Incoming Assistant Professor in Biomedical Data Science & Psychiatry
@Dartmouth
@DartmouthCTBH
| Using technology to understand, predict, and treat chronic pain
We're moving to
@dartmouth
! I am thrilled to share that I will start my lab as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the departments of Biomedical Data Science & Psychiatry within the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (
@DartmouthCTBH
) this fall. Cue Cabot happy tongue ~
Heart is full after a successful dissertation defense yesterday. It was really special to be able to celebrate in-person and virtually with so many mentors, friends, and family.
Lesson learned: Complaining on Twitter leads to notices of awards 1/1 times.
Thank you so much to everyone who supported me in this long and arduous process, especially an all-star mentorship team including
@drrodebaugh
,
@S_Haroutounian
,
@EricLenze2
,
@ExtenCara
& more 😊
Challenging my imposter syndrome to share my first lead author paper (with
@S_Haroutounian
&
@drrodebaugh
), which was just accepted for a special issue of Journal of Psychosomatic Research focused on time series methodology (thread ⬇️)
"Observing the sun’s position in the sky once a day versus every hour would produce vastly different profiles of change" (Koval et al., 2013)
*copies and pastes into discussion sections of EMA papers for rest of life*
Excited to share the final version of our paper, Feasibility and utility of idiographic models in the clinic: A pilot study!
cc
@MarilynPicciri1
,
@EmorieBeck
, [twitterless Jason], and
@drrodebaugh
1/4
10:46am: Cool, another year of PhD followed by internship. We got this.
10:48am: Maybe I'll apply for this postdoc ad??
10:50am: Maybe I'll go to industry???
10:51am: What's for lunch?
Periodic reminder that kindness in peer review goes a long way -- "This is one of the best examples of open science I have seen, and an example that others should follow" just made 6 years of hard work feel so very worth it ♥️
Not discussed --> lamented --> avoided it -->approached it --> made minor changes --> prayed to the almighty sun --> clicked heels together 3 times --> 14% ✨
On Friday I had a drink called “Exposure Therapy” at a favorite neighborhood cocktail bar & today that bar closed forever so don’t tell me behavior therapy never had any negative consequences
We won a thing! Thrilled that our project (Using Mobile Health Technology to Capture Physical, Functional and Psychosocial Features that Predict Recovery after Lumbar Fusion) is moving forward. This interdisciplinary collaboration is a dream come true 🥳
Congratulations to
@WUDeptMedicine
's own Rachita Navara, Michael Rich, Thomas Kannampallil, Albert M. Lai, Patrick G. Lyons, Karla T. Washington, and Patrick White and their teams!
BJC and WUSM announce winners of 2021-2022 Big Ideas Competition
Year 2 is here! So excited to share lots of dynamic data on emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological components of chronic pain in the coming months 🤗
🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨
Beyond thrilled to share the results of the first of many collaborations with the illustrious
@rwcarpenterphd
& faithful
@drrodebaugh
[it's my first day of teaching, working on my colorful adjectives]. 1/7
Heterogeneity in temporal dynamics of pain and affect among individuals with chronic back pain and associations with risk for future opioid-related problems
#Congrats
to Madelyn Frumkin for receiving an APF/COGDOP scholarship for "Personalized Predictors of Psychological + Physical Health in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain Receiving Spinal Surgery".
@MaddyFrumkin
is a fifth-year grad student in
#ClinicalPsych
@WUSTL
@APAScience
Met
@ShirleyBWang
on grad school interviews and now we're applying to internship together, so the lesson here is to keep your friend close and your enemies closer.
JK the REAL lesson is to enjoy the ride and make lifelong friends along the way. 🤞🤞 for all the applicants!!
No better way to celebrate submitting our
#APPIC
apps (YAY!!) than by eating our body weight in hot pot 😋
@MaddyFrumkin
Huge sigh of relief and so grateful for all the support of friends & mentors along the way!
Hey
@ABCTNOW
, join us Friday at 8:30am for our symposium entitled "Individualized Assessment and Treatment: What Wisdom Does Ecological Momentary Assessment Offer to Clinician and Client Stakeholders?" Featuring
@NC_Jacobson
,
@InezGermeys
, and twitterless Don Robinaugh 1/5
Excited to share a new paper with
@JGreenberg_MD
@SaadJaveedMD
@drrodebaugh
& others
@WUSTL
!
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Preoperative Multimodal Mobile Health Assessment in Spine Surgery Candidates
🧵👇 1/10
It's been a hard few weeks, with rising anti-Asian violence and many folks still denying the reality of anti-Asian racism. Some thoughts on this Sunday afternoon...1) We must fight anti-Asian racism without fueling anti-Blackness (calls for increased policing are unacceptable).
If you couldn't tell, we had the best time presenting at
#CPA2023
.
I was really overwhelmed by the amount of excitement for our work examining whether dynamic data (collected via EMA & Fitbit) improves prediction of who is at risk for negative outcomes after spine surgery. 🧵
Internship applications are an overwhelming and scary process, but dang is it a nice reminder that most of the folks in this field just really want to help each other make it through.
So excited to see this out! EMA pain research is exploding, but there is little evidence that momentary measures are reliable, valid, and/or useful for predicting pain outcomes.
Original: Madelyn Frumkin et al. show that the brief 3-item momentary Pain Catastrophizing Scale (mPCS) is reliable and valid for momentary assessment
- mPCS was associated with ⬆ postsurgical pain
- mPCS predicted less improvement in postop pain
Full:
I wonder how many women would NOT have endured sexual harassment if universities actually held people accountable for inappropriate behavior that wasn't technically illegal. As is, they let people flirt with that line until (shocker) someone crosses it. Ahem,
@WUSTLmed
How it feels attending your first substance use conference. Excited to meet lots of new & online-only faces! Would love to chat with anyone interested in pain, EMA, wearables, tacos and/or hiking
#CPA2023
So happy for
@drtessthompson
&
@drrodebaugh
! Not sure there is a more full circle moment than when your advisor returns to both of your alma maters a month after you defend 😅 Go heels!
@drrodebaugh
& I are thrilled to share that, as of July 1, we'll be joining the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill. I'll be in the School of Social Work collaborating with
@UNC_Lineberger
, and he'll be in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience. We're excited for this new adventure!
I'm interested in having folks who aren't me record brief videos (<15min, could be a conversation with me or solo) on clinical topics for the "abnormal" psych/intro to clinical course I'm teaching this summer. I would love for them to be research and/or treatment related. 1/3
While we're at it, would love to "see" folks on Sunday for Symposium 126: What Is Psychological Pain? A Transdiagnostic Examination of the Nature and Correlates of Pain Affect Arising from Psychological or Social Stimuli
@ddlcoppersmith
@mk_nock
In the pre-contemplation stage of reducing exclamation point use in professional emails. But how else will they know I'm excited/happy/encouraging/not mad at them??
Very excited for this to be out in
@J_Psychosom_Res
! "The role of affect in chronic pain: A systematic review of within-person symptom dynamics" with
@drrodebaugh
.
This position is a dream come true. I am so excited to continue my digital health work in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders with fantastic colleagues. I will get to teach and mentor exceptional students within
@QBSdartmouth
and
@DartmouthInst
.
My QOL would be so much higher if NIMH had an automatic pay line 😣 Been in pending purgatory since June, submitted this version in April 2020. I'm still hopeful, but waiting months for a notification that affects all your future plans is HARD.
Thank you so much everyone for celebrating this with me. More than happy to share materials/advice with anyone thinking of applying. My biggest advice is to start early and get a dog along the way 😅
Lesson learned: Complaining on Twitter leads to notices of awards 1/1 times.
Thank you so much to everyone who supported me in this long and arduous process, especially an all-star mentorship team including
@drrodebaugh
,
@S_Haroutounian
,
@EricLenze2
,
@ExtenCara
& more 😊
Update for anyone who cares: Got a Fitbit Inspire (low cost + does most of what higher cost Charge models do minus the GPS tracking), easily registered an app and downloaded my data (second-by-second) through R (). 🤠🤠🤠
According to almost 2k patients, mental/psychological pain was the most important mood or emotional symptom to be addressed by depression treatment. Healthcare professionals said anhedonia. Whoa!
Our paper on measuring outcomes that matter to depressed patients, caregivers, & healthcare professionals is out, led by the brilliant 🔥
@ChevanceAstrid
🔥.
Details in 🧵below. If you RT only one of my tweets this year, make it this one.
SO happy for Professor
@JasminBStephens
!! If you don't know her work, you need to. The absolute best part of this journey is the friends you make along the way 💙
I am overjoyed to share that in July 2025, after completing one year of postdoctoral training
@MGHPsychiatry
@NASEMFordFellow
, I’ll be joining the faculty
@UCBerkeley
as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology!
Late to the
@ABCTNOW
party, but thrilled to share our symposium "What is Psychological Pain? A Transdiagnostic Examination of the Nature and Correlates of Pain Affect arising from Psychological or Social Stimuli" with Don Robinaugh, Steven Mee,
@ddlcoppersmith
, &
@mk_nock
!
I just finished recording lectures for my ~80% asynchronous class (!) and I have concluded that I never wish to hear the sound of my own voice again thank you and goodnight
Here is a pic of two women who I admire greatly. Today is their unofficially official graduation day. I would love nothing more than to be celebrating with cocktails and brunch, but a tweet will have to do for now. Congrats to (basically) Dr.
@MarilynPicciri1
& Dr.
@na_tonge
!!
Just texted my partner to ask if we can go to Jeni's tonight if I record the lecture I'm procrastinating. And that, my students, is operant conditioning. 🍦
I'm planning a week for my first-year undergrad seminar devoted to how racial diversity is (mis)handled in psychological research/clinical practice. Hit me with your favorite articles (academic or otherwise), podcasts, etc. ⬇️
@drrodebaugh
Application fees and official transcripts ($$). Have also seen stuff floating around about GRE being a barrier for some and a help for others (esp if undergrad is considered less prestigious). Maybe an optional component?
Attending a virtual conference in the middle of teaching a 5-week intensive course is always a great idea 👀
But seriously, very excited for my first
@SAAscience
! Would love to connect with folks on here - tell me what to go to 😊
Huge congrats to Dr.
@jlcrawford28
on a fantastic defense of her dissertation integrating neuroimaging, cognitive tasks, and EMA!!!
Cabot is honored to have made the slideshow 🥰
🚨 New Paper 🚨
TLDR: We developed a short measure to assess severity of bothersome tinnitus. We hope this measure will improve ability to assess tinnitus severity with more frequency, especially during treatment trials. A brief thread 👇 1/5
Humble brag aside, it was hard as an ECR applying for my first major grant to trust that perseverance might maybe eventually possibly pay off. Listen to people like
@drrodebaugh
when they tell you that it's all random and you might as well keep trying ✨
My endless gratitude to
@drrodebaugh
and my lab-mates
@MarilynPicciri1
,
@na_tonge
, Julie, Jason, Jin, Gabby, and Chavez. My biggest advice for folks considering grad programs is to choose a place where you like the people. I did, and I've never once regretted it 🩶
A nice overview of what we've done & what's still left to do if we want to integrate ambulatory assessment into clinical spaces. I'll just add that it's not that hard to run some within- and between-person psychometrics on your shiny new EMA items!
Check out me and
@aidangcw
's recently accepted paper at Assessment! We discuss advances in both HiTOP and clinical ambulatory assessment, and how they might be integrated 1/2
⬇️We all felt the pressure of trying to make every PI like us and want to choose us, but ultimately YOU have to choose a program/lab/mentor that you actually like. 5-7(ish) years is not a short amount of time.
Speaking of psychological pain, new (long time in the making) paper with Don Robinaugh & friends - The pain of grief: Exploring the concept of psychological pain and its relation to complicated grief, depression, and risk for suicide in bereaved adults👇
Excited to tune in for this! Our project "Using mobile health technology to capture physical, functional and psychosocial features that predict recovery after lumbar fusion" (part of which will be my dissertation) is up around 3pm CST 🤞
Hear our 11 finalists pitch their ideas for a chance at a grant award of up to $50,000. For a list of finalists and to register to attend this virtual event, visit
@WashUi2
@WUSTLmed
@BJC_HealthCare
Website official! 🎉
Now also seems like a good time to share that I'll be reviewing apps for the Clinical Psychology PhD program
@YalePsychology
this year, and hiring a lab manager (lab website with more info coming soon). Please help spread the word!
Also, this is the first grant with my name on it that's actually been funded....after many many many attempts (including 3 failed NRSA applications along similar lines). Don't give up, tired grad student 💕