The Charles J. and Margaret Roberts Professor of Preventive Medicine
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Powell is the Charles J. and Margaret Roberts Professor of Preventive Medicine, Medicine, Behavioral Sciences, and Pharmacology in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She is internationally recognized as an expert in the design and conduct of behavioral randomized clinical trials. She has been a past Principal Investigator of 5 major randomized behavioral trials, the Principal Investigator of an NHLBI-sponsored P50 center aimed at developing and testing multi-level behavioral treatments to reduce cardiopulmonary disparities, and the Principal Investigator of the Chicago site of the NHLBI-sponsored Obesity-Related Behavioral Intervention Trials (ORBIT) network. The Chicago ORBIT site was aimed at developing a multi-component, multi-level lifestyle treatment to prevent the menopause-related progression of visceral fat in mid-life women. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a $10.7 million multi-site behavioral clinical trial aimed at determining whether a lifestyle intervention can promote a sustained 2-year remission of the metabolic syndrome. She was the Director of the OBSSR-sponsored Workshop “Translating Ideas into Interventions: The Process of Developing Health-Related Behavioral Interventions,” Director of the OBSSR-sponsored Workshop on “Controversies in Behavioral Randomized Clinical Trials,” and participant in the NIH-NCAAM “Workshop on Control Groups.” She is a founding faculty member of the NIH/OBSSR-sponsored Summer Institute for Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions (since 1/01), and served as a Co-Director of the Institute (1/08-7/13). In that capacity, she has trained approximately 800 Fellows. She is Co-Director of the ORBIT Institute aimed at training in the early development of behavioral interventions to improve chronic diseases, funded by NCI and currently in its first year. She has or currently mentors approximately 65 junior faculty in or outside of her Department in behavioral intervention development and behavioral clinical trial methodology. She has been invited to present on behavioral trial methodology at the annual meetings of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, American Psychosomatic Society, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, the Society for Clinical Trials, and the International Society for Behavioral Medicine. She was an invited member of the NIH National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) (2011-2015). She was a Fellow, at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences (2015-2016). She is co-developer of the ORBIT model for behavioral intervention development. Along with her co-authors, Ken Freedland and Peter Kaufmann, she published a book on the unique methodological challenges posed by clinical trials involving behavioral interventions entitled “Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Diseases. Scientific Foundations” (Springer, 2021).
AMASS 2 - The ORBIT Model for Developing and Testing Health Related Behavioral Interventions
Thursday, November 16, 2023
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
