Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Nevada at Reno 2012
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Duke Cancer Institute Application for Administrative Supplement for the P30 Cancer Center Support Grant to Develop Tobacco Cessation Treatment Capacity and Infrastructure for Cancer Patients awarded by National Institutes of Health 1997 - 2019
  • Innovative Smartphone Application for Quitting Smoking among Seriously Mentally Ill awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2019
  • PainTracker Sel-Manager: a web-based platform to promote and track chronic pain self-management and other treatment outcomes awarded by University of Washington 2016 - 2017
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Book Sections

    • Vilardaga, R, and Hayes, SC. "A Contextual Behavioral Approach to Pathological Altruism." In Pathological Altruism. January 19, 2012.  Full Text

  • Conference Papers

    • Rector, K, Vilardaga, R, Lansky, L, Lu, K, Bennett, CL, Ladner, RE, and Kientz, JA. "Design and Real-World Evaluation of Eyes-Free Yoga: An Exergame for Blind and Low-Vision Exercise." April 2017.  Full Text
    • Karkar, R, Fogarty, J, Kientz, JA, Munson, SA, Vilardaga, R, and Zia, J. "Opportunities and challenges for self-experimentation in self-tracking." September 7, 2015.  Full Text
    • McDonell, MG, Leickly, E, Vilardaga, R, Skalisky, J, Battalio, S, Roll, J, Srebnik, D, and Ries, RK. "DETECTING RECENT HEAVY DRINKING USING ETHYL GLUCURONIDE IMMUNOASSAY." June 2015.  Link to Item
    • Heffner, JL, Mull, K, Mercer, L, Vilardaga, R, and Bricker, J. "EFFECTS OF TWO TELEPHONE-DELIVERED SMOKING CESSATION INTERVENTIONS ON HAZARDOUS DRINKING RATES: ACT VS. CBT." June 2014.  Link to Item
    • Lowe, JM, Angelo, FA, Leickly, E, Vilardaga, R, Wang, S, Srebnik, D, Ries, RK, and McDonell, MG. "HIGH AGREEMENT BETWEEN LOW CUT OFF ETG-I AND SELF-REPORTED DRINKING." June 2014.  Link to Item

  • Journal Articles

    • Vilardaga, R, Rizo, J, Zeng, E, Kientz, JA, Ries, R, Otis, C, and Hernandez, K. "User-Centered Design of Learn to Quit, a Smoking Cessation Smartphone App for People With Serious Mental Illness." JMIR serious games 6, no. 1 (January 16, 2018): e2-.  Full Text
    • Edwards, DJ, McEnteggart, C, Barnes-Holmes, Y, Lowe, R, Evans, N, and Vilardaga, R. "The Impact of Mindfulness and Perspective-Taking on Implicit Associations Toward the Elderly: a Relational Frame Theory Account." Mindfulness 8, no. 6 (December 2017): 1615-1622.  Full Text
    • Oliver, JA, Hallyburton, MB, Pacek, LR, Mitchell, JT, Vilardaga, R, Fuemmeler, BF, and Joseph McClernon, F. "What Do Smokers Want in A Smartphone-Based Cessation Application?." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (August 3, 2017).  Full Text
    • Karkar, R, Schroeder, J, Epstein, DA, Pina, LR, Scofield, J, Fogarty, J, Kientz, JA, Munson, SA, Vilardaga, R, and Zia, J. "TummyTrials: A Feasibility Study of Using Self-Experimentation to Detect Individualized Food Triggers." Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems . CHI Conference 2017 (May 2017): 6850-6863.  Full Text
    • McDonell, MG, Leickly, E, McPherson, S, Skalisky, J, Srebnik, D, Angelo, F, Vilardaga, R, Nepom, JR, Roll, JM, and Ries, RK. "A Randomized Controlled Trial of Ethyl Glucuronide-Based Contingency Management for Outpatients With Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders and Serious Mental Illness." The American journal of psychiatry 174, no. 4 (April 2017): 370-377.  Full Text
    • Bhattacharya, A, Vilardaga, R, Kientz, JA, and Munson, SA. "Lessons from Practice: Designing Tools to Facilitate Individualized Support for Quitting Smoking." ACM transactions on computer-human interaction : a publication of the Association for Computing Machinery 2017 (January 2017): 3057-3070.  Full Text
    • Rosenberg, DE, Kadokura, E, Morris, ME, Renz, A, and Vilardaga, RM. "Application of N-of-1 Experiments to Test the Efficacy of Inactivity Alert Features in Fitness Trackers to Increase Breaks from Sitting in Older Adults." Methods of Information in Medicine 56, no. 5 (2017).  Full Text
    • Karkar, R, Zia, J, Vilardaga, R, Mishra, SR, Fogarty, J, Munson, SA, and Kientz, JA. "A framework for self-experimentation in personalized health." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 23, no. 3 (May 2016): 440-448.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R, Rizo, J, Kientz, JA, McDonell, MG, Ries, RK, and Sobel, K. "User Experience Evaluation of a Smoking Cessation App in People With Serious Mental Illness." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 18, no. 5 (May 2016): 1032-1038.  Full Text
    • Levin, ME, Luoma, JB, Vilardaga, R, Lillis, J, Nobles, R, and Hayes, SC. "Examining the role of psychological inflexibility, perspective taking, and empathic concern in generalized prejudice." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 46, no. 3 (March 2016): 180-191.  Full Text
    • Villatte, JL, Vilardaga, R, Villatte, M, Plumb Vilardaga, JC, Atkins, DC, and Hayes, SC. "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy modules: Differential impact on treatment processes and outcomes." Behaviour research and therapy 77 (February 2016): 52-61.  Full Text
    • Zeng, EY, Vilardaga, R, Heffner, JL, Mull, KE, and Bricker, JB. "Predictors of Utilization of a Novel Smoking Cessation Smartphone App." Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 21, no. 12 (December 2015): 998-1004.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R, and Trent Codd, R. "Perspectives on the nature of being, becoming and reality from contextual behavioral science." Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 4, no. 4 (October 2015): 213-214.  Full Text
    • Leickly, E, McDonell, MG, Vilardaga, R, Angelo, FA, Lowe, JM, McPherson, S, Srebnik, D, Roll, JM, and Ries, RK. "High levels of agreement between clinic-based ethyl glucuronide (EtG) immunoassays and laboratory-based mass spectrometry." The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse 41, no. 3 (May 2015): 246-250.  Full Text
    • Lowe, JM, McDonell, MG, Leickly, E, Angelo, FA, Vilardaga, R, McPherson, S, Srebnik, D, Roll, J, and Ries, RK. "Determining ethyl glucuronide cutoffs when detecting self-reported alcohol use in addiction treatment patients." Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 39, no. 5 (May 2015): 905-910.  Full Text
    • Heffner, JL, Vilardaga, R, Mercer, LD, Kientz, JA, and Bricker, JB. "Feature-level analysis of a novel smartphone application for smoking cessation." The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse 41, no. 1 (January 2015): 68-73.  Full Text
    • Jones, HA, Heffner, JL, Mercer, L, Wyszynski, CM, Vilardaga, R, and Bricker, JB. "Web-based acceptance and commitment therapy smoking cessation treatment for smokers with depressive symptoms." Journal of dual diagnosis 11, no. 1 (January 2015): 56-62.  Full Text
    • Bricker, JB, Mull, KE, Kientz, JA, Vilardaga, R, Mercer, LD, Akioka, KJ, and Heffner, JL. "Randomized, controlled pilot trial of a smartphone app for smoking cessation using acceptance and commitment therapy." Drug and alcohol dependence 143 (October 2014): 87-94.  Full Text
    • Roth, WR, Vilardaga, R, Wolfe, N, Bricker, JB, and McDonell, MG. "Practical considerations in the design and development of smartphone apps for behavior change." Journal of contextual behavioral science 3, no. 4 (October 2014): 269-272.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R, Heffner, JL, Mercer, LD, and Bricker, JB. "Do counselor techniques predict quitting during smoking cessation treatment? A component analysis of telephone-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy." Behaviour research and therapy 61 (October 2014): 89-95.  Full Text
    • Yadavaia, JE, Hayes, SC, and Vilardaga, R. "Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Increase Self-Compassion: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of contextual behavioral science 3, no. 4 (October 2014): 248-257.  Full Text
    • McDonell, M, McPherson, S, Vilardaga, R, Srebnik, D, Angelo, FN, Leickly, E, Saxon, AJ, Roll, J, and Ries, R. "Preliminary findings: Contingency management targeting psycho-stimulant use results in secondary decreases in smoking for severely mentally ill adults." The American journal on addictions 23, no. 4 (July 2014): 407-410.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R, Bricker, J, and McDonell, M. "The promise of mobile technologies and single case designs for the study of individuals in their natural environment." Journal of contextual behavioral science 3, no. 2 (April 2014): 148-153.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R. "Technical, practical and analytic innovations in single case designs for contextual behavioral scientists." Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 3, no. 2 (April 2014): 136-137.  Full Text
    • Levin, ME, Luoma, JB, Lillis, J, Hayes, SC, and Vilardaga, R. "The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - Stigma (AAQ-S): Developing a measure of psychological flexibility with stigmatizing thoughts." Journal of contextual behavioral science 3, no. 1 (January 2014): 21-26.  Full Text
    • McDonell, M, McPherson, S, Vilardaga, R, Srebnik, D, Angelo, FN, Leickly, E, Saxon, AJ, Roll, J, and Ries, R. "Preliminary Findings: Contingency Management Targeting Psycho-Stimulant Use Results in Secondary Decreases in Smoking for Severely Mentally Ill Adults." AMERICAN JOURNAL ON ADDICTIONS 23, no. 4 (2014): 407-410.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Vilardaga, R, Hayes, SC, Atkins, DC, Bresee, C, and Kambiz, A. "Comparing experiential acceptance and cognitive reappraisal as predictors of functional outcome in individuals with serious mental illness." Behaviour research and therapy 51, no. 8 (August 2013): 425-433.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R, Estévez, A, Levin, ME, and Hayes, SC. "Deictic Relational Responding, Empathy, and Experiential Avoidance as Predictors of Social Anhedonia: Further Contributions From Relational Frame Theory." The Psychological Record 62, no. 3 (July 2012): 409-432.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R, Luoma, JB, Hayes, SC, Pistorello, J, Levin, ME, Hildebrandt, MJ, Kohlenberg, B, Roget, NA, and Bond, F. "Burnout among the addiction counseling workforce: the differential roles of mindfulness and values-based processes and work-site factors." Journal of substance abuse treatment 40, no. 4 (June 2011): 323-335.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R, Hayes, SC, Levin, ME, and Muto, T. "Creating a strategy for progress: a contextual behavioral science approach." The Behavior analyst 32, no. 1 (January 2009): 105-133.  Full Text
    • Vilardaga, R, Hayes, SC, and Schelin, L. "Philosophical, theoretical and empirical foundations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy." Anuario de Psicologia 38, no. 1 (April 1, 2007): 117-128. (Review)

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