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Welcome to MAPCI 2026 (Feb 24-27) in Ann Arbor.

Training Institute Schedule

Daily start and end times, and session flow across the four days.

Modules & Materials

The core slides and supporting materials used during the institute.

People Directory

Meet the faculty and facilitators guiding MAPCI, as well as your program peers.
In-Person Programming

Institute Schedule

Day 1

Henderson Room, 3rd Floor
8:30 – 9:00

Welcome

Chris Freise

9:00 – 10:00

M0 Introduction to MOST & Optimizing Interventions

Linda Collins

10:00 – 10:10

Break

10:10 – 11:05

M1 Introduction to Adaptive Interventions

Billie Nahum-Shani

11:05 – 12:00

M2 Introduction to SMART Designs

Danny Almirall

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00

M3 Grant Writing with SMARTs

Danny Almirall

2:00 – 2:10

Intro to Small Group Working Sessions & Icebreaker

Billie Nahum-Shani & Cait Hayward

2:10 – 2:30

Ice Breaker

Libby Benson

2:30 – 5:00

Small Group Working Sessions

Day 2

Henderson Room, 3rd Floor
9:00 – 9:30

Intro to Day 2 + Addressing Questions from Day 1

Billie Nahum-Shani

9:30 – 10:30

M4 Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs)

Danny Almirall

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:45

M5 Micro-Randomized Trials (MRTs) for Developing Digital Interventions

Billie Nahum-Shani

11:45 – 12:45

Lunch

12:45 – 1:45

M6 Grant Writing with MRTs

Billie Nahum-Shani

1:45 – 2:30

Software to Conduct Research on JITAIs

Mark Newman

2:30 – 2:45

Intro to Small Group Sessions

Billie Nahum-Shani & Cait Hayward

2:45 – 5:00

Small Group Working Sessions

At the end of the day, sign up your group for Day 4 presentation.

Day 3

Henderson Room, 3rd Floor
8:30 – 9:00

Intro to Day 3 + Small Group Sessions + Q&A

Billie Nahum-Shani

9:00 – 11:00

Small Group Sessions

11:00 – 11:15

Break

11:15 – 12:00

M7 Pilot Studies for Optimizing Adaptive Interventions

Danny Almirall

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 1:45

M8 Personalizing Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (pJITAIs)

Susan Murphy

1:45 – 2:30

M9 Multimodality Adaptive Interventions (MADIs) & Hybrid Experimental Designs (HEDs)

Billie Nahum-Shani

2:30 – 2:45

Break

2:45 – 3:30

M10 Multilevel Adaptive Implementation Strategies (MAISYs)

Danny Almirall

3:30 – 3:35

Intro to Small Group Sessions

Billie Nahum-Shani & Cait Hayward

3:35 – 5:00

Small Group Working Sessions

Day 4

Koessler Room, 3rd Floor
8:30 – 9:00

Intro to Day 4

Billie Nahum-Shani

9:00 – 10:20

Presentations

10:20 – 10:30

Break

10:30 – 12:00

Presentations

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00

Presentations

2:00 – 2:30

Next Steps: Proposal Development Beyond the Institute

2:30 – 3:00

Institute Wrap-Up

Learning Resources

Modules & Materials

Each module below includes the core slides and supporting materials used during the institute.

G

General Resources

Index of Resources by Topic
MAPCI Reading List
Code Library
SMART Template - Build Your Own in Powerpoint
RF

Must-Read Foundations

Intervention Optimization: A Paradigm Shift and Its Potential Implications for Clinical Psychology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2024)
Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions: Where Are We Now and What Is Next?. Annual Review of Psychology (2025)
Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial Designs. JAMA (2023)
M0

Introduction to MOST & Optimizing Interventions

Slide Deck
M1

Introduction to Adaptive Interventions

Slide Deck
M2

Introduction to SMART Designs

Slide Deck
Handout - Sample Size Considerations
Handout - Case Studies
Handout - Sample Size for a Clustered SMART
Handout - Sample Size for a SMART with Repeated Outcome Measures
M3

Grant Writing with SMARTs

Slide Deck
Handout - SMART Grant Writing Guide
M4

Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs)

Slide Deck
M5

Micro-Randomized Trials (MRTs) for Developing Digital Interventions

Slide Deck
M6

Grant Writing with MRTs

Slide Deck
Handout - MRT Grant Writing Guide
M7

Pilot Studies for Optimizing Adaptive Interventions

Slide Deck
M8

Personalizing Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (pJITAIs)

Slide Deck
M9

Multi-modality Adaptive Interventions (MADIs) + Hybrid Exp. Designs (HEDs)

Slide Deck
M10

Multilevel Adaptive Implementation Strategies (MAISYs)

Slide Deck

Directory

Program Faculty
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MAPCI Fellows
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Meet the Experts

Program Faculty

Christopher R. Friese

U-M Rogel Cancer Center
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Inbal Billie Nahum-Shani

U-M Institute for Social Research
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Daniel Almirall

U-M Institute for Social Research
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Susan A. Murphy

Harvard University
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Linda M. Collins

New York University
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Maureen Walton

University of Michigan
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David Conroy

U-M School of Kinesiology
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David Fresco

U-M Medical School
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Donglin Zeng

U-M School of Public Health
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John Dziak

Institute for Social Research
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Lara Coughlin

U-M Addiction Center
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Devin Tomlinson

U-M Addiction Center
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Lizbeth 'Libby' Benson

U-M Institute for Social Research
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Shiyu Zhang

U-M Institute for Social Research
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Noelle Carlozzi

Center for Clinical Outcomes (U-M)
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Ewa Czyz

U-M Medical School
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Rebecca Sripada

U-M Medical School
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Pei-Yao Hung

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Jamie Yap

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Mark Newman

U-M School of Information & U-M Engineering
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Meet the Cohort

2026 MAPCI Fellows

Adam Alexander

University of Oklahoma Health Campus
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Alejandra Fernandez

UT Southwestern Peter O’Donnell School of Public Health
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Alex J. Fauer

University of California, Davis
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Allyson (Ally) Tabaczynski

University of Michigan
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Carolina L Haass-Koffler

Brown University
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Cinzia Caparso

Wayne State University College of Nursing
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Dan Song

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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David Horton

University of Michigan
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Dr. Daiveek P.G.

National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
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Elizabeth Salerno

University of Michigan
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Erica Phillips

Weill Cornell Medicine
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Erica Soltero

Baylor College of Medicine
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Gabrielli De Mello

Texas A&M AgriLife Research
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Jason Gibbons

Harvard Medical School
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Jingchuan Wu

University of Arkansas
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Kai-Lin You

University of Michigan
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Kathryn Hyzak

The Ohio State University College of Medicine
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Laurel Finster

Stanford University
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Lauren Ghazal

University of Rochester
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Lex Hurley

University of Michigan
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Maya Stemmer

University of Washington
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Nathalia Munck Machado

University of Oklahoma Health Campus
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Neo Gebru

Emory University
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Nicolas Leenaerts

Harvard University
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Paige W. Lake

Moffitt Cancer Center
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Shaila Strayhorn-Carter

University of North Carolina Wilmington
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Shirley Cohen-Mekelburg

University of Michigan
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Sophie Green

University of Leeds, UK
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Tal El-Hay

KI Research Institute
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