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SODP Symposium: Live Virtually From Australia

SODP Symposium: Live Virtually From Australia
Advancing Digital Mental Health: AI, Youth Engagement, and Suicide Prevention

 September 30th, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
*September 29th, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM EST 

Featured Speakers

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Carla Gorban

Carla Gorban is a Digital Navigator and lived experience researcher with the Youth Mental Health and Technology team at The University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre. Her published work focuses on integrating the Digital Navigator role in youth mental health services to support personalized, digitally-enabled, measurement-based care. Drawing on her ongoing frontline experience, Carla continues to shape the development of the Digital Navigation field in Australia.

Jake

Dr. Jake Linardon

Dr. Jake Linardon is a Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University whose research program is focused on using innovative technology to advance the delivery of personalized interventions and assessments for mental disorders, with particular focus on eating disorders.

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Dr. Natasha Josifovski and Dr. Mark Larsen

Dr. Natasha Josifovski (presenting) 
Natasha Josifovski is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Black Dog Institute. Her research examines the social determinants of suicide, with a particular focus on minority populations, including LGBTQIA+ communities. She also explores how digital technologies can be leveraged to address these social determinants to prevent suicide.


Dr. Mark Larsen 
Mark Larsen is an Associate Professor in Digital Health at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health at the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on responsible and safe use of digital approaches and data for suicide prevention.

 

Why should I attend? 

The Society of Digital Psychiatry, in collaboration with JMIR Mental Health, an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by JMIR Publications, invites you to an exclusive symposium-style webinar spotlighting innovative research from leading digital mental health scholars across Australia.


This event will feature three distinguished speakers presenting their latest findings on pressing topics in digital psychiatry—ranging from the role of AI in research, to strategies for increasing youth engagement, to innovations in suicide aftercare.


Meet the Host

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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.