Fifth Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry

Time

Content

Speaker

 12:00 – 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

 12:10 – 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

 12:40 – 1:00pm

Moderated Discussion/Q&A:

Moderator: 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

 1:00 – 1:05pm

Brief Section Introduction

 1:05 – 1:50pm

Ensuring an Equitable Future for Psychiatric Precision Therapeutics

 1:05 – 1:50pm

Panel Moderator: Benjamin Lê Cook, PhD, MPH Morris E. Chafetz Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Vice Chair of Research, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance

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

 1:50 – 2:00pm

BREAK

 2:00 – 2:05pm

Brief Section Introduction

 2:05 – 3:05pm

In Search of Precision Biomarkers

 2:05 – 2:25pm

Causal Diversity in Precision Psychiatry

Dani S. Bassett, PhD

J. Peter Skirkanich Professor, University of Pennsylvania

 2:25 – 2:45pm

Tapping into Cognition: Connecting Brain Imaging and Digital Biomarkers for Precision Psychiatry

Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD

University of Illinois Center for Depression and Resilience (UI CDR) Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine

2:45 – 3:05pm

Mapping Brain Circuit Targets for Neuromodulation

Michael Fox, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

 3:05 – 3:25pm

Highlighted Discussion/Q&A:

Moderator: Dost Öngür, MD, PhD

Chief, Division of Psychotic Disorders, McLean Hospital; William P. and Henry B. Test Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 3:25 – 3:30pm

Brief Section Introduction

 3:30 – 4:15pm

New Directions for Precision Therapeutics

 3:30 – 4:15pm

 Panel Moderator: Joan A. Camprodon, MD, MPH, PhD Chief, Division of Neuropsychiatry & Neuromodulation, Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology, Harvard Medical School

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

 4:15 – 4:20pm

Closing Remarks

Time

Content

Speaker

 9:00 – 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

 9:10 – 9:40am

Conference Keynote

French Program on Precision Psychiatry

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, Fondation FondaMental

 9:40 – 10:00am

Moderated Discussion/Q&A:

Moderator: 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

 10:00 – 10:05am

Brief Section Introduction

 10:05 – 11:05am

AI in Precision Psychiatry

 10:05 – 10:25am

AI Beyond Evil Robots

Roy Perlis, MD, MSc

Editor in Chief, JAMA+ AI; Director, Center for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital

10:25 – 10:45am

AI in Mental Health: Framing the Discussion With Facts

John Torous, MD, MBI

Director of the Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

10:45 – 11:05am

Highlighted Discussion/Q&A:

Moderator: Chris J. Kennedy, PhD

Researcher, Center for Precision Psychiatry; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 11:05 – 11:10am

Brief Section Introduction

11:10am – 12:10pm

Real-World Implementation of Predictive Risk Models: Health and Beyond

 11:10 – 11:30am

Ethical Challenges in Implementing Genetic Risk Predictions for Educational Attainment

Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD

Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, Department of Medicine and Department of Medical Humanities & Ethics, Columbia University

 11:30 – 11:50am

From Publication to Pragmatic Trial: Barriers and Facilitators to Deploying Healthcare AI

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:

Moderator: Stephen Bartels, MD, MS Director, The Mongan Institute, James J. and Jean H. Mongan Professor of Health Policy and Community Health, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Professor Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 12:10 – 12:20pm

BREAK

 12:20 – 12:25pm

Brief Section Introduction

 12:25 – 12:55pm

Emerging Innovators in Precision Psychiatry

 12:25 – 12:35pm

Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Suicide as a Complex Dynamical System

Shirley B. Wang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University

 12:35 – 12:40pm

Highlighted Discussion/Q&A: 

Moderator: Karmel Choi, PhD
Director, Precision Prevention Program, Center for Precision Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

12:40 – 12:50pm

Psychedelics as Immune Modulators of Brain Plasticity in Stress-Related Disorders

Michael A. Wheeler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, The Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

12:50 – 12:55pm

Highlighted Discussion/Q&A:

Moderator: Karmel Choi, PhD
Director, Precision Prevention Program, Center for Precision Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

 12:55 – 1:00pm

Brief Section Introduction

 1:00 – 1:45pm

Precision Therapeutics: Promise and Pain Points

Panel Moderator: Maurizio Fava, MD Chair, Mass General Brigham Academic Medical Centers Psychiatry Department Executive Director, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI) Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

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 

1:45 – 1:50pm

Closing Remarks