Danny Almirall: SMART designs, MAISY’s, and the Zen of giving it away

Today we talk with Danny Almirall from the University of Michigan's d3C center. We talk about how learning about prime numbers set Danny up for a lifetime of teaching people about math, statistics, and methods, the difference between efficacy, effectiveness, and implementation studies, what is a SMART trial, and how do SMART trials inform adaptive interventions, what are MAISYs, and we learn a little bit about Salsa the dance and just a tiny bit about Salsa the food.

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We mention the following papers:

Kevin’s paper on implementation science and quantitative methods

King, K. M., Pullmann, M. D., Lyon, A. R., Dorsey, S., & Lewis, C. C. (2019). Using implementation science to close the gap between the optimal and typical practice of quantitative methods in clinical science. Journal of abnormal psychology, 128(6), 547. (http://depts.washington.edu/risemh/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/King-et-al-2019-JAbnormal-1.pdf)

SMART designs:

Almirall, D., Nahum-Shani, I., Sherwood, N. E., & Murphy, S. A. (2014). Introduction to SMART designs for the development of adaptive interventions: with application to weight loss research. Translational behavioral medicine, 4(3), 260–274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-014-0265-0 

Beidas premortem paper:

Beidas, R. S., Dorsey, S., Lewis, C. C., Lyon, A. R., Powell, B. J., Purtle, J., ... & Lane-Fall, M. B. (2022). Promises and pitfalls in implementation science from the perspective of US-based researchers: learning from a pre-mortem. Implementation Science, 17(1), 55. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9375077/)

Danny recommends we check out:

Brian Weiner (https://globalhealth.washington.edu/faculty/bryan-weiner)

Susan Murphy, PhD. (http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~samurphy/ )

Danny’s Website: https://d3c.isr.umich.edu/, and https://twitter.com/d3_center