Center for Precision Psychiatry

Our mission is to integrate research and clinical practice to enable more accurate risk prediction, targeted prevention, precise diagnosis and effective treatments for psychiatric disorders.

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The MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry (CPP) hosts hybrid seminars (in-person and Zoom) weekly on Fridays from 1:00 - 2:00pm ET. View upcoming presentations below.

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Upcoming Seminars



Friday, April 18th, 2025 – 1:00-2:00pm
Imaging-genetics Investigations Using Brain MRI biobanks and the Electronic Health Record
Aaron AB

Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MPhil, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia






Friday, May 9th, 2025 – 1:00-2:00pm
Neurodiversity in Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health
Walid Y

Walid Yassin, DMSc, MMSc
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School




Past Seminars

Aaron Kucyi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University
The Neural Basis of Spontaneous Thought and Implications for Precision Psychiatry

Gamze Gursoy, PhD, Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University
Balancing Innovation, Privacy, and Efficiency in AI for Health

Dina Katabi, PhD, Thuan and Nicole Pham Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, Director of MIT’s Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
Artificial Intelligence Detects Antidepressant Use from Nocturnal Breathing

Paola Pedrelli, PhD, Associate Director, Depression Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Beyond Algorithms: Can AI Grasp the Human Soul when Leveraged for Depression Assessment and Therapy?

Hugo Schnack, PhD, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University
How to Arrive at Valid and (Clinically) Relevant Prediction Models in Psychiatry?

Hilary Weingarden, PhD, Clinical Research Director at HabitAware; Licensed psychologist.
Digital Research to Enhance the Assessment and Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

David C. Mohr, PhD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Digital Mental Health Treatments: Bridging Research to Implementation

Cindy Liu, PhD, Director of Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Program, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
In-the-Moment Behavioral Responses: Developmental Approaches and Potential New Methods To Detect Risk Trajectories in Children and Families

Jessica Lipschitz, PhD, Clinical Investigator within the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Digital Tools in Precision Psychiatry - An Implementation Science Perspective

Jeanne Savage, PhD, Assistant Professor within the Department of Complex Trait Genetics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Genetic Heterogeneity of Alcohol Misuse: Implications for Precision Medicine

Riley Mangan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT.
Pathway-Centric Personalized Precision Psychiatry by Single-Cell Multiomics-Genetics-EHR Integration

Jyotishman Pathak, PhD, FACMI, Frances & John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics and Psychiatry at Cornell University, NY.
Safe and Ethical Use of AI for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Learning Health Systems Perspective

Michael Wainberg, PhD, Principal Investigator, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Computer Science, and Biostatistics, University of Toronto.
Mining the UK Biobank for Novel Coding-Variant Associations with Brain Diseases

Eric Ross, MD, Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont.
How much should we be willing to pay for antidepressant pharmacogenetic testing?

Awais Aftab, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University.
Psychiatric Diagnoses as Scientific and Social Kinds

Margaret Westwater, PhD, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford; Lab Associate at Yale.
Characterizing the Biological and Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Disordered Eating

Tamar Sofer, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and at the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
New Approaches for Studying Sex Differences in Health and Disease