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Alan Atkins
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development
BioDr. Al Atkins is a psychiatrist providing talk therapy and medical management in English and Spanish.
Dr. Atkins grew up in California and started his mental health career facilitating therapy at a prison in Buenos Aires. He teamed up with his patients and colleagues to build a climbing wall inside the prison, allowing patients to challenge themselves physically and mentally. After medical school at Brown University, Dr. Atkins completed psychiatry residency and founded a research team dedicated to investigating the healing power of walking in nature. After residency, Dr. Atkins traveled to Colorado to complete a two year fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. There, he served as Chief Fellow and pursued specialized therapy training. Dr. Atkins has been awarded the Kimberly Kelsay Curiosity Award for his enthusiasm for learning from his patients and the Catcher in the Rye award for "going the extra mile" for his Spanish-speaking Unaccompanied Refugee Minor (URM) patients. Some career highlights have included teaching meditation neuroscience to doctors in Cambodia and getting to learn from doctors and patients in Kumasi, Ghana.
Contemplative practice, psychotherapy, humor and nature time permeate both Dr. Atkins' clinical and personal interests. His clinical style involves a slow-moving dynamic emphasizing trust, understanding, and diagnostic humility. He takes an integrative and minimalist approach; often prescribing things like morning walks or returning to a favorite hobby before resorting to medications. -
Scott W. Atlas
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Atlas investigates the role of government and the private sector in health care quality and access, global trends in health care innovation, and the key economic and civil liberty issues related to health policy. His medical research has centered on advanced applications of new MRI technologies and the key economic issues related to the future of such technology-based advances.
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Altay Atli
Overseas Studies - Istanbul, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDr. Altay Atlı is co-teaching the “Exploring Contemporary Turkey” course at Bing Overseas Studies program hosted by Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business and Department of International Relations of Koç University, as well as the Asian Studies program of Boğaziçi University, and the founding director of “Atlı Global”, an Istanbul-based boutique advisory firm providing consulting and executive training services on global affairs and international business. His areas of academic interest include international political economy, economic diplomacy, business-government relations and the political economy of Turkish foreign policy. A graduate of the German High School (Deutsche Schule) in Istanbul, he completed a B.A. degree in Economics at Boğaziçi University, an M.A. degree in International Business at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Boğaziçi University. Dr. Atlı was affiliated with Boğaziçi University’s Asian Studies Center as well as Sabancı University Istanbul Policy Center, and he also worked as research coordinator at Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK). Dr. Atlı was chosen a "Global Emerging Voices Fellow” by Torino World Affairs Institute, in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Australian National University, and Stiftung Mercator; and he was recognized as a “Young Academics Fellow” by the Global Relations Forum. He is an expert member at the China Network of Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) and he regularly appears on programs in channels like Bloomberg, BBC World, Turkish Radio Television (TRT), Ekotürk, TvNet, CGTN, NHK Japan, Channel News Asia, China Radio International, commenting on developments in global affairs and Turkey’s international relations. Dr. Atlı is also involved in sports management and he is currently a board member at the Turkish Handball Federation.
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Aparna Atluru, MD, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPhysician Mental Health, Resident Mental Health
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Ashish Atreja
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
BioI work at the intersection of health care technology and artificial intelligence. My primary clinical specialty is Gastroenterology and my focus on AI is broad application and validation of clinical AI across diverse use cases.
After completing a master's in public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I have completed internal medicine residency, informatics fellowship, and gastroenterology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. I have been working at the intersection of technology and healthcare for the last 25 years, was the first gastroenterologist to receive informatics board certification. In leadership roles, I have led Epic implementations as informaticist, served as the Chief Innovation Officer, Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and most recently as CIO and inaugural Chief Digital Health Officer at UC Davis Health. For my executive roles, I have been recognized with numerous national honors, including being named one of the Top Digital Health Officers by Becker’s, a Top 40 Healthcare Transformer in 2017, a Top 50 Healthcare Leader by HIMSS in 2021, a Top 30 Health IT Influencer by Health Tech Magazine in 2022, a Top 150 Business Transformer Across global industries by Constellation Research and a top 35 Digital Health officer by Beckers in 2023.
As a digital health entrepreneur, I have successfully licensed technologies, and founded companies originating from academic medical centers. I was the co-founder of Rx.Health, a venture-backed spinout from Mount Sinai Health System that automated digital care delivery for major organizations including UnitedHealthcare and five of the top ten health systems in the U.S., ultimately impacting over 90 million patient lives before its successful acquisition. As a co-founder of GenServe.AI, I am currently working with a team focused on democratizing access to secure Generative AI and autonomous care for all.
I have been NIH-funded since 2014, including for IBD digital monitoring, have published more than 108 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 250 posters, abstracts, and talks at national meetings. My research focuses on building, implementing, and evaluating digital health and AI-powered solutions aimed at improving patient and population outcomes, for which I am also known as the "App Doctor."
