OCTOBER 2, 2026
Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
About the Presentation:
About the Presenter: Shannon Wiltsey Stirman is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and a Psychologist at the National Center for PTSD’s Dissemination and Training Division. She is the co-director of the Center for Responsible and Effective AI Technology Enhancement for PTSD Treatment (CREATE). Areas of research emphasis include implementation science (particularly training, fidelity, adaptation and sustainment), evidence-based treatment for PTSD, depression, suicide prevention, and use of technology to support access to evidence-based mental health interventions. As a co-lead of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science’s Mental Health Innovation and Technology Hub, she worked with a team at Stanford to develop Pause a Moment, a digital wellbeing program for healthcare workers who experience COVID-19 stressors (pam.stanford.edu). Most recently, she has been working on the use of Large Language Models to support evidence-based mental health interventions. She is the co-author of Getting Unstuck from PTSD: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy to Guide Your Recovery. She has served on the Board of Directors for the American Psychological Association and as the Chair of the Established Network of Expertise for the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration. She was awarded the Association of Behavior and Cognitive Therapy’s Mid-Career Innovator award in 2018. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, VA QUERI, private foundations, and the Canadian Institute for Health Research.