2025 Annual Meeting

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Lisa Palko, PharmD

Lisa Palko, PharmD most recently serves as the Executive Director at the Society for Digital Mental Health. Dr Palko earned her PharmD from the University of Pittsburgh with a specialization in psychiatry and is a passionate advocate for mental health and technology-driven solutions. Her experience in the pharma industry includes serving as the Vice President of Medical Affairs at Akili Interactive, and as a Medical Director for Otsuka Digital Health. With more than two decades working in mental digital health/medicine organizations, she has been invited to advise on population health systems, pre-market applications and was instrumental in the development of a military population health tool. She has previously worked at UPMC Health Plan and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (UPMC). Her experience has resulted in the cultivation of a unique skill set essential for navigating the intersection of mental health and technology.

Melissa Bartlett, Senior Vice President, Health Policy

Melissa Bartlett is the Senior Vice President, Health Policy for ERIC, leading the development of ERIC’s health policy and advocacy for its legislative and regulatory priorities at the federal, state, and local levels. Specifically, she supports ERIC member companies in advancing policies impacting all aspects of employer-sponsored health coverage, including the taxation of benefits, health care costs, quality, safety, and access, as well as laws and regulations affecting how health care benefits are administered on a nationwide basis. Prior to joining ERIC, Melissa was a Principal at Chamber Hill Strategies, providing a broad range of health care stakeholders with strategic counsel, policy development, and congressional and agency engagement on health care legislative and regulatory matters. A long-time health policy and government relations professional, Melissa brought to the firm her previous experience working within government, corporations, and associations to help drive success for her clients. She previously served as Associate Vice President for Government Relations for Sanofi. Additionally, Melissa served as Vice President for Government Relations and Representation for Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) and represented health insurers through her regulatory work for America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Her first health policy experience was working with large, multi-specialty group practices as legislative counsel for the American Medical Group Association (AMGA). Melissa’s government experience includes serving as Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce focusing on Medicare and a wide range of health policy issues within the Committee’s jurisdiction. Prior to her work for Congress, Melissa developed Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) strategies, policies, and program improvements as a HIPAA Privacy Program Specialist for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and assisted with investigations to secure HIPAA compliance. Melissa earned her J.D. at the University of Kentucky College of Law, and her B.A. in Journalism from Franklin College.

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Kathryn Boger, PhD, ABPP

Kathryn Boger, PhD, ABPP is a board-certified child and adolescent clinical psychologist who has devoted her career to helping children and teens with anxiety disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). She is passionate about improving care for youth with these disorders and decreasing their suffering through innovative, research-based treatment approaches. In 2013, she co-developed the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP) at McLean Hospital, nationally recognized for providing empirically-supported intensive anxiety and OCD treatment. She also served as an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School and has published peer-reviewed journal articles, delivered regional and national talks (including a TEDx), and provided training to hospitals and schools. She is the author of a children’s book, Step by Step, about facing fears and being brave. In 2021, Dr. Boger co-founded InStride Health with the mission of increasing access to insurance-backed, research-based care for children, adolescents, and young adults with anxiety and OCD.

Margaret Anton, PhD

Dr. Margaret Anton is a Senior Manager on the Clinical Innovation and Research team at Two Chairs. She received her doctorate in child clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral training at the Medical University of South Carolina. For more than a decade, Dr. Anton has developed, evaluated, and implemented technology-enabled behavioral interventions in academic, community, and industry settings, Clinically she specializes in evidence-based interventions for child trauma and early-onset behavior disorders.

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Adimika Meadows Arthur, CEO & Executive Director

Adimika Meadows Arthur is a visionary healthcare leader with over two decades of experience driving innovation at the intersection of health equity, investments, and disruptive technologies. As a clinical epidemiologist and former hospital and health system executive, she brings a unique perspective on improving health outcomes through storytelling, connection, and culture. Adimika is the founding Executive Director and CEO of HealthTech for Medicaid (HT4M), a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing innovation in Medicaid—the nation’s largest insurer—to improve quality, equity, and access to care for vulnerable populations. Under her leadership, HT4M has become a mission-driven market enabler, fostering cross-sector collaboration and championing technology solutions that address the needs of historically underserved communities. Her work bridges the gap between policy, technology, and community, empowering organizations to navigate the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape while prioritizing equity and inclusion.

Vaile Wright, PhD

Vaile Wright, PhD is the inaugural Senior Director for the Office of Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association. As a licensed psychologist and researcher, she develops cutting-edge strategies to harness technology and data, tackling critical health care challenges. Her work focuses on expanding access and reach, measuring care, improving efficiencies, and optimizing treatment delivery at both the individual and systemic levels. As a prominent spokesperson for APA, her expertise has been sought out across major media platforms including CNN, NBC News, The New York Times, and NPR on a range of topics including telehealth and technology, AI, and access to mental health care. Dr. Wright earned her PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is licensed in the District of Columbia.

Stephen Schueller, PhD

Stephen Schueller, PhD is a Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Riverside, his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco as part of the Public Health and Minority Cluster at San Francisco General Hospital.  As a clinical psychologist and mental health services researcher, Dr. Schueller’s work focuses on how technology can improve mental health services by expanding access and improving accessibility. This includes the development, evaluation, and implementation of digital mental health products in diverse settings and populations.  At UCI, he directs the Technology and Mental Health (TEAM) Lab, is the Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Unit for the Institute of Clinical and Translation Science and is a member of UCI’s Connected Learning Lab and the Jacobs CERES Center.

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Xiaoran Sun, PhD

Xiaoran Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Social Science, College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Minnesota. She is also a core faculty of the CEHD Learning Informatics Lab and a faculty affiliate of the Data Science Initiative and the Minnesota Population Center. Dr. Sun’s research is focused on using passive sensing approaches to study how adolescents and parents use their smartphones and how their smartphone use influence their relationships and well-being. She is the Principal Investigator of the UMN Teen Social Media Study where she uses a youth-centered approach to study how adolescents manage their social media use and its implications for their mental health. Dr. Sun’s work has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.

Amy Orben, DPhil

Dr Amy Orben is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and Fellow of St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. She leads an internationally recognised research programme investigating the links between mental health and digital technology use in adolescence. She routinely advises policymakers and public servants around the world, for example as a member of the Science Advisory Council at the UK Department for Education. Dr Orben completed her DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and MA in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Since returning to Cambridge, she has received a range of prestigious awards including the Medical Research Council Early Career Impact Prize (2022). She also received the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Mission Award (2020) for her work to improve scientific practice and research culture in her field.

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Erin Sietstra, Head of Investments

Erin Sietstra (she/her) is the Head of Investments at Hopelab, where she leads venture investments in companies that aim to improve the mental health and well-being of teens and young adults. Prior to Hopelab, she led Transactions and Business Analytics at Johnson & Johnson Innovation, and she began her career as a strategy consultant at Leerink Partners, a healthcare-focused boutique. Erin holds an MBA with a Certificate in Public Management & Social Innovation from Stanford and a BA in Biology from Harvard.

Andrew Barr, Founding Partner

Andrew is a founding partner of GreyMatter, a mental and brain health focused venture capital fund.  Prior to GreyMatter, he advised and invested at the intersection of mental health and technology, supporting a range of startups and nonprofits. Andrew brings lived experience to his work, having struggled with OCD as a teenager. Before working in the mental health space, he was Co-Founder and COO of Prefer, a Benchmark-backed startup serving independent workers. Prior to that, Andrew was an investor at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a multibillion-dollar later stage venture firm with over 130 IPOs, including Twitter, Snapchat, Dropbox, and Uber. In addition to GreyMatter, Andrew currently serves on the behavioral health transformation committee for the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation and previously served on the Well Being Trust National Advisory Council. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

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Caitlin Stamatis, PhD

Dr. Stamatis is a clinical psychologist, Fulbright Scholar, and expert in technology-enabled behavioral health. She has held various clinical research and product leadership positions within digital health companies. At Google, Dr. Stamatis built a program of research on digital health interventions for trauma-exposed populations. As the Director of Medical and Scientific Affairs at Akili Interactive Labs, her team’s research resulted in the development of commercial product features for remotely measuring cognitive functioning in real-time with a digital therapeutic. Currently, Dr. Stamatis is Bruin Health’s Chief Clinical Officer, leading clinical science initiatives focused on technology-enabled behavioral health integration. Dr. Stamatis holds leadership positions in several digital medicine organizations, including as co-chair of the Society for Digital Mental Health Industry Special Interest Group. She completed her BA in psychology at Columbia University, her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Miami, and her psychology residency at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Soo Jeong Youn, PhD

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Giovanni Ramos, PhD

Gio Ramos is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Mental Health Equity in Access and Treatment (M-HEAT) Lab. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, San Francisco. His research combines a health equity lens, community-based approaches, and digital tools to address mental health inequities affecting racially and ethnically minoritized populations, with an emphasis on Latinx populations. To achieve this goal, he focuses on three interconnected research areas: 1) identifying risk and resilience factors that affect the mental health outcomes of marginalized groups, 2) enhancing the cultural and contextual fit of evidence-based treatments (including digital interventions) through data-driven approaches, and 3) using digital tools to increase the accessibility of mental health services in disenfranchised communities.

Kelly Shaffer, PhD

Kelly Shaffer is an Associate Professor in the Center for Behavioral Health and Technology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and co-lead of the Cancer Prevention and Population Health research program at the University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in psycho-oncology and digital health. The goal of her research is to modernize and expand psychosocial care delivery to people with cancer and their families through scalable and effective technology-based interventions. She currently leads a US-national factorial trial to optimize an Internet-delivered sexual health intervention for breast cancer survivors through the National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program (R37CA269776, NCT06216574).

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Megan Coder, PharmD, MBA

Megan Coder, PharmD, MBA specializes in digital health policy, product assessment, and real-world impact. Her work focuses on enabling decision-makers to evaluate, implement, and scale digital health technologies within and across local and national settings. She’s most recently served as Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA) and Vice President, Product & Policy with the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe). Trained as a pharmacist, Megan graduated from the University of Wisconsin—Madison and is currently based in Paris, France.

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Caitlin Shepherd, PhD

Caitlin Shepherd, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with over a decade of clinical and research experience in the mental health field with a specialty in eating disorders. She is currently the Clinical Research Director at Within Health, a fully remote eating disorder treatment program offering partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient services. In this role, she oversees the clinical research and outcomes program, including co-leading the company’s measurement-based care initiative. Dr. Shepherd has extensive experience using data-driven approaches to support individuals with eating disorders and other mental health concerns across diverse settings. She has also held faculty positions at multiple institutions and maintains an academic appointment as a Research Affiliate at Smith College. An active member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, she currently serves as co-chair of the Educational Programming Committee.

Marisa Perera, PhD

Marisa Perera, PhD, is a Senior Manager on the Clinical Innovation and Research team at Two Chairs, a tech-enabled mental health platform focused on using technology to support personalized care. She leads initiatives to advance Measurement-Based Care (MBC), developing scalable, high-quality systems that empower clinicians to improve the therapy experience for clients. Dr. Perera has designed MBC frameworks for academic medical clinics and is also the founder of Natal Counseling, a boutique practice dedicated to providing tech-enhanced mental health support for individuals navigating fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum challenges.

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Andrea Graham, PhD

Andrea Graham, PhD is Assistant Professor and Chief of the Division of Implementation Science in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is Co-Director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs). Her program of research focuses on the design, optimization, and implementation of digital mental and behavioral health interventions. She applies human-centered design methods to design digital tools that meet users’ needs and implementation plans that support the integration of digital interventions into practice. She has a particular interest in disentangling core components of digital interventions that improve engagement and effectiveness, as well as collaborating across sectors to accelerate the translation of digital interventions from research into healthcare systems and community-based organizations.

Karen L. Fortuna, PhD, LICSW

Dr. Fortuna is an Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Co-Founder of the Collaborative Design for Recovery and Health (https://collabrh.org). As an international volunteer collaborative of patients, community health workers, peer support specialists, caregivers, policymakers and payer systems, the Collaborative uses community-based participatory research to facilitate the development, evaluation, and implementation of tools to develop a workforce of lay providers with lived experience expertuse to support similar others through peer support and evidence-based practices. Dr. Fortuna works with community members from vulnerable populations, such as older adults with multiple chronic health conditions, caregivers of people with dementia, and people with disabilities and behavioral health challenges. Dr. Fortuna’s research has been funded by the National Insistute for Mental Health and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Insistute (PCORI). As a former Chair of the Patient Engagement National Advisory Council to PCORI, Dr. Fortuna had the opportunity to shape strategies that amplify patient voices in healthcare research, ensuring that outcomes are patient-centered and impactful. Currently, Dr. Fortuna serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Primary Care and Achieving Whole Health. This role allows her to contribute to advancing comprehensive healthcare solutions that integrate physical, mental, and social health for vulnerable populations. Dr. Fortuna has more than 120 peer-reviewed publications co-authored with patient partners in journals such as Journal of the American Medical Association-Open Network and the Lancet. Her work has been featured in national media outlets such as Forbes and Fox Business. Dr. Fortuna is a current Health and Aging Policy Fellow and an American Political Science Congressional Fellow. As a fellow, her efforts have focused on shaping primary care and technology policies that address the needs of populations who face early mortality and may not have the chance to live into older adulthood.