Dr Ming Yang will share his perspectives on the future of digital mental health research and what editors look for when publishing in one of the world’s leading medical journals.
Ming joined Nature Medicine in 2022, handling research and setting editorial priorities across a broad range of topics in non-communicable diseases, including mental health and public health. Nature Medicine is a monthly peer reviewed journal devoted to publishing the latest advances in translational and clinical research. Prior to this Ming was an editor at BMC Medicine.
Ming studied Physiology at King’s College London, before completing a master’s degree at the University of Bristol and PhD and Postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge. During his PhD, he did a secondment at Science magazine and Science Translational Medicine.
The talk will be chaired by Dr Tom Ward, a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology working at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Tom is co-founder and lead of the AVATAR therapy team, a digital relational intervention for distressing voices, and co-founder of SloMo therapy, a digital blended therapy for paranoia. He is also an EDI Theme Representative at the NIHR BRC: Maudsley.
The talk will be followed with an audience Q&A.
The event is hosted by NIHR BRC: Maudsley’s Digital Therapies theme.
