Join the next Society of Digital Psychiatry and JMIR Mental Health webinar
Growing Up Online: Social Media, Digital Therapeutics, and Youth Mental Health - February 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM ET
Featured Speaker
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Dr Iliyan Ivanov, MD
Dr. Ivanov is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Morningside. His clinical expertise focuses on the assessment and treatment of youths with ADHD, childhood trauma, mood and anxiety disorders, and substance use disorders in adolescents and young adults. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including work in The American Journal of Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, and Neuropsychopharmacology, and has contributed more than 10 chapters to leading psychiatric textbooks, including Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry and the Dulcan Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Ivanov is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), a past President and current Board Member of the New York Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and a member of the APA Research Council. His honors include the 2019 Hulse Award from the NY Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and AACAP Outstanding Mentor Awards in 2016 and 2025.
Read Dr Ivanov’s related work here and here.
Why should I attend?
Join Dr. Iliyan Ivanov and Dr John Torous for an in-depth discussion on the impact of social media and digital therapeutics on youth mental health. Drawing from extensive clinical and research experience, Dr. Ivanov will explore how increased digital device use, remote learning, and social media exposure—particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic—have influenced the assessment, treatment, and outcomes of children, adolescents, and young adults. The session will highlight both challenges and emerging opportunities for clinicians working with digitally immersed youth populations.
John Torous, MD, MBI
Dr. Torous is director of the Digital Psychiatry division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. With a background in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley, he earned his MD at UC San Diego and completed his psychiatry residency, clinical informatics fellowship, and master’s in biomedical informatics at Harvard. An expert in mobile mental health technologies, he has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 5 book chapters. Dr. Torous also serves as Editor-in-Chief of JMIR Mental Health.