Grand Prize Winner: Shrenik Jain, Sunrise Health

Sunrise Health is a mobile platform that provides anonymous, text-based, small-group therapy for a range of mental health issues. Using artificial intelligence, the app is scalable and allows online "chat rooms" to be created and maintained across the globe.

Mike Dannheim, Sensie

Sensie is a mobile app working as a stress identification and removal tool. It is built on evidence-based solutions for better emotional health and well-being.

Fangwei Lee, Realiteer

REALITEER develops immersive and evidence-based programs in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness trainings to improve human well-being.

Jennifer Kamara, Victoria

Victoria is an addiction platform specifically targeting pregnant women. This program provides accessible, personalized addiction-management tools to help mothers-to-be improve their health and that of their unborn children.

Kelly Wang and Anna Wang, AllyIQ

AllyIQ is a mobile app geared toward patients with bipolar disorder. In addition to tracking symptoms, the app empowers a support network of friends, family, and clinicians to provide coaching and guidance to patients.

Victor Hirth, M.D., and Sean Christensen, M.D., Cognova

Cognova is an app that helps patients with cognitive impairment reminisce about their past using images, movies, or music. The experience becomes progressively more personalized with use and should boost engagement and improve quality of life.

Grand Prize Winner: Jeff Clark with Online CBT Insomnia Program

Jeff Clark is a resident at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He took home the Grand Prize Award for best overall venture at the Psychiatry Innovation Lab for his project called Slumber Camp, an online CBTI program. Stay tuned for his pitch and a candid interview to learn more. And be sure to check out Techforpsych on Youtube for interviews of other finalists and Psychiatry Innovation Lab leaders.

Dr. Irfan with Hope Assist, a Mental Health App for Pakistan

Dr. Muhammad Irfan MBBS, MCPS (Psychiatry), FCPS (Psychiatry), MS (Mental Health Policy & Services), PhD wants to train primary care physicians to deliver high quality mental healthcare in Pakistan. He wants to design an app called Hope Assist that would deliver information from WHO Mental Health Guidelines to drastically improve mental healthcare in Pakistan.

Team Safe Hear – Preventing Domestic Violence

Team Safe Hear wants a solution to domestic violence. They propose using a hands free smart phone application that detects domestic violence through sound, followed by an alert and intervention.

Microsoft Kinect Mental Status Exam – Calvin Yang, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Calvin Yang wants to use the Microsoft Kinect to do mental status examinations during clinical visits. He feels that this will reduce charting time and improve examination metrics. Dr. Yang was awarded $20,000 in Google cloud credits for his initiative which won the Psychiatry Innovation Lab Technology award, sponsored by Google.

Dr. Avi Peled Interview on Computational Psychiatry

Dr. Avi Peled wants to rewrite the textbooks of Mental Healthcare. He has been studying computational neuroscience and computational psychiatry for over a decade and feels that the time for changing the way we diagnose and treat mental illness is near. Basically mental illness arises from dysfunction of the brain, and not symptoms. This is the basis of where we are headed in using brain scans, genetics and other objective tools to be much more effective in helping those with mental health disorders.

John Snook, Queueing Theory and the Treatment Advocacy Center

John Snook is the executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a widely recognized influential mental health advocacy organization. John and his team are using Queueing theory to reduce wait times for mental health patients in jail that need a hospital bed to receive treatment and be restored to competency for trial.

Dr. Eraka Bath with Juvenile Justice App

Dr. Eraka Bath comes to us from UCLA and is making a case for an app designed for Juvenile Justice Youth. Recidivism (reoffenses) are common because youth have a difficult time making all meetings and necessary requirements to come off probation. Dr. Bath wants to design an app that will help them navigate the landscape of the juvenile justice system.

Grand Prize Winner: Dr. Joseph Insler (Overdose Recovery Bracelet)

Watch a discussion with Dr. Joseph Insler, an addiction psychiatrist from Boston who is developing a wearable capable of delivering life-saving medicine to a patient in the event of a drug overdose. Dr. Insler went on to win the grand prize in the Psychiatry Innovation Lab.

Impact Award – Michelle Koh, Priscilla Siow, Akanksha Jain (Alzhelp)

Watch a discussion with Alzhelp (Akanksha, Michelle, and Priscilla) who met through a clinical neuroscience internship program at Stanford.They are designing an app for Alzheimer's patients to assist with navigation resources and caretaker safety. Alzhelp went on to win the Impact prize in the Psychiatry Innovation Lab.

Finalist – Ellen Oh (We Embrace)

Watch a discussion with Ellen Oh, a designer from New York City who is developing an app called 'We Embrace' for foreign speaking pscyhiatry patients to improve communication with their physician. She has lots of interesting insights towards product design, development and entrepreneurship .

Finalist – Kammarauche Isuzu and Mackenzie Drazan (MiHelper)

Dr. Kammarauche Asuzu and Mackenzie Drazan from Duke want to use Machine Learning to reduce emergency room visits of mental health patients.

PTSD Nightmare Prevention Wearable with Tyler Skluzacek and Cody Rall

Tyler Skluzacek made a big splash in 2015 when the news media caught wind of his PTSD wearable in development to prevent traumatic nightmares. Tyler and Cody Rall share the story of where they met at a hackathon in DC to brainstorm for the PTSD wearable and where Tyler took it from there.

Grand Prize Winner & Audience Choice Award: Jim Schwoebel (Neurolex Diagnostics)

Watch a discussion with Jim Schwoebel who is developing technology that can assist health care workers to make various diagnoses. Jim won the 2016 psychiatry innovation lab for his ideas and plans to put the cash prize back into the company to further advance his cause.