Behavioral Research In Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center
Dedicated to improving behavioral health through technology
Mental illness affects all people regardless of age, race, location, or nationality and is an incredible burden to individuals, families, employers, and society. In the face of this burden, cutting-edge technologies are enabling us to re-invent how we treat mental illness.
Housed at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, the BRiTE Center brings together a diverse group of researchers, clinicians, technologists, patients and mental health advocates with a common goal of improving the lives of those suffering with mental illness, their families, and communities. Harnessing the Pacific Northwest’s innovative spirit, we work with industry, healthcare systems large and small, and individuals invested in developing creative technologies to improve population mental health, in our lifetime.
Programs of Research
BRiTE News
Congratulations to Justin Tauscher and Dror Ben-Zeev on their article published in Psychiatric Times, titled "Integrating digital therapeutics into care of serious mental illness."
August 5, 2021
Ben Buck and Ayesha Chander receive NIMH R34 Award for their study "Development and testing of a caregiver-facing mobile health intervention to reduce duration of untreated psychosis."
July 8, 2021
Dror Ben-Zeev, Suzanne Meller, and colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Ghana publish article in JMIR Mental Health.
July 1, 2021
Rachel Brian, Justin Tauscher, and Suzanne Meller present at the 2021 Washington Behavioral Health Conference on "Putting technology to work: Innovative solutions to help you help others."
June 18, 2021
Justin Tauscher, Eliza Cohn, Dave Atkins, Kevin Hallgren and colleagues have article, "What do clinicians want? Understanding frontline addiction treatment clinicians’ preferences and priorities to improve the design of measurement-based care technology" published in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice.
June 16, 2021
Congratulations to BRiTE faculty member Kevin Hallgren on his promotion to Associate Professor!
June 15, 2021
Ben Buck, Kevin Hallgren, Dror Ben-Zeev and colleagues have article, "mHealth-Assisted Detection of Precursors to Relapse in Schizophrenia" published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.
June 3, 2021
Congratulations to Dror Ben-Zeev, Trevor Cohen, Ben Buck, Tim Althoff, Sarah Kopelovich, and Dave Atkins for being awarded multiple grants from the UW Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions!
May 27, 2021
Oleg Zaslavsky receives a K23 administrative supplement, "Development and Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Health Intervention to Support Healthful Dietary Choices in Older Persons with Dementia" from the National Institute on Aging.
May 21, 2021
Congratulations to Justin Tauscher and colleagues for their recent publication in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.
April 5, 2021
Trevor Cohen presents at the AIMED Surgery, ICU, and Neurosciences meeting on Large Language Models, Linguistic Anomalies, and Alzheimer's Disease Dementia.
March 30, 2021
Trevor Cohen and colleagues have paper accepted to Frontiers in Computer Science titled, Crossing the 'Cookie Theft' Corpus Chasm: Applying what BERT Learns from Outside Data to the ADDReSS Challenge Dementia Detection Task.
March 23, 2021
Trevor Cohen gives talk at Columbia University Biomedical Informatics Seminar titled "Using Neural Language Representations to Detect Linguistic Anomalies in Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Disease."
March 12, 2021
King 5 News publishes article describing BRiTE Center study.
March 9, 2021
Congrats to Dror Ben-Zeev and colleagues for publishing "Cost of mHealth Versus Clinic-Based Care for Serious Mental Illness: Same Effects, Half the Price Tag" in Psychiatric Services.
February 9, 2021
BRiTE Center has the most talked about article in Psychiatric Services for 2020.
February 3, 2021
Congrats to Lola Kola and Dror Ben-Zeev for their recent publication in JMIR Mental Health.
January 26, 2021
BRiTE's Dave Atkins and Tim Althoff 's paper accepted to Web Conference 2021.
January 20, 2021
Kevin Hallgren & Oleg Zaslavsky receive grants from the UW Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.
November 16, 2020
Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD gives opening talk at the "Prospects 2020" Annual Conference, Lithuania.
October 22, 2020
Can Computerized Virtual Patients Effectively Train Health Care Professionals?
A paper published by Greg Reger and Colleagues in JAMA Network Open addresses this question.
October 15, 2020
Ben Buck, Ph.D. gives presentation at the Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Francisco
September 22, 2020
R21 awarded to BRiTE Member Trevor Cohen (UW MPI) and Serguei Pakhomov (UMN MPI) for their project entitled: "Computerized assessment of linguistic indicators of lucidity in Alzheimer's Disease dementia”.
September 11, 2020
Vice News story on digital mental health features BRiTE Center Director Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD
September 17, 2020
Congrats to Oleg Zaslavsky and Colleagues for publishing "Reactions to COVID-19, Information and Technology Use, and Social Connectedness among Older Adults with Pre-Frailty and Frailty"
August 10th, 2020
Ben Buck, PhD, received NIH Loan Repayment Program Award from NIMH
August 7th, 2020
BRiTE Center Investigator Kevin Hallgren, PhD, co-developing NIDA-funded addiction research training program for UW medical students.
August 6th, 2020
The University of Virginia's Center for Behavioral Health and Technology invites Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, to deliver a talk at their Seminar Series.
August 3rd, 2020
Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, attends "Connecting Against Loneliness", a round table discussion hosted by the Aspen Institute and Facebook.
July 23th, 2020
Congrats to BRiTE researchers Dror Ben-Zeev, Ben Buck, Suzanne Meller, and Kevin Hallgren for their recent publication in Psychiatric Services.
July 7th, 2020
BRiTE Center welcomes Justin Tauscher, PhD as new
postdoctoral research team member
June 15, 2020
Dror Ben- Zeev, PhD, joins Behavioral Health Institute Telehealth Rapid Response
(BHI-TRR) - Strategic Oversight Committee
May 5, 2020
BRiTE Staff Member Suzanne Meller, MPH, MSW, LSWAIC, leading project examining COVID-19 response
Apr. 20, 2020
BRiTE Faculty Member Benjamin Buck, PhD, receives
NIMH Career Development Award (K23MH122504)
Apr. 15, 2020
Microsoft awards grant to BRiTE Center Affiliate Tim Althoff, PhD to study natural language processing
Apr. 14, 2020
Our People
David Atkins, PhD
Research Professor
Benjamin Buck, PhD
Assistant Professor
Eliza Brumer Cohn, MSW
Research Coordinator
Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD
Professor, BRiTE Center Director
Ayesha Chander, MRes
Research Coordinator
Jordan Graff, MPH
Research Coordinator
Rachel Brian, MPH
Research Project Director
Trevor Cohen, PhD
Professor
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Kevin Hallgren, PhD
Associate Professor
Suzanne Meller, MPH, MSW, LSWAIC
Center Coordinator/ Research Coordinator
Justin Tauscher, PhD, MS
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Oleg Zaslavsky, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
Our Affiliates
Tim Althoff, PhD
Assistant Professor
Amy Bauer, MD, MS
Associate Professor
Sunny Chieh Cheng, RN, PhD
Assistant Professor
Theresa Hoeft, PhD
Assistant Professor
Aaron Lyon, PhD
Associate Professor
Keshet Ronen, PhD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor
Eric Bruns, PhD
Professor
Sarah Kopelovich, PhD
Assistant Professor
Jeff Munson, PhD
Research Associate Professor
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