Congratulations to Christopher Mayfield, MSDI student at UAMS, training with ACNC’s Dr. Lisa Jansen, for earning 2nd place in the Overall Poster Category at UAMS Student Research Day 🎉
Christopher’s poster, “Design of Micro Lessons for Remote Healthy Pregnancy Support in Arkansas: A Behavioral Intervention Support Tool for the GEM Study,” highlighted innovative work translating Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) recommendations and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) interpretation using accessible micro-lessons delivered through the MyCap app – 7Taps platform.
Christopher Mayfield (right) discusses his scientific poster with a guest of UAMS Student Research Day (left).
This work demonstrates how digital health tools can help bring precision nutrition approaches and behavioral support directly to pregnant participants, particularly of interest for decentralized, or remote settings. It is also a great example of how UAMS graduate students are being integrated into active clinical research programs at the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center (ACNC).
Great work, Christopher!
This study is funded by the Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention, a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P20GM109096 (Arkansas Children’s Research Institute, PI: Elisabet Børsheim)