Center for Precision Psychiatry Seminar Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
In-the-Moment Behavioral Responses: Developmental Approaches and Potential New Methods To Detect Risk Trajectories in Children and Families

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
New Approaches for Studying Sex Differences in Health and Disease