Dr. Jenna Sung awarded the 2025 IOCDF Jenike Young Investigator Award

Jenna Sung, PhD, was awarded the 2025 International OCD Foundation Jenike Young Investigator Award for her study, “A Web-Based SSI to Reduce Caregiver Distress and Accommodation in Financially Disadvantaged Parents of Youth with OCD: Project EMPOWER.” Read More

Geneva Jonathan has worked on teams that have developed, tested and implemented smartphone interventions for severe mental illness (bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia).

Awards

Dr. Geneva Jonathan named the Summer 2025 MGH Postdoctoral Association Travel Awards winner

Dr. Geneva Jonathan was named the Summer 2025 MGH Postdoctoral Association Travel Awards winner by the MGB Postdoctoral Division & Mass General Postdoc Association (MGPA). Read More

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Highlights

Dr. Sabine Wilhelm, Director, talks about How Smartphone Apps Can Improve Your Mental Health

How Smartphone Apps Can Improve Your Mental Health | Mass General Brigham. To see the video, click: Read More

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Publications

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of a Smartphone App–Led Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression Under Therapist Supervision: Open Trial

Published paper on our center's work, supported by and in collaboration with Koa Health, in developing and testing Mindset for Depression, a smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app. Read More

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Lessons and Untapped Potential of Smartphone-Based Physical Activity Interventions for Mental Health

Paper written by Dr. Emily Bernstein, Emma Wolfe, Dr. Brynn Huguenel, and Dr. Sabine Wilhelm which summarizes early efforts to adapt and test smartphone-based or smartphone-supported physical activity interventions for mental health. Read More

Awards

Sabine Wilhelm, PhD, named the inaugural incumbent of the Donovan-Chien Family Professorship in the Field of Psychology at HMS

Sabine Wilhelm, PhD, Chief of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, was named the inaugural incumbent of the Donovan-Chien Family Professorship in the Field of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The endowed professorship, a tribute to Joe Donovan and Luther Chien, was made possible by The 72 Fund. Read More

In the News

Shirley B. Wang, A.M. named in Forbes 30 under 30 list in the healthcare category

Impact of sleep disruption on BDD symptoms and treatment response

Paper published as the first examination of sleep disturbance in Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), using data from a randomized controlled trial of guided smartphone app-based CBT for BDD. Read More

Funding

Dr. Jonathan awarded the Scholar award from the MGH K12 Career Development Program in Substance Use and Addiction Medicine

Geneva Jonathan, Ph.D. awarded the Scholar award from the MGH K12 Career Development Program in Substance Use and Addiction Medicine for her project “Development and Testing of a Smartphone-based Intervention for Comorbid Substance Use and Depression.” Read More

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Publications

Digital health technologies and major depressive disorder

Updates & News

Dr. Jenna Sung awarded the 2025 IOCDF Jenike Young Investigator Award

Dr. Geneva Jonathan named the Summer 2025 MGH Postdoctoral Association Travel Awards winner

Dr. Sabine Wilhelm, Director, talks about How Smartphone Apps Can Improve Your Mental Health

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of a Smartphone App–Led Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression Under Therapist Supervision: Open Trial

Lessons and Untapped Potential of Smartphone-Based Physical Activity Interventions for Mental Health

Sabine Wilhelm, PhD, named the inaugural incumbent of the Donovan-Chien Family Professorship in the Field of Psychology at HMS

Shirley B. Wang, A.M. named in Forbes 30 under 30 list in the healthcare category

Impact of sleep disruption on BDD symptoms and treatment response

Dr. Jonathan awarded the Scholar award from the MGH K12 Career Development Program in Substance Use and Addiction Medicine

Digital health technologies and major depressive disorder

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