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Dr Alexis Whitton
Dr Alexis Whitton is an NHMRC Emerging Leader and Co-Director of a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Depression Treatment Precision at the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales (UNSW). She completed her PhD at UNSW, and postdoctoral training at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, before joining the Black Dog Institute in 2020. She co-wrote Australia’s first tailored web and smartphone-based intervention for depression, which has over 200,000 users and has been integrated into primary mental health care in Australia. Dr Whitton currently leads several projects aimed at identifying novel approaches to subtyping depression, including by leveraging advances in artificial intelligence and digital phenotyping methodology, for the purposes of improving treatment precision.
Dr Alexis Whitton is an NHMRC Emerging Leader and Co-Director of a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Depression Treatment Precision at the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales (UNSW). She completed her PhD at UNSW, and postdoctoral training at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, before joining the Black Dog Institute in 2020. She co-wrote Australia’s first tailored web and smartphone-based intervention for depression, which has over 200,000 users and has been integrated into primary mental health care in Australia. Dr Whitton currently leads several projects aimed at identifying novel approaches to subtyping depression, including by leveraging advances in artificial intelligence and digital phenotyping methodology, for the purposes of improving treatment precision.
