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.

Kris Kelsay

Board Chair

Kris Kelsay is a startup veteran and commercialization leader with proven success delivering in complex and evolving business environments. She heads Thought Leadership and Commercial Go-to-Market for Providence, a $29B integrated health system, where she is responsible for the Ideation-to-Solution Lab and commercial GTM for the organization’s internal technology incubator, as well as thought leadership efforts for the Providence 4SITE organization. She has 25+ years of experience bringing new solutions and companies to market, working with dozens of enterprise, government entities and non-profits across a broad set of industries.

Linda Dimeff, PhD

Founder, Chief Executive Officer

With more than 30 federal grants 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.

Topher Jerome

Lived Experience Advisory Board Chair

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

Gunjan is a business executive with deep knowledge of technology businesses, leveraging innovation in business models, and an entrepreneurial background in web-based applications and digital strategies. He has proven success in P&L management, fostering collaboration, building organizational capability, and optimizing processes. These strengths combined with his expertise in technology, operations, partnerships, marketing, product management, and creating significant economic value in U.S. and global markets make him an agile, responsive leader experienced in guiding multicultural teams. Gunjan has extensive Healthcare IT experience. He also is a thought leader in science and technology

Principal Investigators

Linda Dimeff, PhD
Chief Executive Officer

JASPR HEALTH

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.

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 is the creator and developer of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS), an evidenced based treatment for suicide backed by over 30 years of research and multiple randomized controlled trials.

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.

James Bourgeois, MD

Chair, Dept of Psychiatry

Baylor Scott & White

Craig Bryan, PsyD

Executive Director, National Center for Veterans Studies

University of Utah

Katherine Comtois, PhD, MPH

Professor, Dept of Psychology

University of Washington

Diana Cortez-Yanez *

Lived Experience Consultant

Zero Suicide Institute

Paul Goering, MD

Fellow

The Leadership Institute

Julie Goldstein Grumet, PhD

Director

Zero Suicide Institute

James Leaming, MD

Director, Emergency Medicine

Geisinger Health

Cara Lewis, PhD

Associate Investigator

Kaiser Permanente WA Health Research Institute

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

Lorilei Snyder *

Suicide Prevention Advocate

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

Medical Director, Consultation & Complex Care

Allina Health

* Person with lived experience

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