Please Note* This program will be held Virtually via Zoom Video Livestream. All program times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
The Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry, hosted by the MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry, is becoming a leading venue for showcasing advances in the application of precision medicine approaches to psychiatric research and clinical practice. The Conference will be held virtually over the course of two days: Thursday, September 26th and Friday, September 27th, 2024.
MDs/Doctoral-Level Professionals: $300
Other Professionals: $200
Students/fellows/interns: Free
You must create an account through the MGH Psychiatry Academy to register for this event. MGH Psychiatry Academy accounts are not limited to MGH employees. We welcome attendees from around the world and from any organization.
We provide all attendees with completely free access to all slide presentations in digital PDF format prior to the conference. This is an environmentally friendly alternative and helps keep costs lower for all attendees. The e-syllabus will be available for 30 days after the conference.
A refund minus a $100.00 administrative fee will be issued for refund requests received by August 29, 2024. Payments made may not be applied to future conferences or other educational activities. There are no exceptions to these policies.
This program is intended for clinicians, researchers, trainees, students, investors, industry leaders, and all those interested in mental health, healthcare innovation, and research across all geographic locations
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
Thursday September 26th - Friday, September 27th, 2024
PROGRAM AGENDA
DAY ONE: Thursday September 26th, 2024 (12:00 PM - 4:15 PM EDT)
Time | Content | Speaker | |
12:00pm-12:10pm | Welcome Remarks | JORDAN W. SMOLLER, MD, ScD Director, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, MGH Center for Genomic Medicine | |
12:10pm-12:40pm | Conference Keynote | Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD Professor & Chair, Dept of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School Editor-in-Chief, NEJM AI
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12:40pm-1:00pm | Moderated Discussion/Q&A: Moderator: JORDAN W. SMOLLER, MD, ScD Director, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, MGH Center for Genomic Medicine | ||
1:00pm-1:05pm | Brief Section Introduction | ||
1:05pm-1:50pm | Precision Therapeutics from an Industry Lens | ||
1:05pm-1:50pm | Panel Moderator: TBD | Amit Ethkin, MD, PhD Founder and CEO, Alto Neuroscience Adjunct Professor, Stanford University Nikolaos Mellios, MD PhD Chief Scientific Officer, Circular Gennomics Chia-Yen Chen, ScD Associate Director, Computation Biology and Genomics; Genomic Medicine, Translational Sciences, Biogen
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1:50pm-2:00pm | BREAK | ||
2:00pm-2:05pm | Brief Section Introduction | ||
2:05pm-3:05pm | Computational Psychiatry | ||
2:05pm-2:25pm | Martin P. Paulus, MD Scientific Director and President, Laureate Institute for Brain Research
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2:25pm-2:45pm | Frederike Petzschner, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Carney Institue for Brain Science, Brown University. | ||
2:45pm-3:05pm | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: Moderator: Justin Baker, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Director, Laboratory for Functional Neuroimaging and Bioinformatics, McLean Hospital | ||
3:05pm-3:10pm | Brief Section Introduction | ||
3:10pm-4:10pm | Precision Psychiatry: Parsing Heterogeneity | ||
3:10 pm-3:30pm | Conor Liston, PhD Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine
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3:30pm-3:50pm | Na Cai, DPhil Principal Investigator, Helmholtz Munich, Pioneer Campus
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3:50pm-4:10pm | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: Moderator: Avram Holmes, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers University | ||
4:10pm-4:15pm | Closing Remarks | ||
DAY TWO: Friday, September 27th, 2024 (9:00 AM - 1:05 PM EDT)
Time | Content | Speaker |
9:00am-9:10am | Welcome Remarks | JORDAN W. SMOLLER, MD, ScD Director, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, MGH Center for Genomic Medicine
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9:10am-9:40am | Conference Keynote | Rosalind Picard, Sc.D., FIEEE Founder and Director of Affective Computing Research, MIT, Media Lab |
9:40am-10:00am | Moderated Discussion/Q&A: Moderator: TBD | |
10:00am-10:05am | Brief Section Introduction | |
10:05am-10:50am | Ethical, Legal, and Social Controversies in Precision Psychiatry | |
10:05am-10:50am | Panel
Moderator: Jordan W. Smoller, MD, ScD
| Paul Appelbaum, MD Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine & Law, Columbia University
Francis Shen, PhD Professor of Law & Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota; Chief Innovation Officer, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior
Anna C F Lewis, DPhil Research Scientist, Genomes2People Research Program, Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School |
10:50am-10:55am | Brief Section Introduction | |
10:55am-11:55am | Can We Improve Prediction and Early Prevention? | |
10:55am-11:15am | Eiko Fried, PhD Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, Leiden University
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11:15am-11:35am | Katharina Schultebraucks, PhD Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Population Health Co-Director, Computational Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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11:35am-11:55am | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: Moderator: Karmel Choi, PhD. Director, Precision Prevention Program, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry | |
11:55am-12:00pm | Brief Section Introduction | |
12:00pm-12:40pm | Precision Treatment Selection: Who Needs What and When? | |
12:00pm-12:20pm | Rob J. DeRubeis, PhD Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
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12:20pm-12:40pm | Roger McIntyre, MD, FRCPC Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of Toronto
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12:40pm-1:00pm | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: Moderator: TBD | |
1:00pm-1:05pm | Closing Remarks | |
Faculty:
JORDAN W. SMOLLER, MD, ScD
Director, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, MGH Center for Genomic Medicine
MAURIZIO FAVA, MD
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, MGH; Vice Chair, MGH Executive Committee of Research; Executive Director, MGH Clinical Trials Network Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD
Professor & Chair, Dept of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Editor-in-Chief, NEJM AI
Paul Appelbaum, MD
Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine & Law, Columbia University
Na Cai, DPhil
Principal Investigator, Helmholtz Munich, Pioneer Campus
Rob J. DeRubeis, PhD
Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Eiko Fried, PhD
Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, Leiden University
Anna C F Lewis, DPhil
Research Scientist, Genomes2People Research Program, Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School
Conor Liston, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine
Roger McIntyre, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, University of Toronto
Martin P. Paulus, MD
Scientific Director and President, Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Rosalind Picard, Sc.D., FIEEE
Founder and Director of Affective Computing Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab
Katharina Schultebraucks, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Population Health
Co-Director, Computational Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Francis Shen, PhD
Professor of Law & Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota; Chief Innovation Officer, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior
Please check back for CE information
Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD – Director, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry; Director, MGH Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Professor in Epidemiology, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health
Victoria Dobrzycki, BS – Marketing and Administrative Coordinator, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry
Karmel Choi, PhD – Director, Precision Prevention Program at MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry; Clinical Psychologist at MGH; Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School
Ashley Seiger, MSc – Program Director, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry
Hardware/Software Specifications
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Optimal System Configuration
Flash Player: Adobe Flash Player 10.1+
Browser: Firefox 3+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Safari 4.0+, or Google Chrome 7.0+
Operating System: Windows XP+ or Mac OS X 10.4+
Internet Connection: 1 Mbps or higher
Minimum Requirements
Windows PC:500-MHz Pentium II; Windows XP or higher; 128 MB RAM; Video Card at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card at least 16-bit; Macromedia Flash Player 10 or higher, audio playback with speakers for programs with video content; Firefox 1.1+, Internet Explorer 7.0+, Safari 1.0+, Google Chrome, or Opera
Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher with latest updates installed; 1.83MHz Intel Core Duo or faster; RAM: 128MB or more; Video Card: at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card: at least 16-bit
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