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Priya Nambisan, PhD
Associate Professor,
Joseph. J. Zilber College of Public Health
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Northwest Quadrant Building B, Rm #6410
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
Phone: (414) 251-5217
Email: nambisap@uwm.edu
Founder & Director, Social Media and Health Research & Training (SMAHRT) Lab
Founder & Director, Aging Research & Digital Technologies (ARDT) Lab
Entrepreneur – Startups: myhealthDigiCare.com, myHESTIA.org

News

Dr. Priya Nambisan (PI) & team awarded 1.3M R01 grant from NIMH for studying social media impact on suicide

Dr. Priya Nambisan (PI) along with Co-Investigators Dr. Yan Leykin (Palo Alto U); Dr. Farrokh Alemi (George Mason U); Dr. Niloofar Ramezani (Virginia Commonwealth U); Dr. Jayme Peta (The Wright Institute); Dr. Moshoula Capous-Desyllas (Cal State-Northridge); Dr. Gary Kreps (George Mason U) and Dr. Lance Wienhardt (UWM) receives 1.3M R01 grant from NIMH.

Dr. Priya Nambisan awarded U.S. Fulbright Scholarship award (2024-2025) to India

Work with specific population groups:

Selected Recent Publications:

• Nambisan, P., Kapoor, A., Kreps, G., Sahithi-Dangeti, R. (2024). Framework-based Evaluation Of Mobile Health Apps For Older Adults: Implications For Technology-enabled Self-care. The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting.

Nambisan, P. & Kreps, G. (2024). Designing for and Assessing Learning in Digital Health Apps and Platforms: Case Study of a Comprehensive Digital Self-care Support System (CDSSS -myHESTIA) for the Aging. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences conference, HICSS-57, Honolulu, Hawaii. (Peer-reviewed – Proceedings -full paper).

Nambisan, P., Stange, K. C., Lyytinen, K., Kahana, E., Duthie, E., & Potnek, M. (2023). A Comprehensive Digital Self-care Support System for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions: Development, Feasibility, and Usability Testing of myHESTIA. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(2), 170-184.

Nambisan, P., Abahussain, M., Duthie, E., Galambos, C., Zhang, B., & Bukowy, E. (2021, May). Factors Associated with Increase in COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes: A Study of Nursing Homes in Midwestern States.  Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society. 5/13-5/15/21, virtual. Selected for the Presidential ePoster Session.

Nambisan, P. (2019). Comprehensive Digital Self-Care Support System (CDSSS). In: Gu D., Dupre M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. Available at: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-69892-2_289-1

Nambisan, P., Lyttinen, K., Stange, K.C., Kahana, E., & Kreps, G.L. (November 2019). A ‘Comprehensive Digital Self-Care Support System’ (CDSSS) for Older Adults: A Multi-Disciplinary framework. Accepted at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), Austin, Texas.