11th Annual MGH Leadership Council for Psychiatry Visiting Day
Morning Seminar: Digital Technology
Moderator:
Lee S. Cohen, MD
Presenters:
Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
Addressing the Crisis in Mental Health Care Though Digital Technologies
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Daphne J. Holt, MD, PhD
The Use of Virtual Reality to Build Resilience and Improve Mental Health
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Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD
The New Tools of Precision Psychiatry and the Potential to Predict Suicide Risk
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Lee S. Cohen, MD
Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Philanthropy and Department Communications
Dr. Lee S. Cohen is a national and international leader in women’s mental health and was among the founders of the field of perinatal and reproductive psychiatry. His work spans the domains of research, teaching, and clinical care in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, especially those associated with female reproductive function. These include psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the post-partum period, depression in midlife women and issues related to infertility and mental health.
Dr. Cohen is founder and director of the Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women’s Mental Health and director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program at Mass General. He is the Edmund N. and Carroll M. Carpenter Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles, abstracts, and book chapters and has received numerous distinguished awards for his research, mentorship of trainees and teaching. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, his medical degree from Albany Medical College and completed his residency and a fellowship in psychopharmacology at Mass General.
Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
Chief of Psychology
Dr. Sabine Wilhelm is director of the Center for OCD and Related Disorders and the Center for Digital Mental Health. Her early work focused on the development and testing of new treatments for adults, adolescents and children suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder, tic disorders and body dysmorphic disorder. Her recent research focuses on the use of cutting-edge technology to improve and personalize mental health care for a range of mental health concerns.
A Harvard Medical School Professor, Dr. Wilhelm has over 300 publications, including seven books, and has given more than 255 lectures on these subjects. She is the recipient of the Peter K. Ranney Innovation Award from the World Medical Innovation Forum for her presentation “Bridging the Mental Health Treatment Gap” and the Claflin Distinguished Scholar in Medicine Award. She is currently working on smartphone-based treatments for OCD, body dysmorphic disorder and depression. Her ultimate goal is to use technology-based interventions to enhance access to high quality mental health interventions globally.
Daphne Holt, MD, PhD
Director of the Resilience and Prevention Program
Dr. Daphne Holt is using virtual reality technology to develop approaches for quantitatively measuring emotional and social functions, including automatic social behaviors such as personal space preferences, and improving these abilities. Dr. Holt is director of the Emotion and Social Neuroscience Lab and director of the Resilience and Prevention Program, a clinical and research program focused on developing interventions to increase resilience of youth and adults with risk factors for developing psychiatric illnesses. She is also co-director of the Psychosis Clinical and Research Program, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and a MGH Research Scholar (2018-2023).
Dr. Holt has been a faculty member of the Mass General Psychiatry Department since 2004 and also faculty at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She received her MD and PhD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She then went on to complete her clinical training at the MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency Program and a fellowship in clinical research and neuroimaging at the Martinos Center.
Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD
Associate Chief of Psychiatry for Research
Dr. Jordan Smoller is a psychiatrist, epidemiologist and geneticist whose research focus is understanding the genetic and environmental determinants of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan and using big data to advance precision mental health and improve methods to reduce risk and enhance resilience.
Dr. Smoller is director of the Center for Precision Psychiatry at Mass General where he directs the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Center for Genomic Medicine and the Omics Unit of the Division of Clinical Research He is the MGH Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Tepper Family MGH Research Scholar (2014-2019). He is co-director of the Mass General Brigham Biobank. He is author of over 400 scientific publications and the book, The Other Side of Normal. He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard College and his medical degree at Harvard Medical School. After completing residency training in psychiatry at McLean Hospital, he received masters and doctoral degrees in epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he is professor of epidemiology.