Personalizing mental healthcare at scale By Adam Chekroud Abstract: Depression is the worlds leading cause of disability, and almost 1 in 4 people will suffer some kind of mental illness each year. However, most people don’t get a diagnosis, don’t get treatment, or don’t fully recover. Adam Chekroud will talk about how Spring Health uses data to improve mental healthcare at scale, and how statistics help guide clinical decisions throughout the process. Bio: Adam is co-founder of Spring Health, a mental health company based in New York City. Spring works with large employers like GAP and Whole Foods to provide their employees with free and immediate access to high-quality mental healthcare. The company has raised over $8M and has over 1,000 providers in its network. He is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. His research seeks to improve treatment outcomes in mental health, particularly depression, by using large existing datasets to anticipate barriers to treatment and likely illness course. His research has been featured in the Lancet, JAMA Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, and PNAS, and covered in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC, CNN, and NPR. Twitter: @itschekkers Presented at the 2019 New York R Conference (May 10th, 2019)