Event Details:
Join us on May 20th 12-1pm PST to hear from Dr. Venkat Bhat about Generative AI in Psychiatry: From Chatbots to Clinical Orchestration.
Generative AI is rapidly evolving from simple chatbot interfaces to multi-agent systems capable of supporting triage, workflow augmentation, and clinical decision-making in psychiatry. This presentation provides an overview of current and emerging perspectives on generative AI applications across clinical care, education, research synthesis, and quality improvement, highlighting both empirical findings and real-world implementation challenges. The session concludes with a staged, human-in-the-loop roadmap outlining assistive, collaborative, and semi-autonomous models of care for the responsible integration of generative and agentic AI into psychiatric practice, with a focus on safety, governance, and clinical accountability.
About the speaker: Venkat Bhat, MD MSc FRCPC DABPN is a psychiatrist, clinician-scientist, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He leads the AI for Mental Health (AI-M) Program and serves as the national Mental Health Community of Practice Lead at the Temerty Centre for AI in Medicine (T-CAIREM) at the University of Toronto, advancing AI for mental health and at the interface of mental health and medical illness. He directs federally funded, interdisciplinary initiatives that bring stakeholders across Canada together in areas including wellness and resilience, depression, and PTSD, emphasizing the bidirectional relationship between AI and neuroscience and the safe, equitable, and scalable integration of AI into clinical care, education, and research.To date, he has authored >180 peer-reviewed publications and delivered >200 invited and conference presentations, and served as investigator or co-investigator on >30 grants/clinical trials across all major funding bodies totaling over $12M CDN as PI, $4M as Co-PI, and $22M as Co-I. He has trained >50 students and fellows across engineering and medicine and is a member of the ACP, CCNP, and ACNP.
Moderator: Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and a Psychologist at the National Center for PTSD's Dissemination and Training Division. She is the co-Director of Stanford's CREATE Center. Areas of research emphasis include implementation science (particularly training, fidelity, adaptation and sustainment), evidence-based treatment for PTSD, depression, suicide prevention, and use of technology to support access to evidence-based mental health interventions. As a co-lead of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science's Mental Health Innovation and Technology Hub, she worked with a team at Stanford to develop Pause a Moment, a digital wellbeing program for healthcare workers who experience COVID-19 stressors (pam.stanford.edu). Most recently, she has been working on the use of Large Language Models to support evidence-based mental health interventions. She serves on the leadership committee of Stanford's AI for Mental Health Initiative.
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CME credits: You may be eligible to receive CME credits for attending this event. More information will be provided at the start of the event. If you have questions, please reach out to CREATE (create-alacrity-center@stanford.edu).
Recording: This event will be recorded and a recording will be shared with our CREATE community.