New Grant – Improving Understanding of Genetic and Clinical Risk of Suicidality with Natural Language Processing and Probabilistic Phenotyping

We are delighted to announce a new R01 from the NIMH to the lab of my co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Douglas Ruderfer, and my lab to fund research into better understanding clinical and genetic factors of risk of suicidal ideation (suicidal thoughts) and suicide attempts. We partner with Dr. Adi Bejan at Vanderbilt, an expert in…

New Video – NIH/NCATS Machine Intelligence Workshop, 7/12/2019

The Video of the NIH/NCATS Machine Intelligence Workshop is now online. It was a fantastic day with rich discussion. Panels from experts like Ken Mandl, Nigam Shah, Dina Katabi, and more. Dr. Walsh participated in the second panel on Explainability. His talk focused on "The Importance of Algorithmic Explainability in Behavioral Health". https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=33220&bhcp=1

NIH/NCATS Machine Intelligence Workshop, July 12, 2019

The National Institutes of Health/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences hosted a terrific Machine Intelligence Workshop on July 12, 2019. Dr. Walsh participated in the second panel on "Explainability" of Machine Intelligence. He presented "The Importance of Algorithmic Explainability in Behavioral Health". It's been a busy summer and wonderful to see the commitment from NIH…