Daniel Almirall
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Dr. Almirall develops methods used to form adaptive interventions, also known as dynamic treatment regimens. Adaptive interventions can be used to inform individualized treatment guidelines for the on-going management of chronic illnesses or disorders such as anxiety, depression, autism, diabetes, obesity, or HIV/AIDS. Dr. Almirall works primarily on methods related to the design, execution, and analysis of sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs). SMARTs give rise to high-quality data that can be used to build and optimize ATSs. He is also interested in the development of methods for causal inference using longitudinal intervention data in which treatments, covariates, and outcomes are all time-varying. A specific interest in this area has been the development of methods for examining time-varying effect moderation.
- Connie Kasari , Stephanie Shire , Wendy Shih , Ann Kaiser , Catherine Lord , Lynne Levato , Tristram Smith , Daniel Almirall. 2025. Adaptive Intervention for School-Age, Minimally Verbal Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Community: Primary Aim Results. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Joyce H. L. Lui, Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, Daniel Almirall, Kathryn B. Whitlock, William French, Mark A. Stein. 2025. Sequencing Stimulant Medication and Behavioral Parent Training in Multiplex ADHD Families: A Pilot SMART. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 86(1)
- Shawna N. Smith, Daniel Almirall, Seo Youn Choi, Carolyn Andrews, Elizabeth Koschmann, Amy Rusch, Emily Bilek, Annalise Lane, James L. Abelson, Daniel Eisenberg, Joseph A. Himle, Celeste Liebrecht, Amy M. Kilbourne. 2024. Student mental health outcomes of a clustered SMART for developing an adaptive implementation strategy to support school-based CBT delivery. Journal of Affective Disorders 367:399-407.
- Tanya R. Schlam, Timothy B. Baker, Megan E. Piper, Jessica W. Cook, Stevens S. Smith, Deejay Zwaga, Douglas E. Jorenby, Daniel Almirall, Daniel M. Bolt, Linda M. Collins, Robin Mermelstein, Michael C. Fiore. 2024. What to do after smoking relapse? A sequential multiple assignment randomized trial of chronic care smoking treatments. Addiction 119(5):898-914.
- Amy Kilbourne, Matthew Chinman, Shari Rogal, Daniel Almirall. 2024. Adaptive Designs in Implementation Science and Practice: Their Promise and the Need for Greater Understanding and Improved Communication. Annual Reviews 45:69-88.
- John J. Dziak, Daniel Almirall, Walter Dempsey, Catherine Stanger, Inbal Nahum-Shani. 2024. SMART Binary: New Sample Size Planning Resources for SMART Studies with Binary Outcome Measurements. Multivariate Behavioral Research 59(1):1-16.
- Stephanie Marita Carpenter, Jamie Roslyn Yap, Megan E Patrick, Nicole Morrell, John Dziak, Daniel Almirall, Carolyn Yoon, Inbal Nahum-Shani. 2023. Self-relevant appeals to engage in self-monitoring of alcohol use: A microrandomized trial. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 37(3):434-446.
- Steven S. Fu, Alexander J. Rothman, David M. Vock, Bruce R. Lindgren, Daniel Almirall, Abbie Begnaud, Anne C. Melzer, Kelsey L. Schertz, Mariah Branson, David Haynes, Patrick Hammett, Anne M. Joseph. 2023. Tobacco Cessation Treatment in Lung Cancer Screening. JAMA Network Open 6(8):e2329903.
- Kelley M. Kidwell, Daniel Almirall. 2023. Sequential, Multiple Assignment, Randomized Trial Designs. JAMA 329(4):336-337.
- Nina Zhou, Lu Wang, Daniel Almirall. 2022. Estimating tree-based dynamic treatment regimes using observational data with restricted treatment sequences. Biometrics 79(3):2260-2271.