About Jaspr

Jaspr Health’s digital platform speeds and standardizes evidence-based care for people in suicide crisis.

Co-designed with suicide science experts, people with lived experience, and leading healthcare systems, Jaspr Health transforms natural wait times into immediate, empowered self-care and support of ED staff to stabilize suicide crises*.

Compared to care-as-usual, Jaspr Health improves patient access to recommended interventions, decreases agitation and distress, improves coping and patient experience.

* Research and development was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R44MH108222. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

Leadership Team

Drs. Kelly Koerner and Linda Dimeff are internationally-recognized leaders in bringing evidence-based practices to real-world settings through new technologies. For more than two decades, they have designed, built, and deployed innovative solutions to improve care and outcomes for people with behavioral health disorders. View the 30+ National Institutes of Health grants awarded to Drs. Dimeff and Koerner.

Kelly Koerner, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

An expert clinician and trainer in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Kelly has spent her career developing innovative ways to close the gap between scientific research and how clinicians practice. Since co-founding her first behavioral health training company in 1997, she has given life to multiple behavioral technology ventures, including BTECH Research, Practice Ground, and Evidence-Based Practice Institute, LLC. Kelly is also adjunct clinical faculty at the University of Washington and the author of Doing Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Practical Guide.

Linda Dimeff, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

With more than 30 federal grant and over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Linda is recognized as one of the world’s most preeminent DBT and Substance Use Disorder experts. She has partnered with Dr. Koerner on multiple ventures, including BTECH Research and Evidence-Based Practice Institute, LLC. and serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Washington. She is also principal owner of Portland DBT Institute, which employs 30 clinicians in two Oregon locations and Heal, Thrive, Grow Behavioral Health, Inc., a private practice group serving adults and adolescents.

Todd Cullen

Chief Technology Officer

Todd is a serial technology entrepreneur with experience building startup teams (both product and engineering) across 4 continents. He previously founded ThoughtLeadr, a native advertising company, which built one of the fastest ad servers on the planet. Before ThoughtLeadr, Todd built a mobile design and development firm called ReignDesign based in Shanghai, China. ReignDesign developed the very first iOS app for the enterprise in partnership with Frog Design & Standard Charter back in 2008. Over the course of his career, Todd has been a technical problem solver for companies including IBM, Nortel, Deutsche Telekom, Reddit, Salon, and Conde Nast. Todd holds a degree in Biology from Wake Forest University, with a concentration in computation biology.

Chris Hall

Chief Operations Officer

Chris is a sales and marketing professional with experience building internal frameworks to grow early stage companies in the health and financial services industries. He is a Humana Innovation Center alum and a published co-author studying the benefits of technology use to increase mental health patient engagement. Chris was also the co-founder of an award-winning mobile health application that was later acquired. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, a former Air Force Acquisition Officer, and Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran.

Topher Jerome

Director of Lived Experience Integration

Topher brings a lifetime of relevant experience to our team. He spent 12 years developing and managing peer support programs in intensive psychiatric settings in addition to a background in information technology, including EMRs. As a suicide attempt survivor himself, Topher has a personal commitment to the work at Jaspr Health.

Gunjan Siroya

Chief Information Security Officer

Business executive with experience in business, technology, operations, partnerships, marketing and product management strategies to create multiples in economic value in US and global settings. Successfully managed P&L with collaborative relationships, building organizational capability, optimizing processes and serves the business mission with changing needs of the markets. Agile, flexible and responsive to organizational and market conditions and experienced in leading multi-cultural teams. Deep knowledge of technology business leveraging innovation in business models. Entrepreneurial experience in product development and management of web based business applications and digital strategies. Blog and technology writer for healthcare technology markets.

Principal Investigators

Linda Dimeff, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer

JASPR HEALTH

David Jobes, PhD, ABPP
Professor, Suicidology Expert

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

Dr. Jobes’ research and writing in suicide has produced well over 100 peer reviewed publications (including six books on clinical suicidology). As an internationally recognized suicidologist, Dr. Jobes is a past President of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) and was a recipient of that organization’s 1995 “Shneidman Award” in recognition of early career contribution to suicide research. Dr. Jobes also received the 2012 AAS “Dublin Award” in recognition of career contributions in suicidology and the 2015 AAS “Linehan Award” in recognition for his ground breaking clinical research.

Advisors

We are guided by the collaborative input of leading experts in mental health, suicide prevention, technology, and most important, those who have lived experience with suicide.

Marian Betz, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

CU Dept of Emergency Medicine

Edwin Boudreaux, PhD

Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine Research

UMass Memorial Medical Center

James Bourgeois, MD

Chair, Dept of Psychiatry

Baylor Scott & White

Greg Brown, PhD

Director, Penn Center for Prevention of Suicide

University of Pennsylvania

Craig Bryan, PsyD

Executive Director, National Center for Veterans Studies

University of Utah

Pete Carlson, MEd, MBA

President, Behavioral Health Services

AdvocateAurora Health

Katherine Comtois, PhD, MPH

Professor, Dept of Psychology

University of Washington

Diana Cortez-Yanez *

Lived Experience Consultant

Zero Suicide Institute

Paul Goering, MD

VP, Mental Health

Allina Health

Julie Goldstein Grumet, PhD

Director

Zero Suicide Institute

Chadd Kraus, DO, MPH, DrPH, CPH

Research Director, Emergency Medicine

Geisinger Health

James Leaming, MD

Director, Emergency Medicine

Geisinger Health

Cara Lewis, PhD

Associate Investigator

Kaiser Permanente WA Health Research Institute

Ben Lok, PhD

Director, Virtual Experiences Research

University of Florida

Lisa Lovejoy *

Peer Support Coordinator

Harborview Medical Center

Gabrielle Melin, MD, MS

Medical Director, Emergency Psychiatric Medicine

Mayo Clinic

Gregg Miller, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Vituity

Sean Mooney, PhD

Chief Research Information Officer

University of Washington

Paul Nestadt, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Karin Neufeld, MD, MPH

Clinical Director, Dept of Psychiatry

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Matt Nock, PhD

Director, Lab for Clinical & Developmental Research

Harvard University

Sean O’Dell, PhD

Clinical Investigator

Geisinger Health

Joseph Rasimas, MD, PhD, FAPM

Director

Hennepin County Medical Center

Lorilei Snyder *

Suicide Prevention Advocate

Keith Stone, MD, FACEP

Chairman, Dept of Emergency Medicine

Baylor Scott & White

Jeff Sung, MD

Clinical Instructor

University of Washington

Katherine Switz, MBA *

Executive Director

The Stability Network

Jim Vollendroff, MSW, MPH *

Director, Behavioral Health Institute

Harborview Medical Center

Ursula Whiteside, PhD *

Clinical Psychologist & CEO

Now Matters Now

Suzanne Witterholt, MD

Community Liaison Psychiatrist

Direct Care & Treatment (DCT)

* Person with lived experience

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