Apps for Therapy, Therapists, and Self-Help: An Overview

Dr. Rego is Chief of Psychology and Director of Psychology Training at Montefiore Medical Center and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He is Board Certified in Cognitive Behavioral Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, Certified in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy by the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, and Certified as a Cognitive Therapy Trainer/Consultant by the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. He is also a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies and a Founding Clinical Fellow of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. 

Dr. Rego specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD, depression, insomnia, and body focused repetitive behaviors and has 45 publications (including 3 books) and more than 190 professional presentations on these and other topics, including working with traditional media and use of social media to educate the public about mental health and in the identification, implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies (e.g., prescription digital therapeutics, wearable emotion prosthetics, care intelligence solutions, etc.) to improve treatment outcomes.

Dr. Rego is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) and is listed in the Who's Who in America and the Who's Who in Medicine Academia. He was the recipient of the 2008 Award for Distinguished Early Career Psychologists by the New York State Psychological Association, the 2015 Peterson Prize from the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University, and the 2018 Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. In September of 2021, he was selected to join the third cohort of the Montefiore Physician Leadership Academy's Physician Leadership Program, which convenes physician leaders with an interdisciplinary faculty team every other month for 24 months and is limited to just 30 physician leaders per cohort.
 

Dr. Rego is the ADAA 2023 Conference co-chair.