Scott Walters

New smartphone app provides real-time alcohol recovery support to homeless adults

By Sally Crocker A new smartphone application is helping residents of a Dallas homeless shelter combat problem drinking through an innovative program that uses machine learning to predict the feelings, triggers and situations that can lead to alcohol misuse. Scott Walters, PhD, Regents Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort…

Dr. Lin Tan joined the Project INTEGRATE

Welcome to our newest lab member, Lin! In July 2021, Lin Tan, Ph.D., joined Project INTEGRATE as a Research Scientist. Lin completed her post-doc training in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan prior to joining our team. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Lin is interested…
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Public health scientist lends expertise to national database addressing safer use of chemicals in our environment

By Sally Crocker Katie Pelch, PhD, wants you to know what’s in our environment and how the chemicals we’re exposed to every day may affect our health. Dr. Pelch is a part-time Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, in the HSC School of Public Health (SPH), where she teaches courses in environmental health. She…
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HSC researchers collaborate on new study to reduce alcohol use and risky sexual behaviors among college freshmen

By Sally Crocker Three School of Public Health (SPH) researchers at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) - Eun-Young Mun, PhD, site Principal Investigator, and Melissa A. Lewis, PhD, of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Systems, and Zhengyang Zhou, PhD, Biostatistics and Epidemiology - are collaborating with…
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The realities of ‘breaking bad’ and how one HSC researcher is attacking the opioid crisis

By Sally Crocker He didn’t know it at the time, but when Dr. Scott Walters was growing up in San Diego in the mid 1980s, a next-door neighbor was concealing a homemade meth lab just across the fence and mere steps away from his bedroom window. For quite some time, concerned parents in his family’s…