[FRIAM] Fwd: Future Tense Event: The Future of Mental Health Technology

[Merle Lefkoff]

I thought you guys would be interested in this.



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From: Future Tense <events at newamerica.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:17 PM
Subject: Future Tense Event: The Future of Mental Health Technology
To: Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>



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*The Future of Mental Health Technology*
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*Though the impact our digital habits have on mental health may be
increasingly grabbing the spotlight, there’s less talk about how these same
technologies may one day be used to revolutionize how we treat mental
illness. From chatbots that provide therapeutic conversation to apps that
can monitor phone use to diagnose psychosis or manic episodes, medical
providers now have new technological tools to supplement their first-hand
interactions with patients. Even virtual reality, a technology that has yet
to find its footing in popular entertainment, is making waves in the
treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.*

These technologies are evolving rapidly—more rapidly than their regulation.
Are we on the verge of a new era in psychiatric care, or will these
treatments go the way of other now-condemned methods? Can algorithms
reinvent our understanding of depression, anxiety, addiction, and other
psychological issues, or at least make them easier to treat? Or is the
industry known for "moving fast and breaking things” essentially at odds
with a field governed by an oath “to first, do no harm”?

Join Future Tense in Washington, D.C. to consider how innovations in
technology are reimagining the way we treat mental illness.

*Future Tense <http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense.html>*
is a partnership of *Slate
<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense.html>*, *New America
<http://www.newamerica.org/>*, and *Arizona State University
<http://www.asu.edu/?feature=research>*.

Breakfast will be served.

*Agenda:*

*9:00-9:45: Your Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now*

*Dr. John Torous,* *@JohnTorousMD <https://twitter.com/JohnTorousMD>*
Co-director, Digital Psychiatry Program at Beth Israel Deaconess​, Harvard
Medical School

*Dr. Steven Chan,* *@StevenChanMD
<https://twitter.com/StevenChanMD?lang=en>*
Clinical Informatics Fellow, UC San Francisco, Hospital Medicine &
Psychiatry

*David Dobbs,* *@David_Dobbs <https://twitter.com/David_Dobbs>*
Journalist

*Moderator:*
*Torie Bosch,* *@thekibosch <https://twitter.com/thekibosch>*
Editor, Future Tense

*9:45-10:00: Virtual Reality, Real Healing*

*Skip Rizzo, PhD*
Director, Institute for Creative Technologies at USC
Research Professor, USC Davis School of Gerontology and USC Keck School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

*10:00-10:45: How Computer Science Is Reinventing Psychiatry*

*Skip Rizzo, PhD*
Director, Institute for Creative Technologies at USC
Research Professor, USC Davis School of Gerontology and USC Keck School of
Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

*Munmun de Choudhury, PhD,* *@munmun10 <https://twitter.com/munmun10>*
Assistant Professor, The School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech

*Dr. Sarah Fineberg, PhD*
Instructor, Yale University Department of Psychiatry

*Moderator:*
*Torie Bosch,* *@thekibosch <https://twitter.com/thekibosch>*
Editor, Future Tense

*The Future of Mental Health Technology*
Thursday, September 28, 2017
9:00 AM – 10:45 AM EST
740 15th Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005

Follow the conversation online using *#FTMentalHealth*
<https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23FTMentalHealth> and following
*@FutureTenseNow* <http://www.twitter.com/FutureTenseNow>.

Live streaming of this event will be available on the *New America website
<https://www.newamerica.org/future-tense/events/future-mental-health-technology/>*
.

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-- 
Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Visiting Professor in Integrative Peacebuilding
Saint Paul University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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