Mobile and Electronic Health ARC Seminar | April 2025
Please join the Mobile & Electronic Health ARC on Wednesday, April 30th from 12-1pm for our virtual seminar, “Digital Mental Health Innovations: From Research to Real World Applications”.
Our presenter, Dr. John Torous, is director of the digital psychiatry division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital, where he also serves as a staff psychiatrist and associate professor. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer sciences and received an undergraduate degree in the field from UC Berkeley before attending medical school at UC San Diego. He completed his psychiatry residency, fellowship in clinical informatics, and master’s degree in biomedical informatics at Harvard. Dr. Torous is active in investigating the potential of mobile mental health technologies for psychiatry and has published over 300 peer reviewed articles and 5 book chapters on the topic. He directs the Digital Psychiatry Clinic at BIDMC which seeks to improve access to and quality of mental health care through augmenting treatment with digital innovations. Dr. Torous serves as editor-in-chief for the journal JMIR Mental Health, web editor for JAMA Psychiatry, and is a member of the FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee.
For more information about the seminar, please see the attached flyer. The Zoom details are included below:
Date: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Time: 12:00-1:00PM Eastern Time
https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/96981092524?pwd=wQOmK9srkn9csKVoc1DV8EPexHaXyD.1
Meeting ID: 969 8109 2524
Passcode: 318098
Please feel free to reach out with any questions!
ME-ARC PI & Director: Belinda Borrelli, Ph.D.; Leadership Team: Daniel Fulford, Ph.D. (Co-Director), Joanne Murabito, M.D. (Co-Director), and Lisa Quintiliani, Ph.D.