Mobile Phones as a Tool to Promote Health Behavior Change and Improve Body Composition

Chair(s)

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  Cristina Palacios, PhD, MS

  Associate Professor
  Department of Dietetics and Nutrition Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work
  Miami, Florida, United States

Speaker(s)

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  Ramesh Jain, PhD

  Director, Institute for Future Health, Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences
  Department of Computer Science
  University of California, Irvine
  IRVINE, California, United States
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  Cristina Palacios, PhD, MS

  Associate Professor
  Department of Dietetics and Nutrition Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work
  Miami, Florida, United States
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  Heather Eicher-Miller, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University
  West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Presentations:

• 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

  Use of Mobile Apps to Improve Dietary Behaviors
  Cristina Palacios, PhD, MS – Department of Dietetics and Nutrition Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work
• 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT

  New Methods to Pattern and Integrate Dietary and Physical Activity Data with Future Applications to Real-time Collection and User Feedback to Promote Health
  Heather A. Eicher-Miller, PhD – Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University
• 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

  The Use of Mobile Apps for Health Surveillance to Change Behavior
  Ramesh Jain, PhD – University of California, Irvine