Biography

Michael V. Heinz is a practicing psychiatrist and researcher at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth College. Dr. Heinz has an interest in scalable, digital technologies for assessment and treatment of mental health conditions, as well as identification of novel behavioral and physiologic biomarkers for psychiatric illness. He is completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health Lab at the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, under the mentorship of Dr. Nicholas Jacobson. His present work includes the development of an A.I. driven therapist, as well as studying major depressive disorder using dense longitudnal time series data from wearable devices and mobile phones.

Aside from his work at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Dr. Heinz is a member of the Psychiatry Immunology and Neurology Group at Dartmouth under the direction of Dr. Juliette Madan, and is working with multiple centers on a national incidence study for pediatric mental disorders with immunologic and neurologic etiologies. Clinically, Dr. Heinz sees patients at Hanover Psychiatry, a faculty-founded private practice in Hanover NH. He has a clinical interst in mood and anxiety disorders.