Speakers at the 2024 Behavioral Health Tech Conference

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Our Call For Speakers application for BHT2025 is now open! While we build our 2025 lineup, take a look at our speakers from the 2024 conference below.

AJ Patel

Chief Executive Officer, TeleMed2U

Adina Safer

Senior Consultant, Hopelab and The Medicaid Sessions

Aimee George Leary

Chief People Officer, Booz Allen

Alejandra Gomez

National Youth Advocate, Point Source Youth

Alex Katz

Founder and CEO, Two Chairs

Alexa Mikhail

Senior Health and Wellness Reporter, Fortune Magazine

Alison Darcy, PhD

Founder & President, Woebot Health

Alissa Haight, LCSW, LISW, LSCSW

Divisional Lead Behavioral Health Specialist, Oak Street Health

Alyssa Dietz, PhD

Head of US Clinical Strategy, ieso

Amy Ayrault, LCSW

President, Evernorth Behavioral Care Group, Evernorth Health Services

Amy Green, PhD

Head of Research, Hopelab

Amy Hawthorne

Director of Mental Health and Wellness, Canyon Ranch

Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Senior Writer, Fierce Healthcare

Andre Simms

Founder, DayOneNotDayTwo

Andrea R. Anderson, MHA, MBA

VP Population Health and Quality, Millennium Physician Group

Andrew Barr

Founder, GreyMatter Capital

Andrew Carlo, MD, MPH

Chief Scientific Officer, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Andrew DiGiacomo

National Provider Network Strategy, Evernorth Health Services

Andrew Post

President, Hazel Health

Andrew Rubin

Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs and Ambulatory Care, NYU Langone Health

Andrey Ostrovsky, MD

Managing Partner, Social Innovation Ventures

Andy Cruz, MD

CMO, Guidelight Health

Andy Keller, PhD

President, Chief Executive Officer, and Linda Perryman Evans Presidential Chair, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Andy Kelly

SVP of Provider Enablement, Optum Behavioral Health Solutions

Angela Skrzynski, DO

Lead Physician, Telehealth, Virtua Health

Angela Yong

Co-Founder & CEO and Student Researcher, soulsync, Youth, Media, & Wellbeing Lab, Psychophysiology Lab

Anjlee Joshi

Lead, Impact Investor, The National Council

Ann O'Grady, LCSW

Behavioral Health Director, Independence Blue Cross

Anna Bobb

Executive Director, Path Foward

April Richardson, MD

VP Clinical Services BCBS SC and COO Companion Benefit Alternatives, BCBS SC and Companion Benefit Alternatives

Arielle Radin Pulverman, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, Bruin Health

Arpan Parikh, MD, MBA, FAPA

Chief Medical Officer, SOL Mental Health

Ashlei Rodgers

Health Equity Strategist, Sparkles & Rodgers, LLC

Ashley Hunter

CEO and Founder, Fit Kids Foundation

Ashley Potts

Vice President of Member Operations, Wayspring

Ashly Taylor

Director of Behavioral Health, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma

Audrey Wang

Affective Cookies Founder and Student at UC Berkeley

Ayo Gathing, M.D.

Regional Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Humana Healthy Horizons

Becky Pickle

Chief Executive Officer, Huntsman Mental Health Foundation

Bennett Porter

Chief of Staff, Calm

Bernard DiCasimirro, D.O.

Chief Medical Officer, Lucet

Boaz Gaon

Founder & Chief Product Officer, WISDO

Brad Dunn

Editor, Emerald

Brad Kittredge

CEO & Co-Founder, Brightside Health

Brandon Kitay, MD

Assistant Professor / Dir. Behavioral Health Integration, Emory School of Medicine / Emory Healthcare

Brent Harris

Chief Information Officer, Family & Children's Services

Brett Hart, PhD

Vice President, Behavioral Health & Mental Health Parity, Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota

Briana Duffy

Market President, Carelon Behavioral Health

Britteny Matero

Partner and Senior Vice President, Insenna

Brooke Parish, M.D.

Executive Medical Director, HCSC

Bryan Buckley, DrPH, MPH, MBA

Head of Public Health, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

Bukata Hayes

Vice President, Racial and Health Equity and Chief Equity Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota

Cara McNulty, DPA

Chief Executive Officer, Vibrant Emotional Health

Carmine Di Maro

Director, One Mind Accelerator, One Mind

Caroline Carney, M.D.

President and CMO, Magellan Health

Caroline Fenkel, DSW, LCSW

Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer, Charlie Health

Carrie Bergen

Sr. Strategist, Lyra Health

Carrie Khan

West Region Leader, Health, Equity & Wellbeing, WTW

Cassie Dawalt

Director of Business Development, Valera Health

Catherine Alves

Student, Oakwood University

Chanda Aloysius Yates

Senior Advisory on Indian Health Service, Kauffman and Associates

Chelsea Glenn

Chief Growth Officer, Northwell Direct

Chris Hemphill

Sr. Director, Commercial Intelligence, Woebot Health

Chris Mosunic, PhD, RD, CDCES, MBA

Chief Clinical Officer, Calm

Chris Rogers

Senior Managing Director, Ziegler

Chris Sullens

Chief Executive Officer, CentralReach

Christal Wang

Co-founder & CEO, Shimmer

Christina Gerdes, MD

Chief Medical Officer & Co-Founder, Willow Behavioral Health

Christine Crawford, MD, MPH

Associate Medical Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness

Christine Schulze, LCSW

Senior Behavioral Health Consultant, Mercer

Christophe Rimann

Co-Founder & CEO, Juniper Behavioral Health

Christopher McKelvy

Managing Partner, K. Ventures

Christopher Thompson

Chief Executive Officer, Sober Sidekick

Cindy Liu

Professor and Director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Claire Marblestone

Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Clare Kennedy Purvis, PsyD

Founder, WELL

Claudia Naím-Burt

Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder, Keep Company, Inc.

Clay Nicholas

Chief Commercial Officer, CredibleMind

Colin LeClair

Chief Executive Officer, Connections Health Solutions

Cooper Zelnick

Chief Revenue Officer, Groups Recover Together

Corbin Petro

Independent Board Member/Advisor, Petro Partners, LLC

Crystal O'Briant

Director of Solution and Design, Optum Behavioral Health Solutions

Cynthia Anderson, PsyD

Chief Clinical Officer, Avela Health

Cynthia Grant, PhD

Head of Clinical Excellence, Grow Therapy

Daisy Wolf

Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Dama Dipayana

CEO + Co-Founder, Manatee

Dan Frogel, MD

Chief Executive Officer, Thriveworks

Dana Lerman, MD

Co-Founder and Medical Director, Skylight Psychedelics

Danna Lipton

Clinician

Darren Webb

CEO, Mindset Care

Darshak Sanghavi, MD

Program Manager, ARPA-H

David Ball

Sr. Director - Headstream, SecondMuse

David Cooper

Executive Director, Therapists in Tech

David Sitt, PsyD

Clinical Director, Agave Health

Dawne Carlson

VP of Human Resources, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Deb Adler

CEO, Navigator Healthcare

Deborah Fernandez-Turner, DO, DFAACAP, CHIE

AVP Deputy Chief Psychiatric Officer, Aetna

Debra Katz, MD

Senior National Medical Director, Optum

Debra Nussbaum, PhD, LCSW

Sr Director Behavioral Health, Optum/UHC

Demond Hill, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago

CE
Credits

in-person & online

Earn up to 13 continuing education (CE) hours

In partnership with PESI, our event offered CE credits for mental health professionals who attend. For those unable to make the trip to Arizona, the CE credits were attainable virtually via PESI's streaming platform during the live event.