David C. Mohr, Ph.D. is a Professor of Preventive Medicine and Chief of Behavioral Medicine in Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, with appointments in Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Social Sciences. He is Director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs; www.cbits.northwestern.edu) and leads the Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Mental Health. Dr. Mohr’s research lies at the intersection of behavioral science, technology, and clinical research, focusing on the design, evaluation, and implementation of digital mental health technologies and services. He has developed and evaluated numerous web-based, mobile, and text messaging interventions for depression and anxiety. While there has been much research over the past decades demonstrating the effectiveness digital mental health interventions, successful implementation in healthcare settings has been elusive. To address this research-to-practice gap, an overarching goal of Dr. Mohr’s current work is to design, evaluate and sustainably implement digital mental health services in real-world healthcare settings. Dr. Mohr has also conducted research in personal sensing, using smartphone sensor data to detect behaviors related to common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. The goal of this work is to develop more efficient tools that can respond to sensed states to provide just-in-time interventions. Dr. Mohr is President of the Society for Digital Mental Health and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Behavioral Medicine. His research has been consistently funded for more than 30 years by the NIH, other federal agencies, and numerous foundations, resulting in over 350 peer-reviewed publications, and more than 25 book chapters.
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