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John Pestian

Prof and Endowed Chair of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Biomed Informtcs Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Joint Faculty Oak Ridge National Lab

John Pestian is an accomplished individual with a strong background in inventing artificial intelligence tools to address mental illness, supported by over 150 peer-reviewed publications and 20 patents/patents pending.

His expertise lies in converting AI into solutions utilized by hospitals, clinics, and schools for early identification of various mental illnesses and suicidal ideation.

Pestian holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Health Services from Virginia Commonwealth University, a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Psychology from Saint Francis University, and an MBA in Business Administration and Management from Franciscan University of Steubenville.

He previously served as a Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Informatics, as well as the Director of Computational Medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

For more information on his work, visit http://pestianlab.cchmc.org or decode.cchmc.org.

Highlights

Feb 25 · linkedin

Explore a thought-provoking piece in Time magazine that delves into the importance of AI in the realm of social media for suicide prevention (https://lnkd.in/gc5yab9a). To learn more about how we're using cutting-edge AI for the early identification of pediatric anxiety, depression, and suicide, visit our Decode site at decode.cchmc.org.

Jan 22 · linkedin

Here's a link to our paper "High dimensional predictions of suicide risk in 4.2 million US Veterans using ensemble transfer learning," published in Nature Scientific Reports last week.

Death by suicide is complex, and so is the paper. Nevertheless, it's a big step in the right direction that shows how committed teams from the VA, the US National Laboratories, and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center combined complex clinical and biological data with advanced technology to predict suicide risk in Veterans.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did doing the research.

https://lnkd.in/gK_vvbAa

Take care, John Pestian, Ph.D. MBA Professor and Endowed Chair, Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Biomedical Informatics Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center University of Cincinnati Joint Faculty, Oak Ridge National Lab,  Guest Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab

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Cincinnati Metropolitan Area