The Society of Digital Psychiatry in collaboration with JMIR Mental Health, an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by JMIR Publications, invites you to a webinar titled ‘From Signals to Solutions: Making Digital Phenotyping Clinically Meaningful’.
Join Dr Abigail Ortiz and Dr John Torous for an in-depth conversation on translating digital phenotyping into actionable clinical insights. While enthusiasm continues to grow around wearable technology and the expansive potential of digital biomarkers, the field now faces a crucial inflection point. How do we move from exploratory data collection to structured, meaningful application in real-world clinical settings?
This webinar will focus on bridging the "AI chasm"—the gap between algorithm development and practical clinical use—ensuring that innovation leads to impact!
The webinar will be held on August 28, 2025, at 12 PM EST. To register, please use this link:
Guests:
Dr Abigail Ortiz, PhD
Dr. Ortiz completed her medical training in Mexico and her postgraduate studies at McGill University and Dalhousie University. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern, where she leads the Computational Psychiatry Program. As an expert in bipolar disorder, her research focuses on understanding mood regulation and forecasting episodes of illness using mathematical models and wearable technology. For her work, Dr. Ortiz has been presented with more than 15 awards in her career, including the Samuel Gershon Award by the International Society of Bipolar Disorders, and the Clinical Innovator of the Year by Digital Health Canada. As a Principal Investigator, she has secured national and international funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). FUN FACT: Dr. Ortiz is a certified yoga instructor.
Moderator:
John Torous, MD, MBI; Cofounder, 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 200 peer-reviewed articles and 5 book chapters on the subject. Dr Torous serves as the editor-in-chief of JMIR Mental Health.