Ming-Yuan Chih, PhD, MHA, assistant professor in health sciences, education, and research, clinical leadership and management, and human health sciences, received a $30,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant from the UK Markey Cancer Center.

This one-year project, entitled, “Physical Activity Monitoring among Bone Marrow Transplant Patients: An Apple Watch Feasibility Trial,” will develop and test the feasibility of an Apple Watch-based system that includes software to track physical activity and monitor patient-reported outcomes among patients undergoing inpatient blood and marrow transplantation. The use of an Apple Watch-based system may offer an innovative and minimally-invasive approach to support healthy and safe physical activity during hospitalization.