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

The digital mental health panel, facilitated by Antoun Nabhan, JD, brought together James R. Doty, MD, Nichol Bradford, Daniel Kraft, MD, and Danny Gladden, MBA, MSW, LCSW, to share their experiences using and creating digital tools for mental health.

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.

James R. Doty, MD, is a compassion researcher, neuroscientist, neurosurgeon, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founding director of the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), and former CEO of Accuray (NASDAQ:ARAY). Dr. Doty is the New York Times bestselling author of Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discovery the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart, and the founder of Happi AI, a data-driven tech startup that uses artificial intelligence and neuroscience to generate a personalized virtual friend to help people with stress, anxiety & depression.

Nichol Bradford is fascinated by human potential and technology. She is the CEO & Founder of the Willow Group and the Executive Director and co-founder of the Transformative Technology Lab, Conference, and TT200 List. Prior to becoming a leader in Transformative Technology, Bradford was a senior executive in video games with responsibility for strategy, operations and marketing for major brands that include: Activision Blizzard, Disney, and Vivendi Games — including operating World of Warcraft China.

Daniel Kraft, MD, is a Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic &Health Alliance Task Force. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and is founder and chair of Exponential Medicine. 6x TedX and TEDMED speaker. Voted Digital Health Top 50.

Danny Gladden, MBA, MSW, LCSW, is General Manager and Director of Behavioral Health and Social Care for Oracle Health with responsibility for Oracle Cerner’s behavioral health and social care solutions. A licensed clinical social worker, former community BH & SUD practice COO and a practicing mental health and SUD treatment clinician, Danny champions real time, barrier free access to mental health and SUD treatment services with a particular focus working with consumers at risk of suicide and those living with severe and persistent mental illness. Danny previously served as clinical leader of a National Suicide Prevention and Veterans crisis contact center and is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Social Work at St. Louis University School of Social Work.

Antoun Nabhan, JD, is a biotech and medical device investor and executive. He is the former VP of Pear Therapeutics, CFO of Establishment Labs, and VP of Corporate Development at Sagamore Bioventures.

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