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Acknowledgments

Advisory Panel 

We would like to thank our Cancer Advisory Panel for their participation in creating this intervention.

  • Allie Bartee

  • Brooke Chute

  • John Olmstead

  • Lisa Robinson

  • Donn Young

  • Ki Goodroe 

  • Michael McDonald 

  • Maria Meeks

  • Anthony & Carolyn McCallister 

  • David & Tracy Stone and children

Colleagues 

We would like to acknowledge our colleagues for sharing their time and expertise for this project:

  • Don Marks, Psy.D. -  Psychosocial Oncology (ACT & Mindfulness)

  • Joseph P. DeCola, Ph.D. - Clinical Psychology (Exposure Therapy)

  • Alexandra Zaleta, Ph.D. - Clinical Psychology (Standardized Manual Edits)

  • Stacy Flowers, PsyD - Clinical Psycholoogy (Actigraphy)

  • Ulysses Magalang, MD - Sleep Medicine

  • Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD - Behavioral Sleep Medicine

  • Wanda McEntyre, Ph.D. - Rehabilitation Psychology

  • Kristen Jackson, Ph.D. - Rehabilitation Psychology

  • Karen Hock, PT, MS, CLT-LANA - Rehabilitation Oncology

  • Andrew Albright, PT, DPT, CLT-LANA - Physical Therapy

  • Christina Walsh, OTD, OTR/L - Occupational Therapy

  • Juan Peng, M.A.S. - Biostatistician

  • Xueliang (Jeff) Pan, PhD - Biostatistician

  • Suzanne Bartle-Haring, Ph.D. - Sequential Equation Modeling

  • Robert Taylor, MD - Advance Care Planning (literature suggestions)

  • Jillian Gustin, MD - Advance Care Planning (edits)

  • Lauren Goodman, MD -Advance Care Planning (edits)

Research Assistance and Coordination

We are incredibly grateful to the clinical research assistants who have helped with app development and study coordination: 

  • Sarah Baltimore

  • Madison Voinovich

  • Allison Sigler

  • Allison Niehaus

  • Samantha Donermeyer Devine

  • Tricia McCambridge

  • Katie Slaven

  • Matthew Minnoti

  • Brooke Leon

  • Sophie Koawaleski

App Design and Development & Videography 

It takes multiple teams to create a web-based app. I’ve been fortunate to secure the expertise of:

  • James Jacoby, Tara Ward, Tim Moser at Moby, Inc. (App Development)

  • Brian Grady, Oliver Zapata, Jason Baker at Sway the Crowd (Videorecording)

  • Jeff Harper & Sean O’Hanlon at DuetHealth (FOCUS Version 1.0 – beta testing)

  • Carrier Beyer, Senior Manager, Multimedia for Marketing and Strategic Communications at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Videorecording)

Funding

We are grateful for seed funding for this project including:

  • National Cancer Institute (1R01CA281885-04A1)

  • Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer Control Seed Award (2020 CCP194)

  • Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer Control Seed Award (2021 GR122403) 

  • American Cancer Society Institutional Seed Grant (ACS IRG-67-003-47)

  • Lance Armstrong Foundation Survivorship Center for Excellence Grant (2010)

  • Tzagournis Medical Research Endowment Fund (2012)

  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Grant (UL1TR001070)

Questions?

If you have any questions related to FOCUS please contact us at FOCUS@osumc.edu or give us a call +1 614-814-1407

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