Dr. Meredith Gansner is an assistant professor and board-certified child psychiatrist at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and has previously worked at the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Boston Children’s Hospital and Cambridge Health Alliance. She received her BA from Williams College and her MD from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Following medical school, she completed her residency training in adult psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and her child psychiatry fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance. Her research explores high-risk digital media use in adolescents, particularly those who have existing psychiatric diagnoses, and the use of smartphone-based digital phenotyping and ecological momentary assessment to assess and manage high-risk digital media habits. For her research, she has received a K23 career development award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a Dupont Warren Fellowship Grant and Shore Faculty Development Award through Harvard Medical School, and pilot funding through a P50 ALACRITY Center grant. She is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry media committee, has written articles about mental health and media for The Psychiatric Times, WBUR Cognoscenti, The Boston Globe, and Slate magazine, and authored the book, Teen Depression Gone Viral, about the complexities of treating adolescent depression in the digital age.