WTL3 - Social Media and Mental Health: Emerging Issues

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Location: Concourse 152, Level 1, LACC

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Relias, LLC and National Council for Mental Wellbeing guarantee this educational conference is free from bias.

Thought Leader(s)

Nina Vasan, MD, MBA

Founder and Executive Director
Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation
Palo Alto, California

Moderator(s)

Ayla C. Colella, LMHC

Senior Director
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Washington, District of Columbia

Dr. Vasan, a psychiatrist, entrepreneur and pioneer in digital mental health innovation, will explore the intersection of mental health and social media and share emerging trends and their impact on communities. As founder and executive director of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation, the first academic laboratory dedicated to transforming mental health at scale through tech-enabled products, and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford, she brings a unique perspective on this emerging topic.

Learning Objectives:

Examine a framework to engage with social media in a healthy way.
Explore concrete set of tools you can use and that you can share with the patients/people in your life.
Identify bigger issues related to unsafe videos that go viral and what to do when that happens.
Analyze intersection of social media and hard news moments and what to do