Dr. Fiona Coutts is a scientist at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and an assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She completed her PhD in 2023 at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London in the Department of Psychosis Studies, and then spent two years as a postdoc in the Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health lab at the same department. Her awards include the Society of Biological Psychiatry International Travel Fellowship, Schizophrenia International Research Society Early Career Award, and the British Association for Psychopharmacology Postdoctoral Award.
Areas of research
Dr. Coutts leads the Translational AI for Precision Psychiatry (TAPP) lab, the goal of which is to use multimodal clinical and biological data to develop AI-based tools for psychiatry that have real-world translation potential, with a strong focus on feasibility, tolerability, and fairness. She is particularly interested in developing clinical decision-support tools that recommend psychiatric treatment options based on an individual’s projected efficacy, side effects, adherence and their personal preference. Her current projects include predicting non-response, discontinuation, and side effects in patients taking antipsychotics, transferring prediction models developed on clinical trial data into electronic health records, and stratifying patients with psychiatric disorders based on early brain indicators of later neurodegenerative risk. Dr. Coutts is also involved in developing methodologies and frameworks for validating, translating and obtaining regulatory approvals for AI-based tools at CAMH and globally.
Publications
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