Loren Larsen is the CEO and Co-founder of Videra Health, a company focused on helping measure and assess mental health using video and artificial intelligence. Larsen is an award-winning technology veteran with extensive engineering and research experience and over 25 issued US patents. Loren has spent the last two decades building teams of scientists and engineers that have built smart video technology used in the delivery of digital assets across many platform ecosystems, including video relay for the deaf and hard of hearing, internet television, and film. His work has been published in both the popular press and scientific journals.  

Loren previously worked as the Chief Technology Officer at HireVue, building its industry leading on-demand video job interviewing platform, which has since facilitated over 33 million interviews. There, he and his team also invented several new machine learning techniques for predicting, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring potential algorithmic bias to assess individual job competencies using verbal and non-verbal behavior.  

Loren is passionate about augmenting healthcare with machine learning to better connect patients to their providers in a scalable way and ensure critical patient data is extracted that would otherwise be missed in a purely human interaction. He is an expert at developing technology that accurately analyzes human language and emotion. Loren is also a co-founder of Nomi Health, a services and technology direct healthcare company. 

Loren earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Utah. He then attended Clemson University, earning a master’s degree in computer science.  

Philip Wang, M.D., Dr.Ph., directs the new Learning Health Systems Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH); the Center helps systems collect and integrate data on patients’ outcomes to continuously improve access, quality, equity, and outcomes from their care. Phil completed his undergraduate degree in biochemistry, medical school, masters and doctoral degrees in epidemiology, as well as psychiatry residency and chief residency, all at Harvard University. He was a faculty member at HMS and BWH until 2006, when he went to serve as Deputy Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and then Deputy Medical Director and Director of Research for the American Psychiatric Association (APA) where he oversaw the recent text revision of DSM. He returned to HMS in 2019 and served as Chair and Chief of Psychiatry, as well as Chief Science Officer at Cambridge Health Alliance. He is currently Co-PI of an NIMH P50 ALACRITY Center grant, as well as an NIMH T32 Fellowship Training grant through the Harvard-T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has also been awarded research grants from CMS, NIDA, AHRQ, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served on several NIH Study Sections, as well as the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, FDA Medical Devices Advisory Committee, and FDA Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee. 

Rachel Wood, PhD, Vice President of Learning Health Systems for Discovery Behavioral Health, is a licensed clinical psychologist in the behavioral health field for more than twenty years. During her time at Discovery, she has provided direct service in various levels of care including outpatient and intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs, direct clinical care for adults and adolescents in PHP RTC and children in acute inpatient.  In her current position, Rachel’s focus is to leverage technology to gather evidence to improve care, access, outcomes, and long-term recovery.  Rachel implemented an app for alumni to provide ongoing education and support via connection with staff members and community members.  

Rachel’s programs increase the frequency and intensity of support following discharge affording real-time intervention for at risk alumni.  In March 2020 Dr. Wood launched Discovery’s mobile support apps allowing alumni and families to remain connected to program staff, receive educational content on mental health and offer and receive peer support following discharge.  The app is an extension of the in-person alumni programs offered by Discovery to provide a supportive community that fosters long-term recovery. Rachel received her Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology and Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco.  She completed the 1998 International Scholars Program at Imperial College London, England. Her dissertation was presented at the International Conference for the Psychology of Science & Technology.  

John Peloquin is a visionary in revolutionizing measurement-based care, setting a new standard for relapse prevention at Discovery so more patients can experience meaningful, sustained recovery. John has served as president and CEO since the company’s inception in 2018, when he facilitated the merger of Cliffside Malibu addiction centers with the Center for Discovery to form Discovery Behavioral Health. Under his leadership, Discovery has become a national leader in leveraging its growing database of quantified patient experiences to deliver tailored treatment that leads to greater patient success. 

With John’s focus on the total journey of care, Discovery developed a first-of-its-kind tracking and assessment platform, Discovery365™, that provides patient support and monitoring beyond treatment to reduce the risk of relapse. 

John’s experience in behavioral healthcare spans decades. He served as CEO of Cliffside Malibu, a network of addiction recovery centers ahead of the merger. He also led Acadia Healthcare’s national outpatient division, which nearly doubled in size under his leadership; chief administrative officer/director of operations at Vital Imaging and division president of CRC Health Group, one of the nation’s largest behavioral healthcare providers. 

John leadership challenges the industry’s unacceptably high relapse standards to provide care that more often leads to the outcome that truly matters: a live well-lived. 

Shalaura is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) leader with more than 15 years’ experience implementing employee relations-based business solutions in multi-state, start-up, legacy healthcare and hospitality organizations. She uses a conducive and collaborative approach to sustaining engagement to provide optimal employee encounters. Her philosophy is to support and mitigate risk for companies while ensuring the voice of the employee is highly regarded. She believes that diversity in a company’s leadership is tantamount to a diverse workforce and customer base. In her current role, she is responsible for the development, implementation and oversight of initiatives that promote a climate that fosters inclusion excellence. Shalaura is a member of ForbesBLK, championing a global community of Black entrepreneurs, professionals, leaders and creators that are driving systematic change in business, culture and society.

Kaydeese is a San Diego native who graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Kaydeese was fascinated with the study of I/O psychology, which focuses on how psychology can be used to create a happier and more productive work environment. She has leveraged her experience working in customer service and sales to help create a warm, welcoming space for patients and staff. Kaydeese has worked for Center for Discovery since 2019 and enjoys working closely with patients and their families. She strives to make sure that every person who steps through the doors feels included, safe and heard.

As a Black woman in leadership, Kaydeese believes that representation and understanding at every level is essential to making BIPOC patients and staff feel welcomed and validated in their experiences. She looks forward to creating a more inclusive space for all.

Rasheed has been employed with Discovery Mood & Anxiety Program (DMAP) since August 2011. Before he became an operations specialist, Rasheed was an on-call tech, full-time tech, school liaison and facility manager. Rasheed’s current role is within the Operations department.

Rasheed has always been committed to advancing diversity, equality and inclusion, directly and/or indirectly. Being a Black man, Rasheed said his biggest fear was being judged, misunderstood or labeled based on the color of his skin. Due to that fear, it drove him to be respectful to everyone he encountered regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion or political views. By joining Discovery’s DEI, Rasheed looks forward to working with individuals within this amazing company that share the same views and uphold the same standards as he does.

Karen has been serving as a member of the Clinical Services and Quality Management (CSQM) department team since 2019, specifically as the director of quality management where she oversees policy and procedure development as well as complaints and grievances for DBH.

Karen’s desire to serve on the DEI Committee was to help widen access to services through thoughtful inclusivity. “My hope is for us to grow to a place that promotes, grows and develops a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our organization for both the patient, employee, leadership and, most importantly, the therapeutic alliance between patient and direct care staff.”

Johnna joined the Cliffside Malibu team in May 2014. She works in the Admissions department as an admissions advisor and the VA liaison. Johnna joined the Admissions department to provide counsel and support to patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependency and to educate families in the best ways to help in the recovery process.  She enjoys her position and cherishes the fact that she can be that soft voice on the other end of the phone guiding patients and their families with hope for a better future.

Johnna states that she is excited to be part of the DEI team and wants to assist in creating an environment that helps every employee be able to show up at work every day without fear of being themselves.