Precision Mental Health Panel | Mental Healthcare Innovations Summit at Stanford Medicine

The precision mental health panel, facilitated by Jess Northend, brought together Michael Snyder, PhD, Ruth O'Hara, PhD, Leanne Williams, PhD, and Jyoti Mishra, PhD, MBA, to discuss their research and experience in this field.

The Mental Healthcare Innovations Summit at Stanford Medicine brings together creators and action-oriented leaders across research, policy, government, funding, and mental health advocacy to build a cross-sector community and drive forward the powerful existing and emerging innovations in mental health to collectively reimagine what it is like to give and receive mental healthcare.

Michael Snyder, PhD, is an American genomicist, systems biologist, inventor and entrepreneur. He is the Stanford B. Ascherman Professor and as of 2009, Chair of Genetics and Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and the former Director of the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics. During his tenure as chair at Stanford, the U.S. News & World Report has ranked Stanford University first or tied for first in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics under his leadership. He is also the founder of 8+ biotech companies including QBio, JanuaryAI, Affometrix, and Personalis.

Ruth O’Hara, PhD, is the Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor at Stanford and is the Director of Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Research and Education (SPECTRUM), as well as the Senior Associate dean of Research at the Stanford School of Medicine. In 2021, she was elected as Chair of the Faculty Senate.

Leanne Williams, PhD, is the founding Director of the Stanford Center for Precision Mental Health and Wellness. The Center connects researchers across the campus to advance high definition imaging biotypes for mental health, sensor technology, machine learning approaches, targeted therapeutics and the world’s first biotype-guided trials.

Within her center, Dr. Williams leads the PanLab for Precision Psychiatry and Translational Neuroscience. The PanLab has developed a radical new way to understand and treat mental health disorders based on a personalized approach to neuroscience. Dr. Williams also leads department-wide initiatives in precision mental health as Associate Chair of Translational Neuroscience. She has a joint position at the Palo Alto VA Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center where she is Director of Education and Precision Medicine.

Jyoti Mishra, PhD, MBA, is trained in the computational, cognitive and translational neurosciences. She is the founder of the Neural Engineering & Translation Labs (NEATLabs) at UCSD. Her lab innovates digital technologies for scalable brain health mapping, monitoring and precision therapeutics. Dr. Mishra’s interdisciplinary research interests are at the intersection of neuroscience and digital engineering, integrating machine learning methods to personalize and inform mental healthcare, education, and climate change adaptation efforts.

Jess Northend is based at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where she supports leaders in understanding and responding to the next generation of emerging technologies. She previously worked with some of the UK’s leading businesses and Her Majesty’s Government to improve productivity across the UK economy. She has served as a fellow at Harvard University’s Project on Workforce and has been part of international teaching teams for leadership, ethics, and negotiation.

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