used within LEMURS. EMU will be deployed and studied for its accelerated adoption as evidence-based screening solution of suicide ideation and behavior risk to support vulnerable communities in particular students on a college campus. Read more about Dr. Rundensteiner at her WPI faculty page https://buff.ly/4eCn6qp