Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD
Personal Statement
I am a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in development and evaluation of technology-based approaches in the study, assessment, treatment, and prevention of mental illness. This work includes development of illness self-management apps for people with serious mental illness, texting interventions, behavioral sensing/digital phenotyping, computational psychiatry/predictive modelling, applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP), and development of culturally-relevant digital mental health resources for communities in low-and-middle-income countries. My research has been supported by grants and awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Myrtlewood Foundation, and John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. I publish extensively in scientific journals and is a regular speaker at national and international scientific meetings including invited presentations at the White House and National Institute of Mental Health Director’s Innovation Speaker series. I have written editorials and commentaries on the use of technology-based interventions for Psychiatric Services, the BMJ, and the New York Times, and my research has been covered by Public Radio, Nature, Wired Magazine, Slate, and The Economist. I served on the Editorial Board of Schizophrenia Bulletin and am the Inaugural Editor of the “Technology in Mental Health” Column for Psychiatric Services (APA journal).Education
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UCSD School of Medicine, 2009
Clinical Internship, UCSD School of Medicine/VA San Diego, 2008
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2008
MS, Clinical Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2005
BA, Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, 2002
Department Affiliations
Scholarly Expertise
Clinical Expertise
- Developing an artificial intelligence digital navigator system to support patients’ use of technology-based interventions
- Optimizing telemental health with live artificial intelligence clinical scaffolding and feedback
- Acceptability and feasibility of a single-session + digital mental health intervention for people with psychosis on an acute psychiatric inpatient unit
- Developing a digital training resource for clinicians learning CBT for psychosis (CBTpro)
- Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve digital mental health interventions
- NORTH: Developing a mobile health intervention to support treatment seeking in early psychosis
- Deploying a texting intervention for psychosis; from research to real-world practice
- Bolster: Development and testing of a caregiver-facing mobile health intervention to reduce duration of untreated psychosis
- Attitudes, readiness, and adoption of digital health in community mental health centers during COVID-19 pandemic
- mHealth Washington
- mHealth in West Africa: developing an evidence-based psychosocial intervention toolkit
- Mobile RDoC: Using smartphone technology to understand Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVH)
- Developing a digital training resource for clinicians learning CBT for psychosis (CBTpro)
- Pilot study of mHealth for Veterans with serious mental illness
- Developing digital health resources for young adults with early psychosis and their families
- Assessing the Determinants and Antecedents of Persecutory Thoughts (ADAPT)
