Brianna A. Lienemann, PhD

Project Coordinator @ UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

Brianna is the project manager for the development, implementation, and evaluation of an alternative-to-suspension restorative justice behavioral modification program, Youth Vaping Alternative Program Education (YVAPE), www.yvape.org, with counseling and educational components for public schools in California to easily refer students facing disciplinary action for vaping nicotine and cannabis. We also produced five educational videos for YVAPE consulting with a video production company. She is the project manager for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a mental health referral pilot project wherein we refer clients with mental health conditions to local mental health services. She is the co-project manager (with the Clinical Director) of the implementation of video counseling at Kick It California (KIC). She is the project manager for the implementation of a web-based referral system for California schools to enroll students in KIC’s cessation services as well as providing training for schools. She is a content developer for behavior change interventions for vulnerable tobacco users with new technological modalities (i.e., quit vaping [No Vape] and smoking [No Butts] mobile apps and online video interventions [OVI]) as part of KIC. She is the project manager for three randomized controlled trials evaluating KIC’s online video interventions using both online participants and KIC clients. She evaluated KIC’s online Digital Proxy Toolkit.

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