Addressing the Global Mental Health Crisis with Scalable Precision Psychiatry | Well-Being Series
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Synopsis
This talk focuses on how novel technologies can address the two central problems of psychiatry: Scale + Subjectivity.
With 1 billion people today needing access to some form of mental healthcare, our current standard of care cannot meet even a tenth of this demand. In addition, psychiatry is the only remaining major field of medicine that lacks objectivity. This lack of objective measurement is blocking progress and is a major barrier to effectively integrating mental health services into the global healthcare economy.
This situation has to change, and this talk by Dr. Bechara Saab through his work at Mobio Interactive will provide evidence for how.
Mobio Interactive (MI) meets the exploding demand for mental healthcare with AI-powered digital thera-gnostics - the combination of therapy and diagnostics. MI delivers clinically validated psychotherapy programmes that are personalized with cutting-edge computer vision algorithms and AI-enabled objective and accurate measure of cognitive stress from mobile selfie video.
MI serves a variety of medical conditions, from postpartum depression to pediatric traumatic brain injury. Globally significant milestones:
world-leading accuracy of stress measurement from mobile selfies
first organization to show app-based meditation can outperform placebo
objective personalisation delivering 2.5x efficacy - proving that precision psychiatry can be scaled
The company’s intervention treating cancer-related post traumatic stress is expected to receive regulatory clearance by the FDA, Health Canada and Singapore’s HSA in 2023.
MI’s unique go-to-market strategy spans established and emerging markets with powerful proof points, delivering precision psychiatry at scale for the first time in history.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Bechara Saab
Founding CEO Mobio Interactive
As the CEO of Mobio Interactive (MI), Dr. Saab works with his team to build digital tools that empower better living and faster healing. Until 2017, he was a Principal Investigator of the Zurich Neuroscience Centre where his laboratory at the Psychiatry Hospital focused on understanding molecules and neural circuits that give rise to the motivation to explore.
He discovered a molecular link between environmental exploration and spatial learning, and in doing so observed an active role for the hippocampus in motivational behaviour. These results were recently extended by the lab and the labs of others to reveal roles of cortical and subcortical inputs to the hippocampus in novelty-driven exploration, research made possible by recent advancements in optogenetics in the freely behaving animal in combination with wireless electrophysiology, PET and fMRI. Together, this avenue of research has shed light on the mechanisms underscoring the intimate relationships between exploration, efficient learning and cognitive disease.
At the circuit level, the importance of curiosity for healthy living is the inspiration for the therapies delivered to patients via the digital therapeutics platform AmDTx. He has dedicated his career to science outreach and mentorship. He firmly believes that face-to-face interaction between researchers and students stands to benefit society on many levels.
He was instrumental in establishing the Mount Sinai Hospital Outreach Program SciHigh, was Editor-in-Chief of Hypothesis, received the inaugural CIHR Award for Mentorship, represented Switzerland at Famelab 2012 and have been an invited as an speaker seven times to the world's longest-running Science Documentary Film Festival, AFO in the Czech Republic. He is an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a member of the Swiss Stress Network, an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychology, and a Canadian nominee to the World Economic Forum as a Future World Leader.
Yen-Lu Chow
Founding Executive Chairman WholeTree Foundation; Over-The-Rainbow; Asia Institute of Mentoring; Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab; Executive Mentor YSI SEA; Founder of the Deep Human Movement
Yen-Lu’s career spans nearly 40 years in the tech, media, venture capital, and more recently social entrepreneurship and philanthropy. A former Apple Distinguished Technologist, he is a successful entrepreneur with multiple tech start-ups and an active angel investor, spending many years mentoring and advising entrepreneurs, young businesses and serving on government panels on innovation. He served as a director of Business Angel Network SEA, executive mentor and adjunct professor to NUS Enterprise, mentor to INSEAD, numerous panels on entrepreneurship and innovation internationally, including IDA / SPRING, A*STAR, NRF, GMIC, NUS StartUp@Singapore, NUS Social Venture Competition, NTU Idea Inc, Thailand National Business Plan Competition, CrowdSourcing Week, etc.
In a fast-paced world where the only constant is change, he believes there is an urgent need for each of us to draw on our strengths and creative potential as human beings, to connect with our higher self and our deeper purpose to contribute towards humanity in a positive and impactful way. He enjoys building ecosystems and mobilizing the community to create positive social change. As an early pioneer in the application of AI, he also has a strong base in the tech space. With the launch of his family foundation and other social impact initiatives, Yen-Lu devotes his time serving both society and the nation in his various capacities.
He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just, and sustainable world.
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