Weitzman Laboratory Research | Overview
The Weitzman Research Lab focuses on improving the health and healthcare of children, adolescents and young adults through understanding and ameliorating the psychosocial, medical and behavioral problems affecting them. We advance high impact research that improves the lives of youth – placing emphasis on the experiences and preferences of youth. Using a multidisciplinary “team science” approach, we address key issues, leveraging information technologies, “big data,” participatory, narrative and experimental methods. The Weitzman Research Lab is associated with both the Division of Addiction Medicine and Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Current research projects
- Adolescent outcomes of Post-operative opioid Exposure (APEX)
- Modeling Adjuvant Responses in Human Blood In Vitro to Inform Opioid Vaccine Development
- Integrating SBIRT into Pediatric Primary Care
- Mentee Project: Preventing Inter-Generational Substance Use: Assessing Caregiver and Provider Goals for Pediatrician Guidance to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use
- Development and Evaluation of a Precision Prevention Intervention for Adolescents with Substance Use Disorder
- Adolescent Screening To Help Eliminate Misuse (ASC-THEM)
- Evaluation of SBIRT in Primary Care for Adolescents and Young Adults
- Leveraging Social Media to Engage Adolescent Participants in Patient-Centered Cohort Research for the Clinical Care of Rheumatic Diseases
- Mentee Project: Health-Related Social Media Use by Parents of Children with Rheumatic Diseases
- Mentee Project: Mobile Health Assessment of Interplay Among Sleep, Pain, and Inhibitory Control in Adolescent Marijuana Use
- Mentee Project: Harnessing Social Media to Increase Device Uptake and Improve Outcomes in Young People with Type 1 Diabetes
- Mentee Project: Delivering Contextualizing Population Data to Patients to Motivate Health Care Transition Preparation
- Clinical Validation of PROMIS® Pediatric Measures in Diverse Research Networks
Past research projects
- Evaluation of School Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in Massachusetts Public Schools
- Detecting Youth Drinking and Associations with Alcohol Policies via Social Media
- Adolescent and Young Adult Research Network
- Adolescent Views and Experiences with Vaping
- Validating Adolescent Substance Use Measures
- Trial of a Novel Brief Intervention for Substance Use Among Youth with Chronic Medical Conditions
- Health Promotion in Transition: Effects of Web-Based Health Information on Disease Management and Alcohol Use for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes in College
- Developing Patient and Family Centered Approaches for Measuring and Improving Transition Readiness and Self-Efficacy
- Secondary Data Analyses of Panel Study of Income Dynamics
- Active Patient Participation in a Disease Registry for Comparative Effectiveness: The Learning Cohort Study
- Longitudinal Analysis of Youth With and Without Chronic Conditions
Training and collaboration opportunities
To learn more about current training and collaboration opportunities, please contact Melissa Brogna at Melissa.Brogna@childrens.harvard.edu.