Srijan Sen
Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Professor of Depression and Neurosciences
Center Director
University of Michigan Depression Center
Professor of Psychiatry
Research Professor
Michigan Neuroscience Institute
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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Srijan Sen
Center Director
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  • About

    Srijan Sen is the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Professor of Depression and Neurosciences and Director of the Eisenberg Family Depression Center at the University of Michigan. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, completed a psychiatry residency at Yale University and returned to Michigan as faculty in 2009. The Intern Health Study is a longitudinal cohort study that assesses stress and mood in training physicians, enrolling over 25,000 participants from 100+ institutions. The project has produced high-impact findings across a wide range of interdisciplinary academic topics including genomics, mobile technology, economics, gender and racial disparities, survey methodology and medical education policy. Work from the study has been published in JAMA, BMJ, New England Journal of Medicine and other leading journals covered in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine and other media outlets. Dr. Sen is a member of the National Academy of Medicine Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being.

    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
    • Center Member
      Precision Health Initiative
    • Center Member
      Eisenberg Family Depression Center
    • Center Member
      Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
    • Center Member
      Taubman Institute
    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Correction: Use of mobile technology to identify behavioral mechanisms linked to mental health outcomes in Kenya: protocol for development and validation of a predictive model.
      Njoroge W, Maina R, Frank E, Atwoli L, Wu Z, Ngugi AK, Sen S, Wang J, Wong S, Baker JA, Weinheimer-Haus EM, Khakali L, Aballa A, Orwa J, Nyongesa MK, Shah J, Waljee AK, Abubakar A, Merali Z. BMC Res Notes, 2024 Mar 12; 17 (1): 72 DOI:10.1186/s13104-024-06731-w
      PMID: 38475887
    • Journal Article
      Intensive longitudinal assessment following index trauma to predict development of PTSD using machine learning.
      Horwitz A, McCarthy K, House SL, Beaudoin FL, An X, Neylan TC, Clifford GD, Linnstaedt SD, Germine LT, Rauch SL, Haran JP, Storrow AB, Lewandowski C, Musey PI, Hendry PL, Sheikh S, Jones CW, Punches BE, Swor RA, Hudak LA, Pascual JL, Seamon MJ, Harris E, Pearson C, Peak DA, Domeier RM, Rathlev NK, Sergot P, Sanchez LD, Bruce SE, Joormann J, Harte SE, Koenen KC, McLean SA, Sen S. J Anxiety Disord, 2024 May 5; 104: 102876 DOI:10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102876
      PMID: 38723405
    • Journal Article
      Trends in Sexual Harassment Prevalence and Recognition During Intern Year.
      Frank E, Zhao Z, Fang Y, Cleary JL, Viglianti EM, Sen S, Guille C. JAMA Health Forum, 2024 Mar 1; 5 (3): e240139 DOI:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0139
      PMID: 38517425
    • Journal Article
      Unspoken Truths: Mental Health Among Academic Surgeons.
      Collins RA, Herman T, Snyder RA, Haines KL, Stey A, Arora TK, Geevarghese SK, Phillips JD, Vicente D, Griggs CL, McElroy IE, Wall AE, Hughes TM, Sen S, Valinejad J, Alban A, Swan JS, Mercaldo N, Jalali MS, Chhatwal J, Gazelle GS, Rangel E, Yang C-FJ, Donelan K, Gold JA, West CP, Cunningham C. Ann Surg, 2024 Mar 1; 279 (3): 429 - 436. DOI:10.1097/SLA.0000000000006159
      PMID: 37991182
    • Journal Article
      Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference.
      Meng X, Navoly G, Giannakopoulou O, Levey DF, Koller D, Pathak GA, Koen N, Lin K, Adams MJ, Rentería ME, Feng Y, Gaziano JM, Stein DJ, Zar HJ, Campbell ML, van Heel DA, Trivedi B, Finer S, McQuillin A, Bass N, Chundru VK, Martin HC, Huang QQ, Valkovskaya M, Chu C-Y, Kanjira S, Kuo P-H, Chen H-C, Tsai S-J, Liu Y-L, Kendler KS, Peterson RE, Cai N, Fang Y, Sen S, Scott LJ, Burmeister M, Loos RJF, Preuss MH, Actkins KV, Davis LK, Uddin M, Wani AH, Wildman DE, Aiello AE, Ursano RJ, Kessler RC, Kanai M, Okada Y, Sakaue S, Rabinowitz JA, Maher BS, Uhl G, Eaton W, Cruz-Fuentes CS, Martinez-Levy GA, Campos AI, Millwood IY, Chen Z, Li L, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Jiang Y, Tian C, Martin NG, Mitchell BL, Byrne EM, Awasthi S, Coleman JRI, Ripke S, PGC-MDD Working Group , China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group , 23andMe Research Team , Genes and Health Research Team , BioBank Japan Project , Sofer T, Walters RG, McIntosh AM, Polimanti R, Dunn EC, Stein MB, Gelernter J, Lewis CM, Kuchenbaecker K. Nat Genet, 2024 Feb; 56 (2): 222 - 233. DOI:10.1038/s41588-023-01596-4
      PMID: 38177345
    • Journal Article
      Returning Individual Research Results from Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry.
      Shen FX, Baum ML, Martinez-Martin N, Miner AS, Abraham M, Brownstein CA, Cortez N, Evans BJ, Germine LT, Glahn DC, Grady C, Holm IA, Hurley EA, Kimble S, Lázaro-Muñoz G, Leary K, Marks M, Monette PJ, Onnela J-P, O'Rourke PP, Rauch SL, Shachar C, Sen S, Vahia I, Vassy JL, Baker JT, Bierer BE, Silverman BC. Am J Bioeth, 2024 Feb; 24 (2): 69 - 90. DOI:10.1080/15265161.2023.2180109
      PMID: 37155651
    • Journal Article
      Unraveling the interplay of circadian rhythm and sleep deprivation on mood: A Real-World Study on first-year physicians.
      Shapiro B, Fang Y, Sen S, Forger D. PLOS Digit Health, 2024 Jan; 3 (1): e0000439 DOI:10.1371/journal.pdig.0000439
      PMID: 38295082
    • Journal Article
      Effectiveness of gamified team competition as mHealth intervention for medical interns: a cluster micro-randomized trial.
      Wang J, Fang Y, Frank E, Walton MA, Burmeister M, Tewari A, Dempsey W, NeCamp T, Sen S, Wu Z. NPJ Digit Med, 2023 Jan 11; 6 (1): 4 DOI:10.1038/s41746-022-00746-y
      PMID: 36631665