Smartphones and Psychiatry: A 2022 Update

September 29, 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Online

Event sponsored by:

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Neurology
School of Medicine (SOM)

Contact:

Lefebvre, Cathy

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John Torous, MD, MBI

Speaker:

John Torous, MD, MBI
John Torous, MD MBI is director of the digital psychiatry division, in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School affiliated teaching hospital, where he also serves as a staff psychiatrist and assistant 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 200 peer reviewed articles and 5 books chapters on the topic. He serves as editor-in-chief for JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org/), web editor for JAMA Psychiatry, currently leads the American Psychiatric Association's Health IT Committee, and is a senior member in IEEE. Link to join: https://duke.zoom.us/j/99465403300

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