ISRII 13th Scientific Meeting
Keynote Speakers
August 4-7, 2025, San Diego, California
We're excited to announce the keynote lineup for the ISRII 13th Scientific Meeting! From groundbreaking AI research to culturally adaptive interventions and youth mental health support, this year’s keynote speakers are leading the charge.
Register today to join us this August in beautiful San Diego and have the chance to connect with the international community of researchers, clinicians, and innovators advancing internet interventions. Whether you're looking for fresh inspiration, cutting-edge ideas, or simply the joy of being surrounded by like-minded people who share your passion, you won't want to miss ISRII's 13th Scientific Meeting!
Opening Keynote - Tuesday, August 5
Mary Czerwinski, PhD
Keynote Talk: Technology for Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace and Home
Dr. Mary Czerwinski is a recently retired Partner Research Manager of the Human Understanding and Empathy (HUE) Research Group at Microsoft Research. She is now an adjunct professor at the U of Washington. Mary's latest research focuses primarily on behavior change and intervention design, health and wellness for individuals and productivity at work. Her research background is in visual attention and multitasking. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Indiana University in Bloomington. Mary received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award, was inducted into the CHI Academy and received the Distinguished Alumni award from Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences. Mary is a Fellow of the ACM and the American Psychological Science Association. Mary was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2022. More information about Dr. Czerwinski can be found at her website.
Supporting Youth Through Digital Interventions
Bethany Teachman, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
Bethany Teachman is a Professor and the Director of Clinical Training at the University of Virginia in the Department of Psychology, and co-directs UVA TYDE: Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment. Dr. Teachman is Director of the public websites MindTrails, a web- and app-based research infrastructure that has offered digital interventions to reduce anxious thinking to thousands of visitors around the world, and Project Implicit Health, an educational website where over a million visitors have assessed their implicit associations tied to mental and physical health topics. Dr. Teachman has been awarded an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Early Career Award, multiple national mentoring awards, and she is a Fellow of multiple associations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and she received a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. Dr. Teachman currently serves on the Board of the Society for Digital Mental Health and she was the inaugural Chair of the Coalition for the Advancement and Application of Psychological Science.
Jana Haritatos, PhD, Chief Science Officer, Hopelab
As Chief Science Officer, Dr. Haritatos guides Hopelab’s scientific and innovation priorities by identifying new strategic opportunities for innovation at the intersection of science and technology in support of Hopelab’s mission. Prior to joining Hopelab, Dr. Haritatos received her doctorate in Psychology from the University of Michigan and was a fellow in Psychology & Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Psychiatry, where her research focused on psychological and socio-cultural determinants of health in immigrant and other diverse populations.
David Ball, MBA, Head of Well-Being, SecondMuse
For the past 20 years, David Ball has focused on creating economic drivers that incentivize positive societal and environmental outcomes. That mission has taken him around the world from work with the East African Community in Tanzania, to Major League Baseball in the Dominican Republic, to the National Park Service across the United States.
Over the last seven years, David has focused on addressing gaps in youth mental health and well-being support. Leveraging opportunities to influence and change aspects of the social technology, education, and health care sectors, the initiatives David has led have improved mental health outcomes for more than 12 million young people and caring adults.
Currently, David is the Head of Well-being at SecondMuse. He manages a portfolio of programs including the Headstream Accelerator - the only Accelerator in the world focused on youth mental health - a Youth Collective, and a growing body of work focused on providing schools with assistance to support student mental well-being.
David’s early career as a Peace Corps Volunteer and teacher rooted him in the complementary power of education and bringing communities together to collaboratively solve complex challenges.
Trailblazers Keynote Session - Thursday, August 7
Nicholas Jacobson, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Psychiatry, and Computer Science, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Talk Title: From passive insights to proactive personalized care: The synergy of passive sensing and generative AI in mental health
Nicholas Jacobson, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Psychiatry, and Computer Science at Dartmouth College, where he directs the AI and Mental Health: Innovation in Technology Guided Healthcare (AIM HIGH) Lab within the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. His research focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence and passive sensor data from smartphones and wearable devices to enhance the precision assessment and scalable treatment of anxiety, depression, and related conditions. Dr. Jacobson led the development and the first randomized controlled trial of Therabot, a generative AI system for psychotherapy, with results recently published in NEJM AI. He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed articles, and his smartphone applications for mental health have been downloaded by more than 50,000 people in over 100 countries. Dr. Jacobson is also the Principal Investigator of an R01 Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, studying the use of personalized deep learning models to predict rapid changes in major depressive disorder symptoms using passive sensor data.
Jennifer Nicholas, PhD
Talk Title: Digital mental health implementation at scale: approaches, challenges, and next steps.
Dr Jennifer Nicholas is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at Orygen Digital, University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD at the Black Dog Institute, and postdoctoral training at Northwestern University’s CBITs, before joining Orygen Digital in 2019. Dr Nicholas leads an innovative research program in digital mental health implementation, that focuses on how digital interventions can effectively and sustainably support the youth mental health system, and those who seek care. Working with interventions that harness the internet, smartphones, and virtual reality, she collaborates with diverse teams of developers, designers, and implementation facilitators to ensure digital mental health tools and resources are part of routine care.
Alicia Salamanca-Sanabria, PhD
Talk Title: Designing for diversity: Lessons from previous studies
Dr. Salamanca-Sanabria is a clinical psychologist from Colombia with extensive international experience in clinical practice and research. She completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with SilverCloud Health in Ireland, focusing on a culturally adapted internet-based CBT intervention for depression. Currently, she is a Research Scientist at A*STAR’s Institute for Human Development and Potential in Singapore, where she leads a randomized controlled trial of a holistic mHealth intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes and common mental disorders in women with a history of gestational diabetes (The HAPPY Study). She also recently secured funding to develop a digital intervention promoting sleep and mental well-being in adolescents (The DREAM Study).
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