Multidisciplinary Training Program in Digital Mental Health Mentors
Each Multidisciplinary Training Program in Digital Mental Health fellow will have one mentor who is a mental health specialist and one who is a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) specialist. See a list of the mentors below.
Primary Mentors
Clinical Science in Mental Health (MH)
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Implementation science
Chief of Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Marginalized youth populations. including HIV+ and LGBT young people
Assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Automated behavioral monitoring systems and quantitative behavioral analysis to improve the treatment and understanding of neuropsychiatric disorder
Research Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Leveraging emerging technologies to study the vulnerability of anxiety and related psychopathology in adolescents and to develop and evaluate effective prevention programs designed to reduce the incidence of anxiety and related disorders.
Assistant professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Digital mental health in healthcare and university settings, coaching and support models
Research Associate Professor, Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Behavioral medicine / health psychology, integrated care, sexual and gender minority populations, sexual health, people living with HIV
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Perinatal mental health services delivery, psychoneuroimmunology, perinatal HIV, perinatal epidemiology.
Director, Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Medical Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Digital mental health, design and evaluation of remote and digital intervention services, personal sensing
Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: The adaptive role of positive emotion regulation in processes of coping with stress
Director, Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing
Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Translational research that improves the health of the LGBT community
Director, Center for Translational Health Research and Interventions advancing Equity for Sexual and Gender Minorities (THRIVE)
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Adolescent Health, Drug Abuse, Health Disparities, HIV Infection, Mental Health, Preventive Medicine
Co-director, Center for Community Health
Associate professor of Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Design and implementation of community-level mental health interventions, prevention of depression among perinatal women in home visitation and early childhood program
Associate Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center's Survivorship Institute
Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Advancing the evidence base of contemplative awareness practices (mindfulness, yoga), resilience and emotion regulation in cancer patient populations and other chronic illness, as well as medical students and healthcare providers; Developing novel digital health solutions to increase self-management, engagement, and social connection
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Associate professor of Communication Studies
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: How people manage attention and self-presentation as they work, play and otherwise interact using social technologies
Associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and Communication Studies
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Technology, design and innovation
Professor of Communication Studies
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: HCI, social computing and computer-mediated communication, focusing on applying cognitive and social psychological theories to the design, development and evaluation of novel collaboration technologies
Assistant professor of Communication Studies
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Social computing, spatial computing and their intersection
Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine and Computer Science
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Professor of Communication Studies and Health and Biomedical Informatics
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: HCI, Health Informatics, Digital Mental Health, user-centered design, collaborative technologies
Assistant professor of Communication Studies and Sociology
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Use of empirical and mostly quantitative methods to study collaboration, organization and participation in online communities where people engage in collective action and information sharing
Assistant professor of Computer Science
Breed Junior Chair of Design
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Social and crowd computing, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, educational technologies and decision science
Secondary Mentors
Clinical Science in Mental Health (MH)
Associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Integrating neuropsychiatry and behavioral intervention
Assistant professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Digital mental health and eating disorders
Associate professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Treatment and persistence of tobacco use and dependence among disadvantaged and underserved adult populations, including those with behavioral health disorders
Assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Development and implementation of technology-enabled sexual health promotion programs for young people, particularly sexual and gender minority youth
Assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Substance abuse and pregnancy
Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) - Center for Health Equity Transformation
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology (General Obstetrics and Gynecology), Preventive Medicine, Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Promoting health equity and eliminating health disparities among low income, medically underserved women across the lifespan
Director, Center for Behavior and Health
Chief of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Develops and evaluates theory-based, technology-supported interventions to promote healthy change related to poor-quality diet, physical inactivity, obesity and smoking
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Studies how pregnancy interacts with drug use to identify novel addiction treatment targets
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: patient-clinician communication, honoring patients' values and health priorities, managing multiple chronic conditions, shared decision-making; patient-reported outcomes, patient-generated data; population health informatics; computer-supported cooperative work, human-centered design, co-design
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies and Computer Science
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Human–computer interaction and information visualization, specifically communicating uncertainty, usable statistics, and personal informatics
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Research Interests/involvement in the Training Program: Optimization, with a particular interest in methods and models under data uncertainty