Accurate Suicide Risk Detection with eC-SSRS Helps Ensure Safety of Trial Participants and Treatments in Oncology and Beyond

Libby Thomas, MS, Scientific Advisor, eCOA Science & Consulting, Clario

Libby Thomas is a Scientific Advisor at Clario, utilizing her curiosity and knowledge of human behavior to provide scientific consultation on electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOA) in the clinical trial space. Her focus includes diary design best practice, patient advocacy and human-centered design.

Libby began her education studying the implementation of brain-computer interfaces in patients with locked-in syndrome in the lab of the late Dr. Emanuel Donchin. She continued her studies and research working daily with participants with schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder and bipolar disorder for four and a half years corresponding with her graduate studies at the University of Georgia.

During this time, she set up and analyzed data from electroencephalograms and magnetoencephalograms, allowing her to gain hands-on knowledge and a deeper understanding of where the activities of the human brain overlap with physics (e.g. electrical and magnetic activity). She has authored and co-authored numerous academic works and publications. And, because she likes to know how everything works, she occasionally dabbles in solution and software design.

Dr. Kelly Posner, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University

Dr. Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, and her work is saving lives all over the globe. The former President of the American Psychiatric Association noted her work with the Columbia Protocol could be “like the introduction of antibiotics.” The US Department of Defense said her work is “nothing short of a miracle” and that “her effective model of improving the world will help propel us closer to a world without suicide.” The CDC noted that her work is “changing the paradigm in suicide risk assessment in the US and worldwide.”

Dr. Posner’s work has been noted in a keynote speech at the White House and in Congressional hearings, and she gave the lead presentation in a US Senate forum on school safety in her partnership with the Parkland community. Jim Shelton, former Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Education, says her work “has the potential to keep the 64 million children in our schools safe physically and mentally by helping prevent school violence.” Israeli officials said her work “is not only saving millions of lives but in Israel it is literally changing the way we live our lives.” Through her advocacy she has helped change local, national and international policy, which in turn has contributed to reductions in suicide across all sectors of society.

Dr. John Greist, MD, Chairman of the Board, Meret Solutions; Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Univ. Of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. John Greist is the MERET Solutions’ Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder, Research Professor (Volunteer) for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences School of Medicine-Wichita at the University of Kansas.

Dr. Greist is also Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

One of the pioneers in the field of computerized medicine, Dr. Greist is co-author of more than 300 professional journal articles, book chapters and books. In addition to Co-Founding MERET Solutions, Dr. Greist co-founded Epic Systems Corporation, PRN Systems and Healthcare Technology Systems.