2022-2023 Digital Mental Health Lecture Series The Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) Northwestern University, in collaboration with the Society for Digital Mental Health  Speaker To Be Announced.

Lyle Ungar, PhD., University of Pennsylvania “Understanding Psychological Traits Using Social Media Language" Lyle Ungar is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also holds appointments in Psychology, Bioengineering, Genomics and Computational Biology, and Operations, Information and Decisions.  He has published over 300 articles, supervised two dozen Ph.D. students,… Read More »Lyle Ungar, PhD: Understanding Psychological Traits Using Social Media Language

Jessica L. Schleider, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University “Understanding Psychological Traits Using Social Media Language" Dr. Jessica L. Schleider (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program at Stony Brook University (SUNY).  She also serves as a Faculty Affiliate at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and was an Academic Consultant to… Read More »Jessica L. Schleider, PhD: Harnessing Single-Session Interventions to Promote Mental Health at Scale

Dr. Nick Jacobson is a tenure-track assistant professor in the departments of Biomedical Data Science and Psychiatry within the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He directs the AI and Mental Health: Innovation in Technology Guided Healthcare (AIM HIGH) Laboratory. Dr. Jacobson researches the use of… Read More »Nicholas C. Jacobson, PhD: Utilizing Passively Collected Data in Daily Life to Enhance the Assessment and Treatment of Mental Health

Dr. Megan Jones Bell is clinical director of consumer and mental health at Google and gets to think about how to improve health for billions of people. She was formerly chief strategy and science officer at Headspace and helped guide Headspace through its transformation from a meditation app into a comprehensive digital mental health platform,… Read More »Megan Jones-Bell: Google’s approach to improving mental health

Sara Becker, PhD, is the Alice Hamilton Professor of Psychiatry and Inaugural Director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at the Northwestern Medical School. She conducts programmatic research designed to bridge the gap between public health knowledge (what we know) and public health practice (what we do). In 2021, Dr. Becker was honored… Read More »Sara Becker, PhD: Using Digital Health to Increase Access to Effective Treatment for Youth with Substance Use Disorders

Michael Schoenbaum (PhD in Economics, University of Michigan) is Senior Advisor for Mental Health Services, Epidemiology, and Economics in the National Institute of Mental Health's Division of Services and Intervention Research. He conducts analyses of mental health burden, service use and costs, intervention opportunities, and other policy-related issues, in support of Institute decision-making; and he… Read More »Michael Schoenbaum: Towards viable payment for effective digital therapeutics

Theresa Matson, PhD, MPH (Collaborative Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute), and Joseph Glass, PhD, MSW (Associate Investigator,  Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Washington Department of Health Systems and Population Health) “A Proposed Framework for Designing Trials Evaluating the Effectiveness and Implementation of Digital Behavioral Health Interventions." About… Read More »Kaiser Permanente: A Proposed Framework for Designing Trials Evaluating the Effectiveness and Implementation of Digital Behavioral Health Interventions

This year's theme is "Bringing Together Academia, Industry, and Healthcare to Collaboratively Advance Digital Mental Health" The meeting will be held 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern on June 20th and 21st. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together researchers, healthcare providers, payers, industry leaders, developers, patient advocates, regulatory organizations, and policy experts with the goal… Read More »2023 Annual Meeting of the Society for Digital Mental Health

2023-2024 Digital Mental Health Lecture Series The Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) Northwestern University, in collaboration with the Society for Digital Mental Health  Tim Althoff, PhD,  Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington. “How Human-AI Collaboration Will Improve Mental Health" Join us Tuesday, December 5th at: Noon to 1pm, Central Time Register to attend… Read More »Tim Althoff: How Human-AI Collaboration Will Improve Mental Health