Ahonkhai Attends mHealth Training Institute at UCLA
Aima Ahonkhai, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and physician at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, attended the 2018 mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) at UCLA in July. The competitive program selects scholars based on their interest in multidisciplinary team science and mobile technologies.
The week-long, immersive training provides opportunities to establish collaborative research networks for robust mentoring among the core group of academic, industry and government thought leaders who are chosen for their expertise in mHealth.
"After a week of intensive training, I am more familiar with a wider range of novel mHealth strategies and how they can be leveraged along with novel study design to support chronic disease management," said Ahonkhai.
Todd Giorgio, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt School of Engineering, also was selected to attend. Ahonkhai and Giorgio worked on the same team, and with other group members, they developed a preliminary proposal to use novel biosensor and drug detection technology to study drivers of adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among young men who have sex with men in Tennessee.
