John Torous
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Dean Lloyd Minor welcomes John Torous, MD, director of digital psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, for a conversation about AI’s potential to expand access to mental health care and enhance diagnosis and treatment. They discuss how AI can help detect mental distress from an individual’s digital footprint and how it can use data to inform personalized care plans. They also explore the promise and pitfalls of chatbots, how consumers can assess digital health tools, and how the mental health field is evolving to integrate digital health with in-person care — to the benefit of more patients.
John Torous
John Torous, MD, MBI, is the director of the digital psychiatry division in the department of psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He leads the American Psychiatric Association’s panel dedicated to evaluating smartphone apps, and serves as editor-in-chief of JMIR Mental Health, an academic journal dedicated to publishing research about technology and mental health. Torous has dedicated the most recent decade of his research to the evaluation of mobile mental health technologies and apps. He leads the Digital Psychiatry Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, with the goal of improving access to and quality of mental health care in digital innovations. Dual-board certified in both psychiatry and clinical informatics, Torous completed his psychiatry residency, a fellowship in clinical informatics and a master’s degree in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and a medical degree from the University of California San Diego.
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