Roy Perlis
Director, Center for Quantitative Health, MGH
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Roy Perlis, MD, MSc is founding Editor in Chief of JAMA+ AI, the JAMA Network’s artificial intelligence channel; Director of the Center for Quantitative Health and Ronald I. Dozoretz, MD Endowed Chair at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His lab works at the intersection of machine learning, genomics, and cellular models of brain disease; they identified the first genes associated with major depressive disorder and treatment resistant depression, and pioneered the application of electronic health records for risk stratification in psychiatry. Dr. Perlis has authored more than 400 articles reporting original research in peer-reviewed journals ranging from Nature Genetics and Nature Neuroscience to JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. In 2010 Dr. Perlis was awarded the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance’s Klerman Award; he now serves as a scientific advisor to the DBSA.
