Charles Jonassaint PhD, MHS

Charles Jonassaint, PhD, MHS is a practicing clinical health psychologist focusing on the implementation of behavioral intervention technologies in low-resource settings. He is currently funded through an NHLBI K23 grant to lead a program of research in sickle cell disease focused on designing and testing evidence-based mHealth tools for improving stress and pain management.

Dr. Jonassaint is also the co-inventor of two mobile apps for assessing patient-reported outcomes, innovations that are specifically designed to meet the needs of underserved populations. He is the co-inventor of an SCD-specific self-management app called SMART: The Sickle Cell Disease Mobile Application to Record Symptoms via Technology. Testing of SMART has led to two publications and is now being used in four funded studies at three institutions. His team has also developed a novel tool for assessing pain called Painimation, a tablet-based app that allows patients to use animations and graphical images to describe their pain experience.