Center for Precision Psychiatry Seminar Series

The Promise of Precision Psychiatry: Focus on Mechanisms of E/I Imbalance
Alan Anticevic, PhD
Senior Director, Head of Computational Neuroimaging Technologies, Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Leveraging Digital Phenotyping to Explore the Link Between Steps and Depression Symptoms
Julia Sealock, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Neale Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital
Broad Institute

From Neurons to Nicotine: Harnessing Brain Stimulation to Curb Smoking in Schizophrenia
Heather Burrell Ward, MD, Director of Neuromodulation Research, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Scaling Suicide Prevention: Technology for Access and Impact
Jonah Meyerhoff, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

The Everyday Emotional Experiences of Individuals with Depressive Psychopathology
Renee Thompson, PhD, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Neuroimaging’s Role in Precision Medicine: Enhancing Diagnostic Specificity and Fostering Equity and Inclusion
Jacob Ellegood, PhD, Neuroimaging Scientist, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto

Skills to Enhance Positivity (STEP): A Multi-modal Intervention to Reduce Suicidal Behaviors
Shirley Yen, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Director of Clinical Psychology Training Program, MMHC, Brown University

Mass General Brigham Patient History Dashboard
Thomas V Charlon, MEng, PhD, Research Associate - CELEHS Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

From Data to Decisions in Psychiatry: Developing Implementable AI for Real-World Treatment Guidance
Fiona Coutts, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London

Predictors and Mechanisms of Change in the Treatment of Depressed Adolescents
Christian A. Webb, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Machine Learning and LLMs in Healthcare: Usability, Privacy, and Accuracy
Kavishwar B. Wagholikar, MBBS PhD FAMIA, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital

New Algorithms for High-Dimensional Genomic Studies
Matthew Robinson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Machine Learning and LLMs in Healthcare: Usability, Privacy, and Accuracy
Alissa Valentine, MS, PhD Candidate at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Using Digital Technology and Intensive Longitudinal Data to Improve Precision Medicine Efforts in Bipolar Disorder
Sarah H. Sperry, PhD, Clinical Psychology, Richard Tam Early Career Professor of Translational Bipolar Research, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Leveraging EHR Data and AI to Advance Clinical Care
Li Zhou, MD, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI, FAMIA, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Psychiatric (poly)Genetic Epidemiology: A Perspective from Denmark
Andrew Schork, PhD, Senior Researcher and Group Leader, Copenhagen University Hospital

Epigenetic Signatures of Early-Life Adversity: Implications for Mental Health and Resilience
Alexandre Lussier, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Associate Member, Center for Genomic Medicine

Neuroimaging-AI Endophenotypes Reveal Underlying Heterogeneity, Overlap, and Genetic Factors in Human Diseases
Junhao (Hao) Wen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Visuocortical Dynamics of Affect-Biased Attention: Implications for Personalized Medicine
Mary Woody, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Large Language Models in Psychiatry: What LLMs ‘think’ of Psychiatric Patients
Marc Schubert, MD Candidate at Heidelberg University, Germany

Neurodiversity in Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health
Walid Yassin, DMSc, MMSc, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Imaging-genetics Investigations Using Brain MRI biobanks and the Electronic Health Record
Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MPhil, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The Neural Basis of Spontaneous Thought and Implications for Precision Psychiatry
Aaron Kucyi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University

Balancing Innovation, Privacy, and Efficiency in AI for Health
Gamze Gursoy, PhD, Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University

Artificial Intelligence Detects Antidepressant Use from Nocturnal Breathing
Dina Katabi, PhD, Thuan and Nicole Pham Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, Director of MIT’s Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

Beyond Algorithms: Can AI Grasp the Human Soul when Leveraged for Depression Assessment and Therapy?
Paola Pedrelli, PhD, Associate Director, Depression Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

How to Arrive at Valid and (Clinically) Relevant Prediction Models in Psychiatry?
Hugo Schnack, PhD, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University

Digital Research to Enhance the Assessment and Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Hilary Weingarden, PhD, Clinical Research Director at HabitAware; Licensed psychologist

Digital Mental Health Treatments: Bridging Research to Implementation
David C. Mohr, PhD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine

In-the-Moment Behavioral Responses: Developmental Approaches and Potential New Methods To Detect Risk Trajectories in Children and Families
Cindy Liu, PhD, Director of Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Program, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Digital Tools in Precision Psychiatry - An Implementation Science Perspective
Jessica Lipschitz, PhD, Clinical Investigator within the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School

Genetic Heterogeneity of Alcohol Misuse: Implications for Precision Medicine
JeanneSavage, PhD, Assistant Professor within the Department of Complex Trait Genetics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Pathway-Centric Personalized Precision Psychiatry by Single-Cell Multiomics-Genetics-EHR Integration
Riley Mangan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

Safe and Ethical Use of AI for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Learning Health Systems Perspective
Jyotishman Pathak, PhD, FACMI, Frances & John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics and Psychiatry at Cornell University, NY

Mining the UK Biobank for Novel Coding-Variant Associations with Brain Diseases
MichaelWainberg, PhD, Principal Investigator, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Computer Science, and Biostatistics, University of Toronto

How much should we be willing to pay for antidepressant pharmacogenetic testing?
Eric Ross, MD, Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont

Psychiatric Diagnoses as Scientific and Social Kinds
Awais Aftab, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University

Characterizing the Biological and Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Disordered Eating
Margaret Westwater, PhD, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford; Lab Associate at Yale

New Approaches for Studying Sex Differences in Health and Disease
Tamar Sofer, PhD,Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and at the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health