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Building a Precision Learning System for Youth Mental Health
Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD, an internationally recognized neuroscience researcher, is the Chief Science Officer and the founding director of the Center for Integrative Developmental Neuroscience (IDN) at the Child Mind Institute. He is also a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist.
About This Event
Youth mental health care is still largely organized around episodic assessments and diagnostic categories, despite the fact that symptoms, functioning, risk, and response to intervention change continuously over time and across contexts. This lecture will examine the development of a precision learning system for youth mental health that integrates clinical measurement, neuroscience, digital phenotyping, and longitudinal real-world signals to better characterize changing mental states and determine what works, for whom, when, and under what conditions.
Using examples from open-science datasets, digital interventions, ecological assessment, and responsible AI, the lecture will explore how these tools can augment clinical formulation, identify changes that may be missed between encounters, and create more adaptive pathways to prevention, intervention, and care. The broader challenge is not simply to build better apps or predictive models, but to develop an infrastructure in which research, clinical practice, and real-world experience continuously inform one another while preserving appropriate boundaries for human clinical judgment.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the core elements of a learning health system for youth mental health.
- Explain how longitudinal measurement, digital tools, and responsible AI can extend traditional models of mental health care.
- Distinguish between developing standalone digital mental health applications and building shared learning infrastructure.
About the Visiting Professor Lecture Series
The Child Mind Institute Visiting Professor Lecture Series invites leaders in the field of child and adolescent mental health to talk about the latest research and treatment protocols. All events are open to the public. Continuing medical education (CME) credits for psychiatrists and continuing education (CE) credits for psychologists and social workers are available to registered course participants. Learn more.
