National Institutes of Health
Digital Health Interventions from Wellness to Therapeutics:
Development and Dissemination
July 12 – 13, 2022
Agenda
(All times are Eastern Daylight Time)
Tuesday, July 12
12:00 PM Noon Nora Volkow (NIDA): Director’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
Theme 1: Spanning the Range from Wellness to Therapeutics
12:15 Introduction to theme
12:20 Stephen Schueller (UC Irvine): Not All Apps are Equal: Understanding Continuums in Digital Mental Health
12:40 Jen Huberty (Calm): Directing Science at a Digital Tech Start-Up
1:00 Yuri Maricich (Pear Therapeutics): Prescription Digital Therapeutics: From Clinical Development to FDA Authorization Through Impact and Scale in the Real-World
1:20 Pamela Scott (FDA): Regulatory Pathways and Considerations for Digital Health Interventions
1:40 Panel Discussion led by David Gastfriend (DynamiCare Health) with Theme 1 Presenters
2:25 10 min Break
Theme 2: Mobile Intervention Design to Improve Health Outcomes
2:35 Introduction to theme
2:40 Amy Bucher (Lirio): Designing for Engagement with Behavioral Science
3:00 Barbara Rothbaum (Emory): Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
3:20 Linda Dimeff (Jaspr Health): Designing for Big Impact: Incorporating User Experience in an Emergency Department App for Delivery of Suicide Crisis care
3:40 Courtney Lyles (UCSF): Digital Health Equity: From Design to Implementation
4:00 Break (5 min)
4:05 Katie Shilton (UMD): Wrestling with Context: Ethical Data Practices for Digital Health Interventions
4:25 Linda Collins (NYU): A Brief Introduction to Empirical Optimization of Digital Interventions
4:45 Panel Discussion led by Billie Inbal-Shani (UMich): with Theme 2 Presenters
5:30 Closeout for the day
Wednesday, July 13
Theme 3: Opportunities for Commercialization, Dissemination, and Reimbursement
1:00 PM Introduction to theme
1:05 John Torous (Harvard): Evaluating Apps: Making Informed Decisions with Available Real-World Data
1:25 Andrea Graham (Northwestern): Designing Digital Interventions to Optimize Implementation with Clinicians and Patients in Routine Practice
1:55 Pearl McGee-Vincent (VA): Integrating Apps for Mental Health and Self-Care Across VA
2:15 McKaye Black (BlueCross BlueShield): Payer Perspectives: Perfecting the Pitch
2:35 Break (5 min)
2:40 Danielle Fau (FDA): CDRH’s Early Payor Feedback Program – Facilitating Interaction Between Payors and Developers to Support Patient Access to Innovative Digital Health Technologies
3:00 Nina Vasan (Stanford University and Real): Direct to Consumer Opportunities and Challenges
3:20 Loleta Robinson (NIH SEED): The Path to Revenue
3:40 Panel Discussion led by Lisa Marsch (Dartmouth) with Theme 3 Presenters
4:25 Closing remarks
4:35 Meeting Adjourns