Developing AI-Assisted Patient Treatment – Zachary Cohen BA’09
Zachary Cohen completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Psychology in 2009, taking neuroscience and clinical psychology classes, and went on to complete a doctorate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. After a postdoc period, he accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Arizona in the clinical program, becoming the clinical director.
Zach has emerged as a major figure in the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning to generate precision treatment rules that identify the optimal treatment for a given patient. He was named an Association of Psychological Science Rising Star in 2022.
During the last several years, Zach has organized a series of mini-conferences on treatment selection and co-designed an algorithm-driven stepped care mental health system that is being adopted throughout the University of California and California State systems.