Lourah Kelly

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Congrats to Liz, UConn medical student and CHEARR trainee, on winning the Certificate of Excellence at the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Symposium for her research on patient-centered perspectives on treatment success for people who take medications for opioid use disorder 🌟

CHEARR post-doctoral fellow, Bridget, presents her project 'Functional Impairment in Daily Living during Long-Term Remission from Substance Use Disorders' at UConn Health's post-doc research day!

CHEARR and JEAP Investigators are guest editing a special issue of Emerging Adulthood on recovery from substance use disorders. Submit your manuscripts by 3/1/26. Details: https://tinyurl.com/msx3r5rv

📆 Mark your calendars!
The JEAP Initiative and the Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR) are co-sponsoring a free 90-minute interactive virtual forum on February 18th focused on recovery capital.
Learn more and register: www.jeapinitiative.org/ea-recovery-...

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Sharon A. Johnson!

Learn more about Dr. Johnson: www.wpi.edu/people/facul...

#MeetTheFaculty #ImplementationScience #HealthSystemsEngineering #EmergencyMedicine #ClinicalDecisionSupport #CAPES #WPI

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Feifan Liu!

Learn more about Dr. Liu: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/1550...

#MeetTheFaculty #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #HealthInformatics #ClinicalDecisionSupport #SuicidePrevention #CAPES

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Jung Ae Lee!

Learn more about Dr. Lee: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/2726...

#MeetTheFaculty #Biostatistics #ImplementationScience #HealthData #ClinicalResearch #CAPES #UMassChan

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Martin Reznek!

Learn more about Dr. Reznek: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/130147

#MeetTheFaculty #EmergencyMedicine #MedicalEducation #ImplementationScience #QualityImprovement #ClinicalLeadership #CAPES #UMassChan

📣 1 month away!

Join CAPES for a virtual webinar on Suicide Prevention Implementation Across Diverse Healthcare Settings using the ECHO Model, featuring lessons from AFSP and AAP.

🗓 Feb 18 | 2–3 PM ET | Zoom
🔗 Register: arcsapps.umassmed.edu/redcap/surve...

AI chatbots & wellness apps are increasingly used for mental health—but they’re not a substitute for evidence-based care.

The American Psychological Association released a new Health Advisory outlining risks, limits & safeguards clinicians and consumers should know.

🔗 www.apa.org/topics/artif...

CAPES Event Alert! Hosted by the DanCE and EDU Units

Suicide Prevention Implementation Across Diverse Healthcare Settings Using the ECHO Model: Lessons from the American Foundation on Suicide Prevention and American Academy of Pediatrics

Register: arcsapps.umassmed.edu/redcap/surve...

🎥 Recordings from the CAPES Innovation Summit are now available!

Organized with support from EDC, the Summit explored how the Zero Suicide Framework advances CAPES technologies and evidence-based suicide care, featuring talks by Dr. Boudreaux, Dr. Angerhofer, Dr. Michael & T’Leah McQuade.

📰 The latest CAPES Quarterly Newsletter is out! Catch up on events, faculty highlights, and innovations in suicide prevention.

📬 Subscribe: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/1fDUcne/s...

✨ Read more: umassmed.edu/capes/news/

#CAPES #SuicidePrevention #ResearchInnovation

🧠 CAPES Director Dr. Edwin Boudreaux discusses suicide risk among older men in Science for Living.

“We have effective treatments and prevention strategies… There’s hope.”

📰 Read: bit.ly/3YOjhZb

📬 More CAPES news: umassmed.edu/capes/news/

#CAPES #SuicidePrevention #MensHealth

🌟 CAPES faculty Dr. Martha Zimmermann is partnering with Candlelit Care to test a mobile app supporting Black mothers at risk for perinatal mood & anxiety disorders.

📰 Read more: www.umassmed.edu/news/news-ar...

#FacultySpotlight #PerinatalMentalHealth #HealthEquity #DigitalHealth #CAPES

🌟 Marlborough ED is now live on the Jaspr study!

“I love this app — this is genius.”

We’re excited to expand access to digital, evidence-based suicide care.
Thanks to @JasprHealth + our Marlborough partners for making this possible.

#CAPES #Jaspr #SuicidePrevention

New resource for clinicians: Effective Suicide Care — a clear, research-based guide on what works to reduce suicide risk.

Reviewed by CAPES faculty Lourah Kelly, Ed Boudreaux & Rachel Davis-Martin.

🔗 Brief: online.fliphtml5.com/ucxxu/xxkh/#...

🔗 More resources: www.umassmed.edu/capes/clinic...

Dr. Ed Boudreaux, CAPES Director, presented new Jaspr implementation findings at IASR/AFSP—showing what supports successful digital suicide care in EDs. Poster here ⬇️

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Why not a Barbie Themed Beach In?

Science used to be my safe space. But when I spiraled into depression, I quit my Ph.D. The author had been using research “as a way of trying to control the uncontrollable”

Ultimately, failing in academia was the greatest relief I ever experienced

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Forced abstinence has been shown repeatedly to be worse (ie harms and kills people at higher rates) than not intervening in people’s substance use at all. And it doesn’t even reduce drug use.

🚨HOT TAKE ALERT🚨

If you have built your scientific career off federal funding, you can organize a teach in at your favorite park or brewery to tell the public how you spend their tax dollars.

AND why we should INCREASE federal research and development $$$.

It’s not rocket science…or maybe it is?

She Didn't "Pick Wrong". Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men. The scale of the risk means we need to stop blaming women for "ignoring red flags" when men turn out to be controlling and abusive partners

Read my new FREE article "She Didn't 'Pick Wrong'. Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/dremmaka...

It's time to stop blaming women for their "bad choices" in "picking abusive men".

#domesticviolence

True in the US as well as the UK. We live in a talent economy. Today universities are the means of production.

Also, both the humanities and science create long-term economic advantages to go along with their clear short-term economic benefits.

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How to Get Help for Myself — CAPES CAPES does not provide direct mental health services. Below are local and national resources that you might find helpful. Not all resources may be the best fit for you right now; you are the expert…

Get tips and resources from CAPES including crisis hotlines and textlines, warmlines, how to find a therapist, and stories of lived experience and peer led supports on our website www.umassmed.edu/capes/lookin...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month!

Family support is an important part of recovery. If you're looking for organizations that can help you support a family member, see our 'How to Get Help for Someone Else' section of our website.

www.umassmed.edu/capes/lookin...

One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.