Congratulations to our Osher Center for Integrative Health Pilot Research Grant Program awardees! Read on to learn more about their projects.
Rose McKeon Olson, MD, MPH
Associate Physician, Associate Scientist , Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Resona: A Self-Directed Wearable App for PTSD.
“This project supports the development and usability testing of Resona – a novel, self-guided mobile intervention that integrates mindfulness, narrative processing, and wearable monitoring. It is designed to support trauma recovery among adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a population that remains underserved by traditional care models.”
Sara Lazar, PhD
Investigator, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assessing MB-Spirit: A Novel Intervention for Promoting Spiritual Development and Psychological Well-Being.
“We will evaluate a novel intervention, Mindfulness-Based Spirituality (MB-Spirit), which combines mindfulness meditation with didactic content and experiential exercises to explicitly foster character strengths, virtue, and spiritual experiences.”
Christina Luberto, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Adapting Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Target Fear of Recurrence and Physical Activity in SCAD Survivors: A nation-wide Pilot RCT.
“The goal of the proposed study is to refine our adaptation of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for cardiac event survivors (called UpBeat-MBCT) to target SCAD (Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection) and test the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention in a pilot RCT in collaboration with the national non-profit, SCAD Alliance.”
Learn more about our Pilot Research Grant Program.