Aditya Vaidyam MS

Aditya Vaidyam is a second-year medical student at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and formerly Assistant Director of Clinical Systems at the Division of Digital Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His research focus ranges from engineering and architecting healthcare systems that improve access and quality of care to investigating the underlying symptomatology of mental illness. As a principal architect of the LAMP Platform, Vaidyam focuses on elucidating the key design goals of a healthcare platform that supports personalized just-in-time adaptive interventions and digital phenotyping in populations with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. In clinical research, Vaidyam focuses on the use of machine learning algorithms for longitudinal data analysis and personalized interventions for mindfulness and patient education. Vaidyam also investigates the digital therapeutic alliance as manifested in non-conventional digital formats, such as voice assistants, as well as the needs, requirements, and barriers to adoption in patients with serious mental illness. Vaidyam assisted in developing a program for digital skills training to help patients with limited technical experience access and rely on digital tools and apps assisting them in managing their physical or mental health. Vaidyam holds a BS in neurobiology & physiology and computer science from Purdue University, as well as an MS in medical science from Boston University.