Accelerating Digital Mental Health: The Society of Digital Psychiatry’s Three-Pronged Road Map for Education, Digital Navigators, and AI

John Torous   ¹ , MD ;   Kathryn Taylor Ledley   ¹ , BA ;   Carla Gorban   ² ;   Gillian Strudwick   ³ , RN, PhD ;   Julian Schwarz   ⁴ , MD ;   Soumya Choudhary   ⁵ , MSc, PhD ;   Margaret Emerson   ⁶ , APRN, DNP, PMHNP-BC ;   Michelle Patriquin   ⁷ , PhD, ABPP ;   Allison Dempsey   ⁸ , MEd, PhD ;   Jason Bantjes   ⁹ , PhD ;   Laura Ospina-Pinillos   ¹⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Jennie Hornick   ¹¹ , BA ;   Shruti Kochhar   ¹¹ , MS

¹ Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States

² The Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

³ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Center for Mental Health, Immanuel Hospital Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Rüdersdorf, Germany

⁵ Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

⁶ College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Ohama, NE, United States

⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston, Houston, TX, United States

⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States

⁹ Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute for Life Course Health Research, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia

¹¹ JMIR Publications, Toronto, ON, Canada