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

Co-Founder, Board Member

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.
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Linda Dimeff, PhD

Founder, Chief Executive 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.
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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.
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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

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Linda Dimeff, PhD
Chief Scientific 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.

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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.

Edwin Boudreaux, PhD
Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine Research
UMass Memorial Medical Center
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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