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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 25th and Friday, September 26th, 2025.
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 28, 2025. 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
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5th Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry
Thursday September 25th - Friday, September 26th, 2025
DAY ONE: Thursday, September 25th, 2025 (12:00 PM - 4:20 PM EDT)
Time | Content | Speaker | |
12:00pm-12:10pm | Welcome Remarks | Jordan 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 | To Discover Biomarkers for Precision Psychiatry We Must Retire the DSM Steven E. Hyman, MD Core Institute Member and Director, Program in Brain Health, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor & Harald McPike Professor | |
12:40pm-1:00pm | Moderated Discussion/Q&A: Jordan 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 | Ensuring an Equitable Future for Psychiatric Precision Therapeutics | ||
1:05pm-1:50pm | Panel
| Francisco A. Moreno, MD Associate Vice President, University of Arizona Health Sciences- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Tenured Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine- Tucson
Michelle N. Meyer, PhD, JD, Chief Bioethics Officer, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger College of Health Sciences Shazia Siddique, MD, MSHP, Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | |
1:50pm-2:00pm | BREAK | ||
2:00pm-2:05pm | Brief Section Introduction | ||
2:05pm-3:05pm | In Search of Precision Biomarkers | ||
2:05pm-2:25pm | Dani S. Bassett, PhD, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor, University of Pennsylvania | ||
2:25pm-2:45pm | Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD, University of Illinois Center for Depression and Resilience (UI CDR) Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine | ||
2:45pm – 3:05pm | Michael Fox, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital | ||
3:05pm-3:25pm | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: | ||
3:25pm-3:30pm | Brief Section Introduction | ||
3:30pm - 4:15pm | New Directions for Precision Therapeutics | ||
3:30 pm-4:15pm | Panel
| Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, PhD Associate Director, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry
Prof. Hugh Marston, PhD, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Boehringer Ingelheim | |
4:15pm-4:20pm | Closing Remarks | ||
DAY TWO: Friday, September 26th, 2025 (9:00 AM - 1:50 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; Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, MGH Center for Genomic Medicine |
9:10am-9:40am | Conference Keynote | Marion Leboyer, MD, PhD, Professor and vice-chair of the Dept of Psychiatry & Addictology Mondor Hal, AP-HP, Univ Paris Est Créteil; Director, Translational NeuroPsychiatry laboratory, Inserm U 955; CEO, Foundation FondaMental |
9:40am-10:00am | Moderated Discussion/Q&A: Jordan 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 | |
10:00am-10:05am | Brief Section Introduction | |
10:05am-11:05am | AI in Precision Psychiatry | |
10:05am-10:25am | Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, Editor in Chief, JAMA+ AI; Director, Center for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital | |
10:25am-10:45am | John Torous, MD, MBI, Director of the Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School | |
10:45am-11:05am | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: | |
11:05am-11:10am | Brief Section Introduction | |
11:10am-12:10pm | Implementing Risk Models/Scores in Real World Clinical Settings | |
11:10am-11:30am | Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, Department of Medicine and Department of Medical Humanities & Ethics, Columbia University | |
11:30am-11:50am | Colin Walsh, MD, MA, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center | |
11:50am-12:10pm | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: | |
12:10pm-12:20pm | BREAK | |
12:20pm-12:25pm | Brief Section Introduction | |
12:25pm-12:55pm | Emerging Innovators in Precision Psychiatry | |
12:25pm-12:35pm | TBD | |
12:35pm-12:40pm | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: | |
12:40pm-12:50pm | TBD | |
12:50pm-12:55pm | Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: | |
12:55pm-1:00pm | Brief Section Introduction | |
1:00pm-1:45pm | Precision Therapeutics: Promise and Pain Points | |
| Panel
| Husseini K. Manji, MD, FRCPC, Co-Chair of the UK Government Mental Health Mission, Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at University of Oxford, University, adjunct Professor at Yale University, visiting Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University
Magali Haas, MD, PhD, Founder & Chair, Cohens Veterans Bioscience; Independent Board Member, Psilera
Nick Brandon, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Neumora |
1:45pm – 1:50pm | Closing 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
Steven E. Hyman, MD
Core Institute Member and Director, Program in Brain Health, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor & Harald McPike Professor
Francisco A. Moreno, MD
Associate Vice President, University of Arizona Health Sciences- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; Tenured Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine - Tucson
Michelle N. Meyer, PhD, JD
Chief Bioethics Officer, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences, Geisinger College of Health Sciences
Shazia Siddique, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dani S. Bassett, PhD
J. Peter Skirkanich Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD
University of Illinois Center for Depression and Resilience (UI CDR) Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine
Michael Fox, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, PhD
Associate Director, MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry
Prof. Hugh Marston, PhD
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Boehringer Ingelheim
Marion Leboyer, MD, PhD
Professor and vice-chair of the Dept of Psychiatry & Addictology Mondor Hal, AP-HP, Univ Paris Est Créteil; Director, Translational NeuroPsychiatry laboratory, Inserm U 955; CEO, Foundation FondaMental
Roy Perlis, MD, MSc
Editor in Chief, JAMA+ AI; Director, Center for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital
John Torous, MD, MBI
Director of the Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD
Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, Department of Medicine and Department of Medical Humanities & Ethics, Columbia University
Colin Walsh, MD, MA, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Husseini K. Manji, MD, FRCPC
Co-chair of the UK Government Mental Health Mission, Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Oxford, University, adjunct Professor at Yale University, visiting Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University
Magali Haas, MD, PhD
Founder & Chair, Cohens Veterans Bioscience; Independent Board Member, Psilera
Nick Brandon, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, Neumora
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