Digital Health Co/Lab

Innovators Day

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Noon-5 p.m.
Health Education Building Ad Astra Room (5th floor)
KU Medical Center

Digital Health Co/Lab at the University of Kansas is pleased to invite you to Innovators Day 2025, our annual event dedicated to advancing innovation in digital health. This year, we are honored to welcome Joshua Smyth, PhD, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Health Psychology and Professor of Clinical Psychology at The Ohio State University, as our distinguished keynote speaker. His talk titled “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: A Process-Oriented Approach to Digital Health”, will explore how researchers and clinicians with ideas for new digital health tools can conduct early design and implementation studies that promote patient acceptance with new technologies and sustained engagement.

The afternoon also includes interactive panels and flash talks. Attendees can expect to hear about emerging innovations at KU, opportunities for funding and ways to connect with collaborators and resources across the ecosystem. We’ll wrap up with a networking happy hour—perfect for connecting with peers, industry leaders and future collaborators.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Joshua Smyth is an internationally recognized expert on ambulatory assessment and intervention, with a focus on the interplay of psychological stress, emotion, physiology and behavior in everyday life. His work also explores the development and implementation of novel interventions, often using mobile and digital delivery systems. Dr. Smyth is a highly productive scholar with over 400 publications in high impact health, medicine and psychology journals. His work is also scientifically impactful – his (h) index score is 91, with several of his papers collecting more than 1000 citations each. He also has a continuous funding history for over 25 years, largely from the NIH, with over $175M in collaborative grant funding over this period. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Finally, Dr. Smyth is an active and engaged teacher who has received numerous accolades and awards for teaching and mentoring of students and trainees.

View highlights from our 2024 inaugural Innovators Day—an event that brought together over 100 individuals from KU Medical Center, The University of Kansas Health System, University of Kansas and the local digital health ecosystem to celebrate achievements and lay the foundation for future growth.

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Digital Health Co/Lab at the University of Kansas