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

Thu Sep 14 15:46:17 EDT 2017

I'm saying you should turn your attention away to more fruitful endeavors
than trying to fix our political system.  It's broken.  Forget it.  Go to
court.  Add your body and voice to the young marchers.

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> "I thought you guys would be interested in this."
>
>
> Ha!  Would or should?   What are you saying here?
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Merle Lefkoff <
> merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 14, 2017 1:36:43 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Fwd: Future Tense Event: The Future of Mental Health
> Technology
>
> I thought you guys would be interested in this.
>
>
>
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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>
>
>
>
>   [image: future tense]
>
> *The Future of Mental Health Technology*
> <http://NewAmerica.cvent.com/d/B4dZUFM4vEidUXisB5tOMQ/z9gw/P1/4W?>
>
> [image: The Future of Mental Health Technology]
> <http://NewAmerica.cvent.com/d/B4dZUFM4vEidUXisB5tOMQ/z9gw/P1/4W?>
> Register to Attend
> <http://NewAmerica.cvent.com/d/B4dZUFM4vEidUXisB5tOMQ/z9gw/P1/4W?>
>
> *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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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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