Digital Phenotyping for Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Trauma-Exposed Individuals
Addison House, Guy’s Campus, London
The Dept of Population Health Sciences is pleased to announce the next department seminar.
Details
This is an in-person seminar and will take place at 2pm on 4th September (seminar room, 6th floor, Addison House), coffee and snacks will be served.
Speakers
Our first seminar for this term will be presented by doctoral students Emily Gillings and Aleksandra Korbacz who are both part of the DRIVE Health doctoral school.
Aleksandra Korbacz is a PhD student at the EPSRC DRIVE-Health Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health. She holds a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Sussex. Alongside her studies, she worked in a range of healthcare assistant roles, from end-of-life care to acute hospital wards. Towards the end of her master’s, she joined the Sussex Cancer Centre where she coordinated a counselling service for cancer patients and their relatives. Now, her research focuses on using primary care and cancer records data to predict mental health outcomes in cancer patients
Emily Gillings will present her project ‘Digital Phenotyping for Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Trauma-Exposed Individuals’.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects one in three people exposed to trauma in the UK, yet only 30% achieve full recovery. Emily’s PhD research explores how passive data collection through wearable devices can improve symptom monitoring in trauma-exposed individuals, enabling earlier intervention and more effective treatment. She will present preliminary findings on distinguishing acute daily stress from PTSD using wearable data, along with plans for a pilot study. This work is funded by EPSRC Drive-Health and NIHR Maudsley.
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