Benjamin Silverman – Medical Professionalism in Digital Phenotyping (TIPS 2018)

Benjamin Silverman, MD, is an IRB Chair for the Partners Human Research Committee and an instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Silverman completed fellowship training in addiction psychiatry through the Partners HealthCare System, followed by fellowship training with the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, where he remains on the faculty and teaches medical ethics and professionalism to first year medical students. Dr. Silverman’s interests in ethics center on research ethics, in particular pertaining to research conducted with vulnerable populations, and on the ethical dilemmas related to privacy and boundaries that emerging information technologies present to clinicians.

These remarks were part of the 2018 Technology in Psychiatry Summit, an event sponsored by the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, which occurred November 1-2, 2018 at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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