Experience

Blackbird Health

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • 2015 - Present

• Chief Medical Officer

  • Jul 2021 - Jun 2023

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Apr 2015 - Jul 2021



OmnySense

• Israel
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Board of Advisors

  • 2019 - Present



Doctor On Demand

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Advisory Board Member

  • Nov 2014 - 2017

• Director of Emotional Health

  • Nov 2013 - Nov 2014

  First Psychiatrist, and founding director of mental/behavioral health at DoctorOnDemand. Responsible for creating the initial protocols used within the DoctorOnDemand platform including the rapid triage, assessment, and treatment for a range of psychiatric conditions via telemedicine.



Emodt

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• Founder and CEO

  • 2012 - Mar 2015

  Founded SAAS emotional analytics firm. Led early-stage team quantifying emotion. Oversaw early team formation, product/market iteration of MVP towards platform leveraging NLP/ML to provide visibility into the emotional culture within high-growth companies. Founded SAAS emotional analytics firm. Led early-stage team quantifying emotion. Oversaw early team formation, product/market iteration of MVP towards platform leveraging NLP/ML to provide visibility into the emotional culture within high-growth companies.



Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief City Architect

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  Site lead for Pittsburgh leg of 4-city Energizing Health symposium. Brought in thought leaders, payors, founders for targeted discussion on digital health. Experts brought in from Validic, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, GingerIO, Jawbone, Otsuka, Mylan, UPMC, CMU, IDEO and others. Site lead for Pittsburgh leg of 4-city Energizing Health symposium. Brought in thought leaders, payors, founders for targeted discussion on digital health. Experts brought in from Validic, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, GingerIO, Jawbone, Otsuka, Mylan, UPMC, CMU, IDEO and others.



University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  • Jul 2012 - Jun 2013



Moodtraining.com

• Founder

  • 2012 - Mar 2013

  Teaching people to thrive through fostering emotional awareness and control. Teaching people to thrive through fostering emotional awareness and control.



The National Institutes of Health

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• NIH Postdoctoral Fellow- U Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Affective Neuroscience Program

  • Jul 2010 - Jun 2012

  Under mentor Mary L. Phillips MD, MD(Cantab), Investigated social cognition and mood in pediatric/adolescent mood disorders including Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Authored research studies published in Psychological Medicine, Journal of Abnormal Psychiatry, Bipolar Disorders. Under mentor Mary L. Phillips MD, MD(Cantab), Investigated social cognition and mood in pediatric/adolescent mood disorders including Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Authored research studies published in Psychological Medicine, Journal of Abnormal Psychiatry, Bipolar Disorders.



UPMC

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow

  • Jul 2008 - Jun 2010

  Biological Psychiatry; Neurology; Psychiatry; Child &Adolescent Psychiatry; Family Systems; Clinical Neuroscience; Functional Neuroimaging; Psychiatric Emergency Services

• Chief Resident and Chair of the Research Track

  • 2009 - 2010

• Resident Psychiatrist

  • Jul 2001 - Jul 2008



University of Pittsburgh

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate- David A. Lewis Director- Conte Center

  • 2003 - 2005

  Research into the biological basis of severe psychiatric illness. Examining brain circuitry through cellular imaging. Stereological investigation of a key thalamic node in cortical-thalamic cerebellar circuitry in schizophrenia. Results presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry. Research into the biological basis of severe psychiatric illness. Examining brain circuitry through cellular imaging. Stereological investigation of a key thalamic node in cortical-thalamic cerebellar circuitry in schizophrenia. Results presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry.



Jefferson Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • 2000 - 2001

  Center for Integrative Medicine - Research Assistant - Dr George Brainard, Dr. Steven Rosenzweig. Jeffery Greeson. Integrative Medicine research into mind-body medicine including the use of MBSR Meditation and Yoga for Stress Reduction in Medical Students. Published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Center for Integrative Medicine - Research Assistant - Dr George Brainard, Dr. Steven Rosenzweig. Jeffery Greeson. Integrative Medicine research into mind-body medicine including the use of MBSR Meditation and Yoga for Stress Reduction in Medical Students. Published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine



University of New Hampshire

• Geographic Information Systems Analyst

  • 1994 - 1995

  NASA Landsat Pathfinder project - Processing satellite imagery of the Amazon basin to map and quantify deforestation. Leveraging high spatial resolution, multidate, georeferenced satellite image data to document and evaluate the extent and types of changes in human activities at local scales to create data investigating global change. NASA Landsat Pathfinder project - Processing satellite imagery of the Amazon basin to map and quantify deforestation. Leveraging high spatial resolution, multidate, georeferenced satellite image data to document and evaluate the extent and types of changes in human activities at local scales to create data investigating global change.