Aaron Lyon, PhD

Faculty Appointment(s)

Professor

Leadership Role(s)

Director, SMART Center

Co-Director, UW ALACRITY Center

Director, RIISE

lyona@uw.edu

Personal Statement

My research focuses on increasing the accessibility, efficiency, and effectiveness of community- and school-based interventions for children, adolescents, and families. I am particularly interested in (1) the identification and implementation of low-cost, high-yield practices – such as the use of measurement-based care – to reduce the gap between typical and optimal practice in schools; (2) development of individual- and organization-level implementation strategies to promote adoption and sustainment of evidence-based psychosocial interventions within a multi-tier systems of support (MTSS) framework; and (3) human-centered design (and redesign) of psychosocial and digital technologies to improve their implementability, accessibility, and effectiveness. I am the founder and Director of the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center, dually housed in UW’s School of Medicine and College of Education.

Education

PhD: Clinical Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago
Residency: Clinical Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle
Fellowship: Mental Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle

Department Affiliations

Centers/Programs
Training Programs

Research Institute for Implementation Science in Education (RIISE)

Recent Publications

Conducting Research at the Intersection of HCI and Health: Building and Supporting Teams with Diverse Expertise to Increase Public Health Impact.
(2024 May)
Ext Abstr Hum Factors Computing Syst 2024():
Agapie E, Karkar R, Aung T, Burgess E, Chinguwa MJ, Graham A, Klasnja P, Lyon A, McCall T, Munson S, Nunes F, Osterhage K
Development of a method for Making Optimal Decisions for Intervention Flexibility during Implementation (MODIFI): a modified Delphi study.
(2024 Jun 17)
Implement Sci Commun 5(1): 64
Brewer SK, Corbin CM, Baumann AA, Stirman SW, Jones JM, Pullmann MD, Lyon AR, MODIFI Expert Panel
Inter-organizational alignment and implementation outcomes in integrated mental healthcare for children and adolescents: a cross-sectional observational study.
(2024 May 27)
Implement Sci 19(1): 36
Zhang Y, Larson M, Ehrhart MG, King K, Locke J, Cook CR, Lyon AR
Associations among educators' beliefs, intervention fidelity, and student outcomes in school-wide positive behavior interventions, and supports: A school-level moderated mediation analysis.
(2024 May 2)
Sch Psychol
Zhang Y, Fallon L, Larson M, Browning Wright D, Cook CR, Lyon AR
Correction: Leveraging human-centered design and causal pathway diagramming toward enhanced specifcation and development of innovative implementation strategies: a case example of an outreach tool to address racial inequities in breast cancer screening.
(2024 Apr 25)
Implement Sci Commun 5(1): 47
Marcotte LM, Langevin R, Hempstead BH, Ganguly A, Lyon AR, Weiner BJ, Akinsoto N, Houston PL, Fang V, Hsieh G
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