ISRII 2022 Keynote Speakers
Tom lnsel, MD, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Afterwards, he launched the Mental Health Team at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), and since 2017, Dr. Insel has co-founded Mindstrong Health, Humanest Care, NeuraWell Therapeutics, and recently Vanna Health which is building recovery tools for people with serious mental illness. His recently published book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health (2022), calls for a reinvention of the U.S. mental health care system around a focus on people, place, and purpose.
Courtney Lyles, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Her work focuses on harnessing health information technology to improve chronic disease management and reduce inequities in health and healthcare outcomes, and she is the co-founder of the UCSF S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech Incubatorfor digital health companies. Dr. Lyles also co-directs the UCSF Population Health Data Initiative and the Innovation in Research and Informatics core for UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), and is presently a Visiting Researcher on Google’s health equity team.
Kristin Ray, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her research program investigates pediatric health care delivery system access, outcomes, and equity, with a focus on use of health information technology to enhance accessible and equitable health care delivery. Dr. Ray is presently leading an NIH-funded study to examine parent decision-making processes regarding use of telemedicine for children with acute respiratory tract infectious symptoms. She is also Director of Health Systems Improvement for UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh's affiliated primary care network, Children’s Community Pediatrics, which includes over 45 primary care and express sites throughout Western Pennsylvania, and maintains a busy in-person and telemedicine clinical practice.