Our Annual Conference
The Center's Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry
The Center for Precision Psychiatry hosts an annual conference every autumn. This conference, hosted by the Center, the Mass General Department of Psychiatry, and the Psychiatry Academy, has already begun to become a leading venue for showcasing advances in the application of precision medicine approaches to psychiatric research and clinical practice. So far, the conference has drawn an average of 1,000 registrants and has featured outstanding speakers.
The conference is designed to cover a broad range of domains including:
- Applications of AI & machine learning in psychiatry
- Genomics and other "-omics"
- Precision therapeutics
- Risk stratification for suicide and other important outcomes
- mHealth and digital technologies
- Implementation science
- Ethics
Stay tuned for more information about the 6th Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry: Innovation to Implementation.
Past Conferences
2025: Fifth Annual Conference
Our fifth Annual Conference, "Innovation to Implementation", was held virtually on September 25 and 26, 2025. The conference featured keynotes by Dr. Steven E. Hyman, Core Institute Member and Director, Program in Brain Health, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and Dr. Marion Leboyer, Professor and vice-chair of the Dept of Psychiatry & Addictology Mondor Hal, AP-HP, Univ Paris Est Créteil.
For the first time, the Center for Precision Psychiatry recognized the next generation of leaders in the field of through the Emerging Innovators in Precision Psychiatry Award. Congratulations to awardees Dr. Shirley Wang and Dr. Michael Wheeler, and finalists Drs. Joshua E. Curtiss, David Benrimoh, and Dongmei Zhi.
The CPP also hosted two workshops during the conference week: Hands-on AI in Precision Psychiatry and Predictive Models in Neuroimaging. Participants explored core concepts such as supervised and generative AI, and predictive modeling techniques in fMRI, gaining practical skills with user-friendly tools and real-world neuroimaging datasets.
View highlights from the 2025 Conference here.
2024: Fourth Annual Conference
Our fourth Annual Conference, "Innovation to Implementation", was held virtually on September 26th and 27th, 2024. The Conference was held in partnership with the Mass General Department of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Mass General Center for Genomic Medicine. The conference featured Keynotes by Dr. Isaac Kohane, Professor & Chair within the Dept. of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of Affective Computing Research at MIT.
View highlights from the 2024 Conference Here!
2023: Third Annual Conference
Our third Annual Conference, "Innovation to Implementation", was held virtually on September 29th and 30th, 2023. The Conference was held in partnership with the Mass General Department of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Mass General Center for Genomic Medicine. The conference featured Keynotes by Dr. John Krystal, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, and Dr. Helen Mayberg, Director of The Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
View highlights from the 2023 Conference Here!
2022: Second Annual Conference
Our second Annual Conference, "Innovation to Implementation", was held virtually on November 2nd and November 3rd, 2022. The Conference was held in partnership with the Mass General Department of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Mass General Center for Genomic Medicine. The conference featured keynote addresses from Dr. Kelsey Martin, Director of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), and Dr. Thomas Insel, former Director of NIMH and author of Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health (Penguin Press, 2022). (1).png)
2021: First Annual Conference
Our first Annual Conference, "The Promise of Precision Predication, Prevention, and Treatment in Mental Health", was held virtually on September 30th and October 1st, 2021. The Conference was held in partnership with the Mass General Department of Psychiatry and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Mass General Center for Genomic Medicine. The Conference featured a Keynote address from Dr. Joshua Gordon, and an opening plenary from Dr. Joshua Denny. 