Technology in Psychiatry Summit

Tremendous advances in science and technology have enabled greater understanding of the brain, yet mental health care remains inaccessible and inadequate for much of the world’s population.

McLean Hospital’s Institute for Technology in Psychiatry (ITP) brings together thought leaders in health care, data science, technology, industry, patient advocacy, academic research, and more for this two-day summit to build on the promise of technology in the diagnosis and delivery of mental health care.

This event is targeted at an inclusive group of academics, data scientists, clinicians, technology developers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, investors, patient advocates, and health professionals who are interested in shaping the future of mental health care.

The ITP partners with like-minded organizations looking to integrate technology into the field of psychiatry to improve research and care. If you are interested in affiliating your brand with the Technology in Psychiatry Summit, please contact the ITP.

2019 SUMMIT: THE FUTURE OF MENTAL HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN

The 2019 Technology in Psychiatry Summit will be held on October 28-29, 2019 at Harvard Medical School’s Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in Boston.
 

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Deep discounts are available to students and academic trainees. Contact the ITP for details.

As research around digital psychiatry rapidly expands, it has become evident that there remains a vast potential for the application of technology across clinical populations. The 2019 summit will focus on understanding how the application of technology varies among children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults. The conference will further explore how technology can enhance care in major neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and dementia. For the first time, the meeting will also invite panel proposals from researchers around the world. With this in mind, the theme of the summit will be “The Future of Mental Health Across the Life Span.”

With keynote addresses, panel discussions, and a poster session, attendees will examine the evolving state of global mental health efforts, cutting-edge trends in neurosciences, and new technologies and analytical tools that are cross-cutting traditionally separate disciplines to help address some of the world’s most challenging mental health problems.

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Professionals from across disciplines are invited to submit proposals for oral and poster presentations at the 2019 Technology in Psychiatry Summit. Proposals are due by Tuesday May 28, 2019 11:59pm EST, and selected presenters will be notified by July 1, 2019.

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Become a Sponsor

Our initiative to build a more accessible future is made possible by the support of gracious companies with like-minded goals. Become a sponsor of the 2019 Technology in Psychiatry Summit to help us further our mission to close the gaps between study and practice in mental health care.

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Sponsorship Levels

Diamond Sponsor ($25,000)

• Networking reception sponsorship
• Recognition by ITP leadership during the event
• Table in vendor expo for demonstrations
• Full page color ad and listing as sponsor in event program
• Ten event tickets
• Logo featured on summit website
• Social media announcement when sponsorship is arranged
• Identification as sponsor in the ITP newsletter

Platinum Sponsor ($20,000)

• Poster session sponsorship
• Table in vendor expo for demonstrations
• Half page color ad and listing as sponsor in event program
• Eight event tickets
• Logo featured on summit website
• Social media announcement when sponsorship is arranged
• Identification as sponsor in the ITP newsletter

Gold Sponsor ($10,000)

• Lunch sponsorship
• Table in vendor expo for demonstrations
• Listing as sponsor in event program
• Six event tickets
• Logo featured on summit website
• Social media announcement when sponsorship is arranged
• Identification as sponsor in the ITP newsletter

Silver Sponsor ($5,000)

• Coffee break sponsorship
• Table in vendor expo for demonstrations
• Listing as sponsor in event program
• Four event tickets
• Logo featured on summit website

Copper Sponsor ($2,500)

• Listing as sponsor in event program
• Two event tickets

For more information on sponsoring the 2019 Technology in Psychiatry Summit, please contact Sue DeMarco at 617.855.3451.

2019 Sponsors

We wish to thank the 2019 sponsors of the Technology in Psychiatry Summit.

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We are also grateful for the support of our past sponsors.

Highlights from the 2018 Summit

The 2018 Technology in Psychiatry Summit was held on November 1-2, 2018. The theme was “Closing Gaps in Translation,” both in the sense of using technology and pervasive sensing approaches to advance the detailed cross-species study of behavior in order to help bridge the human-nonhuman translational gap, as well as applying these approaches to improve mental health in under-resourced areas both globally and in the US (i.e., developing robust cross-cultural models of mental illness and culturally-tailored therapeutics).

Keynote Speakers

From Promise to Reality: Harnessing Technology to Address the Global Mental Health Crisis

Michelle A. Williams, SM, ScD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Williams is the dean of the Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator, and a widely recognized academic leader. Prior to becoming dean in 2016, she was professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and program leader of the Population Health and Health Disparities Research Programs at Harvard’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Center.

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Mood Dynamics: Tracking and Treating Stress and Depression

Alex “Sandy” Pentland, PhD, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics Labs

Dr. Pentland is the director of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the “seven most powerful data scientists in the world.” He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.

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Enabling Technologies: Toward Bridges Across Translational Gaps in Psychiatry

Bruce Cuthbert, PhD, NIMH Research Domain Criteria

Dr. Cuthbert is the director of the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project to develop neuroscience-based criteria for studying mental disorders. He previously served as the director of the Division of Adult Translational Research and Treatment Development and as the chief of the Adult Psychopathology Research Branch at NIMH. He is known for his research on the psychophysiology of emotion and translational research on the psychopathology of anxiety disorders. He was elected president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in 2004, and is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

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Opening remarks were delivered by Scott L. Rauch, MD, president and psychiatrist in chief, McLean Hospital, and Justin T. Baker, MD, PhD, scientific director of the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry. Closing remarks were offered by Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, chief scientific officer, McLean Hospital.

Panels

Open Access: Expanding Mental Health Care in Diverse Communities Globally and in the US

Speakers:

• Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Partners Connected Health
• Kimberlyn Leary, PhD, MPA, McLean Hospital
• David Mohr, PhD, Northwestern University
• Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Moderator: Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH, McLean Hospital

Technology is already narrowing gaps in our ability to translate mental health care strategies across global and local contexts, sometimes taking successes from the developing world and applying them in under-resourced areas in first and second world regions.

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De-Risking Digital Development: Unpacking the Innovation Pipeline in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Speakers:

• David Epstein, PhD, National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Aaron Josephson, ML Strategies
• Lisa Marsch, PhD, Dartmouth University
• Dawn A. Sugarman, PhD, McLean Hospital
• Moderator: David Barash, MD, GE Foundation

Despite the potential for “digital therapeutics” to transform the treatment landscape in behavioral health, the path through the digital development process is complex and evolving.

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Advancing Animal-Human Translational Science

Speakers:

• Bill Carlezon, PhD, McLean Hospital
• Sandeep “Bob” Datta, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
• Cameron Good, PhD, US Army Research Lab
• Rogier Landman, PhD, McGovern Institute
• Moderator: Elizabeth Phelps, PhD, Harvard University

Objective, continuous measurements, acquired over extended periods in ethological environments, could transform the therapeutic pipeline and deepen our understanding of functionally-relevant circuit neuroscience.

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Harnessing Natural Language for Prediction and Prevention

Speakers:

• Guillermo Cecchi, MSc, PhD, IBM Watson Research
• Cheryl Corcoran, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Thomas McCoy, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Shairi Turner, MD, MPH, Crisis Text Line
• Moderator: Jeffrey Girard, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

Human communication is at the core of all clinical interactions, especially in mental health, since changes in social function and use of language are often among the first noticeable clues of an emerging psychiatric illness or impending episode.

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Leveraging Social and Electronic Communications in Evaluation and Treatment

Speakers:

• Munmun De Choudhury, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Sharath Guntuku, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Benjamin Silverman, MD, Harvard Medical School
• Ipsit Vahia, MD, McLean Hospital
• Moderator: Mona Potter, MD, McLean Hospital

This panel discusses the hypothesis that, at least in some instances, the diagnosis and treatment of a patient with a mental illness might be aided if the treating mental health professional has access to what the patient is communicating to others via social media, emails, and texts.

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The Future of Behavioral Forecasting

Speakers:

• Justin T. Baker, MD, PhD, McLean Hospital
• Adam Chekroud, PhD, Spring Health
• Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
• Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
• Moderator: Laura Germine, PhD, McLean Hospital

Understanding the brain and human behavior with sufficient precision to accurately forecast future properties of a neural circuit or of an individual undergoing treatment for a mental health condition would transform our ability to tailor illness monitoring, circuit-based interventions, and care delivery based on those predictions.

Poster Session

The 2018 summit included a poster session. Over 35 abstracts were on display, with topics ranging from digital health applications to investigations of human-computer interaction, pervasive sensing, phenotyping at scale, and more.

Highlights from the 2017 Summit

The 2017 Technology in Psychiatry Summit was a first of its kind event targeted at bringing together the nation’s top technology and mental health experts to build on the promise of technology in the diagnosis and delivery of mental health care. Among the who’s who of presenters were Tom Insel, MD, former NIMH director, Ken Duckworth, MD, of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Roz Picard, ScD, of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT, and Sarah Lenz Lock, JD, of the AARP.

Keynote Speakers

Opening Remarks

Scott L. Rauch, MD, President, McLean Hospital

Dr. Rauch is president, psychiatrist in chief, and Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Chair of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He is also professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School as well as chair of Psychiatry and Mental Health for Partners Healthcare. His principal research interests relate to neuroimaging and the neurobiology of affective disorders. Dr. Rauch and colleagues have been leaders in delineating the neurocircuitry of anxiety disorders as well as pioneers in using modern technology, including brain stimulation, neurosurgery, and internet-based methods, to develop novel treatments for anxiety and mood disorders.

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Keynote

Sarah H. Lisanby, MD, Division of Translational Research, National Institute of Mental Health

Dr. Lisanby is the director of the Division of Translational Research and director of the Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit at NIMH. Her division supports research to accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into preventions, treatments, and cures for mental illness, and her individual research focuses on neurostimulation devices and mental illness treatments.

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Keynote

Roz Picard, ScD, MIT Media Lab

Dr. Picard is the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Media Lab’s Advancing Wellbeing Initiative, faculty chair of MIT’s MindHandHeart Initiative, and co-founder of Empatica, Inc. (creating wearable sensors and analytics for health improvement) and Affectiva Inc. (technology that measures and communicates emotion). Her inventions apply to a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders and human-computer interaction.

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Keynote

Thomas Insel, MD, Mindstrong Health

Dr. Insel is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, and is the current president and co-founder of Mindstrong Health. He was formerly the director of the NIMH from 2002-2015, and more recently led the mental health division of Verily Life Sciences from 2015-2017.

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Closing Remarks

Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, McLean Hospital

Dr. Ressler is chief scientific officer and James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, after serving at Emory University for 18 years. He is also a professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and current president of the Society for Biological Psychiatry. Dr. Ressler’s lab focuses on translational research bridging molecular neurobiology in animal models with human genetic research on emotion, particularly fear and anxiety disorders.

Panels

Connecting with Technology: Why Psychiatry Needs Data Science

Speakers:

• Justin T. Baker MD, PhD, Scientific Director, Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital
• Susan A. Murphy, PhD, Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
• John Torous, MD, Co-Director, Digital Psychiatry Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Moderator: Carol Vallone, Trustee, McLean Hospital

Advances in technology are creating almost limitless potential sources of data for understanding health and human behavior. This panel will focus on how we can take advantage of some of these data sources in the clinic and in the research laboratory using modern data analytic and machine learning approaches to generate insights and improve clinical care.

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Data Blitz

Innovators in academia, medicine, and technology deliver brief talks on cutting-edge topics.

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Digital Diagnostics: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Mental Health Assessment

Speakers:

• Armen C. Arevian, MD, PhD, Director, Innovation Lab, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
• Louis-Philippe Morency, PhD, Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University Language Technology Institute
• Andrea Webb, PhD, Group Leader, Psychophysiologist, Draper Laboratories
• Satra Ghosh, PhD, Principal Research Scientist, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
• Moderator: Alik Widge, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital

Recent advances in computing now allow us to measure aspects of behavior and physiology that would not have been feasible even a handful of years ago. This panel will showcase examples of cutting-edge tools for understanding the brain and behavior that are low cost and scalable, towards a future of “digital diagnostics” that can be leveraged to increase the accessibility and impact of mental health services.

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Reinventing the Psychiatric Laboratory

Speakers:

• Laura Germine PhD, Assistant Director, Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital; Director, The Many Brains Project
• Lara Mangravite, PhD, President, Sage Bionetworks
• Matthew K. Nock, PhD, Director, Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research, Harvard University
• Jukka-Pekka Onnela PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Moderator: Carey Goldberg, Editor, CommonHealth

Technological and social advancements are changing the way science is conducted. Methods for remote data collection, collaboration, and data sharing have led to new approaches to mental health research that transcend geographical and institutional boundaries. This panel will discuss how we might conceptualize a laboratory of the future to lead us to a better understanding of mental health, the brain, and behavior.

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Digital Technology in Practice: Applications in Geriatric Health

Speakers:

• Jason Hassenstab, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychology, Washington University School of Medicine
• Dilip V. Jeste, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care, University of California, San Diego
• Sarah Lenz Lock, PhD, Senior Vice President for Policy, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
• Ipsit Vahia, MD, Medical Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Services, McLean Hospital
• Moderator: Brent P. Forester, MD, MSc, Chief of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, McLean Hospital

The implications of a rapidly growing population of older adults on health care costs, housing, and public policy are well-recognized. The world of aging is at the forefront of innovation in the use of technologies to support independent living, maximized functioning, and improvements in cost, efficiency, and personalization of clinical care. This session will focus on exploring how the worlds of aging, technology and mental health can intersect and what might be the most fruitful areas to explore within this domain.

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From Insights to Actions: Strategies for Care Transformation

Speakers:

• Ken Duckworth, MD, Medical Director, Behavioral Health, BCBS Massachusetts
• Oliver Harrison, MD, MPH, Chief Executive, Alpha Health, Telefonica Innovation
• Kimberlyn Leary, PhD, MPA, Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Executive Director, Policy Outreach, McLean Hospital
• Gary Gottlieb, MD, CEO, Partners in Health
• Moderator: Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of Women’s Mental Health, McLean Hospital

Digital technologies have the potential to transform mental health care, particularly among groups that have traditionally been hard to reach due to lack of access, education, or resources. In this session, leading experts in technology, policy, and public health will discuss how we might take the insights generated from clinical and basic research and translate them to improvements in care and access to care. Discussion will focus on how to address the gap between the availability of mental health services and the pressing need for such services globally.

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Ethics and Privacy in the Era of Big Data

Speakers:

• Alisa Busch, MD, MS, Chief Medical Information Officer, McLean Hospital
• Kristin N. Javaras, DPhil, PhD, Assistant Psychologist, Division of Women’s Mental Health, McLean Hospital
• Michelle N. Meyer, JD, PhD, Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System
• Theresa Nguyen, Vice President of Policy and Program, Mental Health America
• Moderator: Christopher Chabris, PhD, Professor, Geisinger

Large-scale adoption of effective digital health technologies will depend on coming up with appropriate social and technical infrastructure. At the core of this infrastructure is the need to balance privacy and security with transparency, openness, sharing, and the rights of individuals to own and make decisions about their own health and health data. In this session, leaders in privacy, access, and ethics will discuss the biggest challenges and potential ways forward in building a future where effective technologies work for society and individuals.

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