Scientific Advisory Board
The Path’s Scientific Advisory Board is an independent group of researchers and clinicians in digital mental health, behavioral science, psychiatry, and AI. They are not employees or contractors — they advise on and guide our study design and clinical research program.
The board
Chair
Chief Science Officer, The Path · Founder & CEO, Fit Minded, Inc.
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board and The Path's Chief Science Officer. A behavioral research scientist with 250+ peer-reviewed publications and the former Head of Science at Calm, she leads the clinical research program and guides the board's work on study design.
Professor of Psychology & Informatics, University of California, Irvine
A licensed clinical psychologist and mental health services researcher, Dr. Schueller studies how technology can improve mental health and mental health services. For over two decades, he has worked on the development, evaluation, and implementation of digital mental health treatments across diverse settings and populations. He earned his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and trained at UC San Francisco.
Columbia University / Harlem Hospital · Brainstorm, The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation
A psychiatrist and medical anthropologist with an MD-PhD from Harvard. As a physician-researcher, she works extensively in global health and at the intersection of AI and mental health. She practices psychiatry at Harlem Hospital / Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and is a member of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation.
Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare · Psychiatry, UC San Francisco
Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives at UC Berkeley, with appointments in Computational Precision Health at UC Berkeley and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. A licensed clinical psychologist, he directs the Digital Health Equity and Access Lab (dHEAL), where his research focuses on AI- and mobile-enabled mental health interventions, digital therapeutics, and expanding equitable access to evidence-based care for underserved populations.
Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University · Head of Clinical Research, Deliberate AI
A licensed clinical psychologist, behavioral scientist, and expert in digital mental health. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine of Boston University and Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and previously served as Chief Clinical and Scientific Officer at RealizedCare. Her expertise spans evidence-based methodologies, clinical-product development, user experience and safety, and regulatory processes.
Associate Professor & Director of Industry Engagement, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University
A behavioral health economist whose expertise sits at the intersection of health economics, advanced quantitative methods, real-world data analytics, and behavioral science. His research uses randomized controlled trials and population-level analyses of mobile health, administrative, and clinical datasets to identify scalable behavior-maintenance strategies — including mindfulness-based approaches — that produce clinically meaningful improvements across diverse populations.
Why it matters
The Path is a mental-health platform, so the quality of the science behind it is not a marketing detail — it is the product. The Scientific Advisory Board gives our research program independent scrutiny from people who spend their careers studying digital mental health, behavioral change, and the responsible use of AI in care.
Advisors review study design and methodology and challenge our assumptions. They are not employees, and they do not deliver care through The Path. Their role is to make sure the claims we make are ones the evidence can support.
You can see how that work shows up in the platform on our clinical evidence page, and meet the scientists who run the program day to day on the team page.