Trainee & Early-Career Showcase 2025
Event Details:
Join us on Wednesday, February 26th 12-1pm (PT) for our annual Trainee & Early-Career Showcase!
Featuring current and recent trainees, as well as early-career researchers and clinicians from Stanford and the VA, this event shines a spotlight on those driving innovation in technology-based mental health interventions. Each presenter will share insights into a recent, ongoing, or upcoming project, followed by an interactive Q&A where attendees can ask questions, provide feedback, and spark discussion.
Our goal for this event is to showcase their work, create opportunities for valuable feedback, foster connections, and inspire collaboration within the Tech Hub community. We hope you’ll join us in supporting and learning from the next generation of innovators in mental health technology!
Meet the presenters:
Dr. Betsy Stade, Ph.D., Stanford and Dr. Cody Boland, Ph.D., VA Palo Alto (NCPTSD):
Dr. Stade is a computational clinical psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford working on AI mental health applications. Dr. Boland is a clinical psychologist and research scientist at the VA’s National Center for PTSD Mobile Apps Team. In therapy, homework quality and quantity predict treatment outcomes, yet rates of homework completion are low. Together, Drs. Stade and Boland will discuss their exploratory work on how AI might be used to help patients get more out of their therapy homework.
Dr. Declan Grabb, M.D., Stanford:
Dr. Grabb is a forensic psychiatry fellow, a research fellow in Stanford's Center for AI Safety, and the inaugural AI Fellow in Stanford's Brainstorm Lab. Dr. Grabb will present on two recent papers:
- An interdisciplinary evaluation at scale of mental health stigma and unsafe responses in LLM's and user-facing therapy bots (led by Jared Moore at Stanford and submitted to FAccT).
- A creation of a dataset meant to improve upon currently existing medical benchmarks and datasets in mental healthcare (co-led with Max Lamparth, from Stanford's Center for AI Safety).
Dr. Ilang M. Guiroy, M.D., Stanford:
Dr. Guiroy is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist as well as a NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellow and Sorensen Foundation Fellow. Dr. Guiroy will discuss how a proposed text message group therapy (TMGT) is necessary and acceptable to peripartum mothers. She will share recommended features from focus groups among racial-ethnic minority mothers of babies with lower income and depression.
Zoom link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91960022807?pwd=iR1NF5r58HEADBLSTbcFroWDuU5Gam.1&from=addon