ECU professor selected for summer institute

Matthew Whited

Dr. Matthew Whited, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, has been selected to attend a summer institute to receive advanced training in designing and conducting randomized clinical trials involving behavioral interventions.

The Summer Institute is sponsored by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The 10-day training course will take place at the Arlie Conference Center in Northern Virginia.

Whited will receive training from more than 10 faculty members with expertise in fields such as behavioral medicine, psychosomatic medicine, cardiovascular diseases and mental health. The training is pertinent to Whited’s current NHLBI-funded research involving the treatment of depression and risk for cardiovascular disease.

Whited said he was excited about representing ECu at the event. “I hope to bring back what I’ve learned to ECU to not only improve my own research but to spread this knowledge to our graduate students in the Health Psychology PhD program,” he said.

— Lacey Gray, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences