Expert on Mobile Technology Delivers 24th Annual Bullough Lecture

Ryan Shaw, PhD, a digital health specialist and expert on integrating mobile technologies into first-generation care-delivery systems, delivered the School of Nursing’s 24th Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture on April 16. His presentation was titled, “Digital Health Technologies for Behavior Change and Symptom Management.” Shaw discussed digital health tools, health data types, COVID-19 as a digital health technology accelerator and digital health equity, in addition to specific research related to digital health technology.

Shaw, a faculty member at the Duke University School of Nursing and the Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, was one of the first scientists to publish research showing that patients could feasibly use multiple mobile technologies to manage their health. Shaw has also conducted foundational clinical trials exploring how patients and clinicians use mobile health for self-management and care delivery. His work is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), among others.

The annual Research Day brings together nursing scholars across Western New York to discuss and share advancements in the study of pressing health care issues. Students and faculty presented their research across a wide range of health care topics during a poster session – which was virtual in 2021 – following the lecture.

The Bullough Lecture was established in 1997 by Vern Bullough to honor the memory of his wife and colleague, Bonnie Bullough, dean of the School of Nursing from 1980-91, by bringing prominent leaders in the field to speak to the School of Nursing community.