{"id":623,"date":"2018-02-12T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/?p=623"},"modified":"2018-02-12T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:20:30","slug":"mobile-and-electronic-health-arc-welcomes-new-co-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/2018\/02\/12\/mobile-and-electronic-health-arc-welcomes-new-co-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile and Electronic Health ARC Welcomes New Co- Director!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mobile and Electronic Health ARC\u00a0 welcomes its new co-director, Dr. Tibor Palfai, a professor and Director of the Clinical Training Program in the Boston University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Palfai completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Palfai&#8217;s primary research interests are: (1) understanding the cognitive-motivational processes that underlie the self- control of addictive behaviors and (2) evaluating brief interventions for alcohol and substance use among college students and those in medical settings.<\/p>\n<p>Research projects include: (1) laboratory studies that examine the influence of alcohol on decision making, (2) studies that seek to better understand how cognitive-motivational processes influence addictive behaviors and behavior change, (3) studies to develop and test web and text-based interventions for hazardous drinking and other risk behaviors among college students, and (4) studies that seek to utilize technology to improve interventions for alcohol\/substance use and pain among medical patients such as those in HIV care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mobile and Electronic Health ARC\u00a0 welcomes its new co-director, Dr. Tibor Palfai, a professor and Director of the Clinical Training Program in the Boston University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/me-arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}