Last Tuesday marked a milestone for the School of Medicine at the University of St. Gallen (MED-School) as it hosted its inaugural two-day MED-HSG Research Seminar. The event brought together the research teams of the four Professors of the School — Prof. Dr. Alexander Geissler, [...]
Unraveling Consumer Insights: Analyzing eWOM Textual and Visual Content for mHealth Apps Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 4:15 pm CET About Miriam Alzate Miriam has a PhD in Business from the Public University of Navarra. Her PhD thesis, “Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) and Marketing [...]
Our doctoral researcher Robert Jakob (ETH Zurich) has commenced a six-month visiting research fellowship at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Mentored by Prof. Susan A Murphy at the Statistical Reinforcement Learning Lab, Robert is working on RL algorithms for [...]
From Insurance to Caring Industry – Challenges in Execution and (Digital) Healthcare Trends Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 2:15 pm CET About Erich Kruschitz Erich Kruschitz is the CEO of Mavie Next, a corporate start-up within UNIQA Insurance Group. Mavie Next is building, buying, and [...]
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Mia Jovanova as the new CSS Health Lab scientific director and postdoctoral researcher in digital biomarkers for healthy longevity at our centre. Mia will lead the next generation of the CSS Health Lab, focused on developing new digital biomarkers [...]
Beyond Telehealth: Advances in Digital Mental Health Research and Practical Clinical Considerations for Smartphone Apps in Care Thursday, 09 November 2023, 4:15 pm CET, Zoom About John Torous John Torous is director of the digital psychiatry division, in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical [...]
Maintaining our health and well-being has become paramount in today's fast-paced world. Health interventions of all kinds have taken centre stage, and one of the most effective ways to stay healthy is by embracing the great outdoors. Of course, as the Centre for Digital Health Interventions, [...]
Part of our CDHI team spent a few exciting days in Vienna last week to meet our partner Mavie Next - a start-up company supported by UNIQA Insurance Group. It was a privilege to join forces and visit the Swiss Embassy where we participated in discussions [...]
Rhythms of the Sleeping Brain: Unlocking Their Potential as Early Disease Biomarkers and Treatment Targets Thursday, 26 October 2023, 2:30 pm CET About Caroline Lustenberger Dr. Caroline Lustenberger is a sleep researcher and group leader at ETH Zurich, recognized with the SNSF Ambizione career [...]
Congratulations to Gisbert Teepe on successfully defending his doctoral thesis, Towards Digital Biomarkers for Subclinical and Clinical Depression. Gisbert was co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Elgar Fleisch, Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch & Prof. Dr Nicholas Jacobson. In addition to his main work, the BEDDA study, he took [...]
