The MindTech symposium 2019 will take place on Thursday 5 Dec at the Royal College of Physicians; bringing together leaders in clinical practice, patient experience, academic research, industry and technology development to address the key challenges in building a stronger evidence-base to support implementation of new technologies in mental healthcare. 

Digital technology has the potential to transform mental healthcare by offering novel interventions and more accessible, efficient and flexible services. However, if digital mental healthcare is to succeed in improving lives it requires both a stronger evidence-base and clear pathways for delivery, adoption and sustainability in real-world services.

Keynote topics include:

Overcoming the frontiers of e-mental-health: personalize, blend & implement
Professor Heleen Riper, Professor eMental-Health/Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Managing and mitigating complexity in digital health technology implementation
Professor Trish Greenhalgh OBE, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences & Dr Victoria Betton, Director, mHabitat

Harnessing digital solutions to tackle mental health problems in university students – The WHO World Mental Health College Student Initiative
Professor David Ebert, President of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII)

MindTech Debate:

“This house believes that the NICE recommendation for digital CBT for children and young people with depression is not deliverable”

Panellists include: Professor Steve Pilling, Professor of Clinical Psychology & Clinical Effectiveness, University College London Dr Aislinn Bergin, Research Fellow, NIHR MindTech MIC Dr Mathijs Lucassen, Senior Lecturer, Open University & Honorary Academic, The University of Auckland Lucy-Paige Willingham – a young person’s perspective. 

Join the conversation:

To follow the debate, and keep up-to-date with news from the symposium, follow the Twitter hashtag: #MindTech2019 we will be live tweeting from the event and we will be joined by the Mental Elf, who will be opening up discussion #BeyondTheRoom. 

Download MindTech Symposium 2019 programme

Read the latest Mental Elf blog about the symposium