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SDMH membership is open to anyone in digital mental health: whether you're in research, academia, industry, healthcare, community organizations, government, policy, or are someone with lived experience, we invite you to join us today!

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Members at the 2026 annual meeting meetup in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Membership benefits

Become a member today and connect with other experts, trainees, and mentors in this growing field.

  • The Digital Mental Health Minute

    Members receive our monthly newsletter with exciting updates on global research, policy, events, job and funding opportunities, and more.

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  • Special Interest Groups

    Access to one of our SDMH Member-driven working groups focused on AI, Health equity, Industry, and Students & Trainees.

    Meet the SIGs

  • Volunteer Leadership & Mentoring

    Volunteer members drive Annual Meeting planning, engage and grow membership, and run marketing and communications campaigns.

    See the committees

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One form covers membership, the newsletter, Special Interest Groups, and committee volunteering opportunities.

What happens next

  1. You're on the list. The next edition of The SDMH Digital Mental Health Minute lands in your inbox.
  2. Your SIGs get your name. If you select a Special Interest Group (SIG), its co-chairs contact you.
  3. Committees follow up. If you offer to volunteer, the Chair of that Committee gets in touch.

Membership benefits - in their own words

Becoming a member has been invaluable for leveraging all of these connections, especially those in industry… and for mentorship on research and career development.”

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Special Interest Groups

SIGs are formed by members around a shared theme: a population, a setting, a problem, an intervention strategy, or a career stage. Click on each of the SIG tabs below to learn more.

Trina Histon, the Society's Secretary, is the SIG liaison to the board. Questions about joining or starting a SIG go to info@societydmh.org.

Artificial Intelligence SIG

AI increasingly shapes how people access mental health support, from general-purpose chatbots to AI inside digital mental health tools. This SIG brings the field's experience to the development, evaluation and safety monitoring of these tools.

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Chris Hemphill

Co-chair

Founder and Head of Data Science & AI, Modular Feedback; Health AI Fellow, NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy Research

LinkedIn

Sachin Pendse, PhD

Co-chair

Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT), Department of Medicine, UCSF

LinkedIn

Health Equity SIG

Centers the populations who most experience health disparities but have been least served by, or included in, the design and testing of digital behavioral health interventions, and advocates for their needs with payers and policymakers.

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Qinxin Shi, PhD

Co-chair

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University

LinkedIn

Aubrey Rhodes, PhD

Co-chair

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Informatics, King's College London; Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford

LinkedIn

Yexinyu "Yolanda" Yang, MA

Student co-chair

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

LinkedIn

Rawan Iriqat, MPH

Student co-chair

Graduate Researcher, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, UC San Diego

LinkedIn

Industry SIG

Elevates the central issues for companies in the field: real-world evidence standards, partnerships between companies, academics and users, access for underserved populations, and training for industry careers.

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Trina Histon, PhD

Co-chair

Director, Percolating Health

LinkedIn

Caitlin Stamatis, PhD

Co-chair

Head of Research, Slingshot AI

LinkedIn

Student & Trainee SIG

Students and trainees are a large share of SDMH's membership. This SIG connects them across institutions and disciplines, and demystifies the hidden curriculum of building a career in digital mental health.

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Aayushi Sangani, BA

Co-chair

Project Coordinator, University of Virginia, Program for Anxiety, Cognition, and Treatment (PACT) Lab

LinkedIn

Kristen Van Swearingen, MA

Co-chair

Health Psychology PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

LinkedIn

Committees

SDMH committees run our core work. To join one today as a volunteer, select a committee on our join form.

Conference Planning Committee

Plans the annual meeting: the program, speakers, abstracts, posters and flash talks.

Volunteer

Caitlin Stamatis, PhD

Co-chair

Head of Research, Slingshot AI

LinkedIn

Soo Jeong Youn, PhD

Co-chair

Senior Implementation Scientist, Reliant Medical Group, OptumCare; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

LinkedIn

César Escobar-Viera, MD, PhD, MPH

Advisory Chair

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh; Director, PRIDE iQ

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Membership Committee

Grows the membership and shapes what members get from the Society.

Volunteer

Soo Jeong Youn, PhD

Chair

Senior Implementation Scientist, Reliant Medical Group, OptumCare; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

LinkedIn

Adrian Aguilera, PhD

Member

Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

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Daniel Blonigen, PhD

Member

Research Career Scientist, Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine

LinkedIn

Dani Bradley, MS, MPH

Member

Vice President of Clinical Affairs, Big Health

LinkedIn

Philip Chow, PhD

Member

Associate Professor, Center for Behavioral Health and Technology, University of Virginia School of Medicine

LinkedIn

Lori Cook, MPP

Member

VP for Strategic Partnerships for Innovation, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

LinkedIn

Daniel Coronel, MS

Member

Maulik Kamdar, PhD

Member

Director of Clinical Informatics, Optum Health

LinkedIn

Rob Montgomery, MA, MBA

Member

Strategic Solutions Manager, Lindus Health

LinkedIn

Taylor Myers-Brower, MA

Member

Graduate Student, University of Virginia

LinkedIn

Kunmi Sobowale, MD

Member

Assistant Professor and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

LinkedIn

Communications Committee

Runs the newsletter and social channels, and reviews requests to share news with members.

Volunteer

Jeane Garcia Davis, RN, MSN/MPH

Communications and Operations Advisor

Society for Digital Mental Health

LinkedIn

Afshan Yaligar, MA

Volunteer

Psychologist and Freelance Social Media Professional

Alexia Jeayes

Volunteer

Elena Torno

Volunteer

Emma Jensen, BA

Volunteer

MS Student in Human-Computer Interaction, Georgia Institute of Technology

Michelle Liu

Volunteer

Novia Wong, MS

Volunteer

PhD Candidate in Informatics, University of California, Irvine

Local meet-ups

Coming soon.

Interested in hosting one in your city?
E-mail info@societydmh.org.

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Members at the SDMH 2026 meetup in Tucson, Arizona.

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