Sarah Nelson
PhD
Cambridge Health Alliance
Sessions
Track 1: Research/Policy
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sun
Director of Research Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance Dr. Nelson is the Director of Research at the Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Nelson is involved in a variety of projects, covering gambling, impaired driving, and mental health and addiction among Tribal youth and communities. Her gambling work has focused on both predicting the development of gambling problems through analysis of online gambling records, and evaluating gambling interventions such as voluntary self exclusion. Dr. Nelson's work with gambling records has involved mapping patterns of online betting behavior, developing predictive models based on early play patterns to detect subscribers who are at risk for gambling problems, and examining specific characteristics of sports gambling that might relate to the development of gambling problems. As an extension of that work, Dr. Nelson has developed an interest in the accuracy, use, and potential problems with those predictive models and other uses of AI in the gambling sphere.