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Amanda Constance Blok PhD, MSN

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentPopulation and Quantitative Health Sciences
AddressUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Ave North
Worcester MA 01605
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentPopulation and Quantitative Health Sciences
    DivisionHealth Informatics And Implementation Science


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    Oakland University, Rochester, MI, United StatesBSNursing
    Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United StatesMS
    University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United StatesPHDNursing
    University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesPostdoctoral FellowImplementation Science

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    Dr. Blok has extensive experience in both clinical practice and health behavior change research. She has practiced as a nurse for nearly a decade in inpatient and outpatient settings, with advanced practice and education certifications, as well as clinical experience in tobacco cessation. In the last six years, she has worked with multiple interdisciplinary research teams developing, conducting, and evaluating health behavior interventions. Through her post-doctoral fellowship, she has gained experience in implementation science methods and performed implementation program formative work, design, strategy, and measurement. She conducted a pilot study on the implementation of a mobile message system for tobacco cessation in hospitalized patients using nurse-driven strategies. The use of nurses to introduce health-promoting technology is novel.


    Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Nursing and a Nurse Fellow at the VA Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research (CHOIR). Her current work focuses on nurse engagement in quality improvement innovations that support veterans and their families.



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    1. Blok, A., Sadasivam, R., Houston, T. . Formative Evaluation to Determine Facilitators and Barriers to Nurse-driven Implementation: Designing an Inpatient mHealth Intervention to Support Smoking Cessation. Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Hawaiian International Conference for Social Systems (CD-ROM), Computer Society Press, (9 pages). 2016.
    2. Green AC, Hayman LL, Cooley ME. Multiple health behavior change in adults with or at risk for cancer: a systematic review. Am J Health Behav. 2015 May; 39(3):380-94. PMID: 25741683.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:Humans
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