About Us:
ElevateU LLC is a small business based in Corona del Mar, California that creates technologies to solve physical and mental health-related problems and to provide tools to improve health and wellness. ElevateU staff consult for various companies as well as research and build new technologies.
Some of the products we have built:
Moshemu:
Moshemu is an online research study recruitment platform. Moshemu was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 2019 and was created by a team of researchers, doctors, and social workers who care deeply about helping those who use substances. The Moshemu staff work with research scientists at major universities like UCLA, UC Irvine, Brown University, and Columbia University to find interested participants to join research studies.
HealthCheckins:
Healthcheckins is a peer support community and clinical counseling portal that helps chronic pain patients reduce their risk of opioid misuse. As patients freely discuss their symptoms, challenges and everyday life with trained peer leaders, Healthcheckins' artificial intelligence identifies users at higher risk for opioid addiction/overdose. These algorithms are based on our team's peer reviewed clinical studies where social media behavior predicted heroin use and other health outcomes.
DUNS Number: 079436000
Woman Owned Small Business
Past Performance:
NIDA 1R43DA049606-01A1
NIDA 1R43DA048670-01
NAICS: 541990Y
About Us:
ElevateU LLC is a small business based in Corona del Mar, California that creates technologies to solve physical and mental health-related problems and to provide tools to improve health and wellness. ElevateU staff consult for various companies as well as research and build new technologies.
Some of the products we have built:
Moshemu:
Moshemu is an online research study recruitment platform. Moshemu was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 2019 and was created by a team of researchers, doctors, and social workers who care deeply about helping those who use substances. The Moshemu staff work with research scientists at major universities like UCLA, UC Irvine, Brown University, and Columbia University to find interested participants to join research studies.
HealthCheckins:
Healthcheckins is a peer support community and clinical counseling portal that helps chronic pain patients reduce their risk of opioid misuse. As patients freely discuss their symptoms, challenges and everyday life with trained peer leaders, Healthcheckins' artificial intelligence identifies users at higher risk for opioid addiction/overdose. These algorithms are based on our team's peer reviewed clinical studies where social media behavior predicted heroin use and other health outcomes.
DUNS Number: 079436000
Woman Owned Small Business
Past Performance:
NIDA 1R43DA049606-01A1
NIDA 1R43DA048670-01
NAICS: 541990Y
OUR SOLUTIONS
Moshemu is an online research study recruitment platform. Moshemu was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 2019 and was created by a team of researchers, doctors, and social workers who care deeply about helping those who use substances. The Moshemu staff work with research scientists at major universities like UCLA, UC Irvine, Brown University, and Columbia University to find interested participants to join research studies.
Conducting research studies and finding the right participants can take a lot of time and money. Moshemu was created to speed up that matching process. One way to help substance users live better lives is to conduct research on ways to help them improve their health and mental health, this only happens through research. For people who join studies AKA “Participants,” joining a study can be a great way to make money and receive free services like healthcare, counseling, and medications. Keep in mind that not all studies offer the same free services or incentives. We use the information that Moshemu collects to help match you up with potential studies you can join and be paid to participate in.
Moshemu will never sell your information or give your information to any third parties or to law enforcement. In fact, the National Institute of Health studies on Moshemu have been approved by academic ethical review boards (IRB’s). These studies provide a “Certificate of Confidentiality,” meaning that the federal government has assured that we do not need to provide data to anyone ever, and can keep it secure and confidential.
Healthcheckins is a peer support community and clinical counseling portal that helps chronic pain patients reduce their risk of opioid misuse. As patients freely discuss their symptoms, challenges and everyday life with trained peer leaders, Healthcheckins' artificial intelligence identifies users at higher risk for opioid addiction/overdose. These algorithms are based on our team's peer reviewed clinical studies where social media behavior predicted heroin use and other health outcomes.
Healthcheckins was created by ElevateU, LLC.
ElevateU, LLC is a small business, founded by Renee Garett LCSW in Corona Del Mar, CA. The Company is currently supporting the NIH with two SBIR projects: (1) Recruitment Platform to match Researchers with Substance Using Participants, and (2) Opioid Support and Risk Reduction Online Platform. Their team includes clinicians and data science experts from UC-Irvine, Cedars-Sinai and other top research institutions.
Meet the Team
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Renee Garett
FOUNDER AND CEO
Renee is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker from Southern California. Renee started her career in social work as a social work trainee at a homeless shelter on Skid Row where she worked as a counselor for heroin and cocaine users. For the past 11 years, Renee has worked in many different settings (non-profits, community mental health settings, universities, and in her own private practice). She realized more needed to be done to help solve health and mental health problems from a macro level in addition to on an individual level. Renee became interested in utilizing technologies to help improve patient health and wellness.
As CEO of ElevateU, Renee creates technologies and interventions to support emotional and physical health and emotional wellbeing. ElevateU projects have been funded by several NIH grants. We provide consulting services to companies, non-profits, and universities. We launched MOSHEMU.com, an online recruitment platform for research studies. We also created HealthCheckIns, a social media platform to help opioid users adhere to their pain management regimes and manage their mental health symptoms.
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Sean D. Young, PhD, MS
SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR
Sean D. Young, PhD, MS, is the Executive Director of the University of California Institute for Prediction Technology, the Center for Digital Behavior, a Medical School and Informatics Professor with the UCI Departments of Emergency Medicine and Informatics, and the #1 Wall Street Journal and International Best-Selling author of Stick With It. Dr. Young received his PhD in Psychology and Master's degree in Health Services Research from Stanford University, worked in technology and user behavior/human factors at NASA Ames Research Center and Cisco Systems, taught at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and has advised various companies and start-ups. Dr. Young has presented at the European Parliament, mHealth Conference, World Congress, as well as corporations, academic institutions, and organizations. He was a study committee member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on STI prevention and control, and is currently a board member within NASEM’s broader Division of Health and Medicine.
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David Bychkov, PhD
RESEARCH CONSULTANT
David Bychkov, PhD has 20 years of experience in developing and commercializing evidence-based technologies for digital health. As CEO of Exmovere Holdings, he launched the world’s first Bluetooth biosensor wristwatch. David developed biosensor wristwatch systems for Ford, NASA and Samsung. After completing his PhD at the European Graduate School on medical media and communications, he pursued postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering. Since 2016, Dr. Bychkov has advised dozens of principal investigators, government agencies and device manufacturers on clinical studies relating to inpatient rehabilitation, opioid use disorder, stigma and HIV.
Contact us
ElevateU is always looking for research collaborators! Feel free to reach out to us!