The Society of Digital Psychiatry in collaboration with JMIR Mental Health, a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by JMIR Publications, invites you to a webinar titled Exploring Smartphone Apps as Innovative Tools for Psychological Treatment.
Smartphone apps offer a novel approach for delivering psychological treatments across a range of mental health conditions. Dr. Imogen Bell will share her research on the Mello app (https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e47860) for depression/anxiety, focusing on translating ideas into clinically useful applications and exploring how new ideas can progress through funding, clinical studies, published papers, and real-world implementation. Discussion topics for this webinar will include the future of apps in psychiatry, best practices for user-centered design, global mental health collaborations, and clinical implementation considerations.
Date: April 29th at 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET / April 30th at 7 am AWST / 9 am AEST
Panelists:
John Torous, MD, MBI; Co-Founder, Society of Digital Psychiatry
Dr Torous is the director of the Digital Psychiatry division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an affiliated teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, where he also serves as a staff psychiatrist and member of the academic faculty. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer sciences; he earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, before pursuing medical school at the University of California, San Diego. Dr Torous completed his psychiatry residency, fellowship in clinical informatics, and master’s degree in biomedical informatics at Harvard. He actively investigates the potential of mobile mental health technologies for psychiatry and has published over 75 peer-reviewed articles and 5 book chapters on the subject. Dr Torous serves as the editor in chief of JMIR Mental Health, leads the American Psychiatric Association’s work group on the evaluation of smartphone apps, and is an advisor to the smartphone mood study within the National Institutes of Health’s 1-million-person All of Us research program.
Imogen Bell
Dr Imogen Bell is an NHMRC Early Leadership Fellow and Psychologist based at Orygen, the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She oversees a program of research on the development, evaluation, and implementation of innovative new digital treatments for youth mental ill-health that leverage smartphone apps, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality technologies. She brings a translational and multidisciplinary approach to her work which prioritizes traditional research methods such as randomized controlled trials, alongside industry practices in human-centered design, software development, and business strategy.