Advancing mental health through clinical research

Dr. Chen oversees clinical, product, and operations including the development of Lyra Care. She was the co-founder and former chief medical officer at Vida Health and currently serves on the Board of Overseers at UCSF. She has published extensively on open frameworks for mobile health as well as use of comparative effectiveness research design in leading medical journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a medical degree from UCSF and completed her internal medicine training at Stanford.

Dr. Lungu is a licensed clinical psychologist and clinical researcher who leads the Clinical Product and Research team at Lyra. She completed a PhD in computer science at Duke University, a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Washington, and a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. At Lyra she was the lead clinical architect for all Lyra Care programs, responsible for their clinical definition, digital tools development, and scientific evaluation. She has published research in both computer science and clinical psychology with more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as JAMA Psychiatry, and Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Dr. Das is board certified in psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine and has over 20 years of research experience in health care quality and addiction. She studied chemistry and statistics at Stanford, completed a Masters in Public Health at Dartmouth College, and then completed an MD/PhD in community health at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Regionally, she has been a leader in the Northern California Psychiatric Society since 2012 and is a past president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) District Branch. Nationally, she serves on the Council on Addictions at the APA, has presented to the U.S. Congress.

Dr. Lee is a licensed clinical psychologist and clinical researcher with 15 years of experience in mental health research. She completed a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Georgia and a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. She was previously an assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine and has been leading clinical research teams in real-world evidence generation for more than five years. She has published more than 30 articles on mental health in leading journals such as npj Digital Medicine, Lancet Oncology, and Journal of Medical Internet Research.