John Torous

John Torous, MD MBI

Co-Director of Digital Psychiatry Program, BIDMC


I am a psychiatrist with a background in electrical engineering and computer sciences. My passion is mental health technology and guiding safe and evidence based mobile technology towards clinical use in psychiatry. With my combined background I have built and programmed mental health research apps, conduced several app evaluation studies with clinical populations, and published over 30 peer-reviewed papers related to mobile mental health technologies. However, I also understand that that technology alone is not a panacea and have studied the ethical implications of smartphone apps in clinical care and chair the American Psychiatric Association work group on smartphone app evaluation. Generating transparent, reproducible, and actionable mobile health research results is my passion

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