Principal Investigator
Lindsay Mayberry, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine & Public Health
Director, Effective Health Communication Core
Center for Health Behavior and Health Education
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Mayberry is a family and community psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine & Public Health in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a core faculty member in Vanderbilt’s Center for Diabetes Translation Research, the Center for Health Behavior and Health Education, the Center for Effective Health Communication, and the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research. Her research focuses on family involvement and technology as mechanisms to support and sustain health behavior change and self-care behaviors among adults with chronic illness. Her long-term research goals are to develop feasible and sustainable family interventions for adults with diabetes to improve health outcomes in patients and their family members, and to find innovative ways to translate these interventions into regular care in community health clinics.
Co-Investigators
James Aikens, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Aikens is trained as a Health Psychologist and is currently a Professor of Family Medicine at University of Michigan Medical School. He has 25 years’ research experience in the improvement of chronic illness self-management.
Tom A. Elasy, MD, MPH
Ann and Roscoe R. Robinson Professor of Medicine
Dr. Elasy is a practicing physician, the Director of the NIDDK Center for Diabetes Translation Research and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Elasy has led numerous clinical trials in type 2 diabetes (T2D) and brings expertise in identifying and recruiting adults with T2D and a vast knowledge of diabetes clinical care.
Robert Greevy, Jr, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Dr. Greevy is a biostatistician with extensive expertise in randomized controlled trial evaluation in T2D and use of electronic health record (EHR) data for recruitment.
Lyndsay Nelson, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Nelson is a social/health psychologist with expertise in experimental and translational health psychology. She brings expertise in user-centered design to sustain engagement, iterative usability testing for technology-delivered interventions in T2D and implementation/scalability of mHealth interventions.
Ruth Wolever, PhD
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Dr. Wolever is a clinical health psychologist and director of health coaching at Vanderbilt. She has led coaching intervention studies in numerous chronic disease contexts, including type 2 diabetes.