Our Lab at the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) 2026 Conference

Our team had such a wonderful time at American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry's annual conference. Our lab's faculty - Drs. Oded Bein and Julia Chafkin and our T32 fellow - Dr. Mike Gallagher presented new exciting work.

Julia Chafkin (standing room only, hence the tiny visual) presented findings showing 97% attendance in our Engage & Connect psychotherapy, with 84% success in engagement in new social activities by older adults with depression. There results suggest a promising and cost-effective approach to increase social connectedness. 

Oded Bein presented on application of computational approaches to identify mechanisms of psychotherapy and develop precision psychotherapy algorithms, using multimodal data. AND - a talk on promising brain target engagement results from our Engage & Connect psychotherapy study (not pictured).

Michael Gallagher presented work from our large-scale psychotherapy community implementation (collab with Jo Anne Sirey), showing that ~half of older adults in the community achieved clinical response within 2 sessions of therapy (preprint + updates coming soon). 

We're excited to continue being part of a community of clinicians and researchers who are passionate about improving the mental health of older adults.