Brian E. Bunnell, PhD

Dr. Bunnell serves as Director of the iMH Lab and Assistant Professor in the University of South Florida Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, and a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Florida (License Number: PY 10497). He is also Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer for Adhere.ly LLC, a faculty startup that aims to improve therapist and client adherence to evidence-based practice. He received his PhD in 2015 from the University of Central Florida. He completed his pre-doctoral internship in clinical psychology and NIMH F32-funded post-doctoral fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Bunnell's interdisciplinary research integrates implementation science and biomedical informatics to develop and evaluate digital health solutions to improve the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders across the lifespan. His programmatic research follows three core aims: (1) applying advanced analytics to improve measurement and prediction of mental health disorders and related impairment; (2) evaluating the quality, safety, outcomes, and user experiences of telemedicine in routine clinical care; and (3) using iterative, user-centered design approaches to develop and evaluate innovative digital health tools that enhance healthcare quality (eg, telemedicine, eHealth, mHealth, artificial intelligence, virtual reality). His overarching goal is to improve the delivery of high-quality mental healthcare and the ability of patients to access it. His expertise is in intervention development; iterative, user-centered design, development, and evaluation of health technology solutions; clinical trial design and management; and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. He has over 90 peer-reviewed publications and has served as PI/Co-I on over 18 federally (eg, NIH, DoD, FEMA/DHS) and local/state funded research projects.