Palo Alto University

My guest today is Shiri Sharvit, a clinical psychologist, researcher, and technology entrepreneur working at the intersection of behavioral science, healthcare, and artificial intelligence.

She's the CEO and co-founder of Resolve Together and a distinguished professor of research at Palo Alto University.

Before that, she served as the chief clinical officer and was the first employee at Elios Health, where she helped develop and scale AI technology for behavioral healthcare.

Shiri, welcome to the show.

Also received a number of research grants myself, uh, to study family-based interventions.

Uh, already in 2016, we received a grant to study couple-based interventions for patients post-bariatric surgery that was delivered over Zoom, uh, so a couple of years prior to the pandemic.

In 2017, I was invited with a number of colleagues, uh, from both Stanford and Palo Alto University to deliver a webinar on behalf of the American Psychological Association on using technology in clinical practice.

I think it was one of the first webinars that showcased a number of interventions and helped therapists think of how to, uh, develop skills and tools and conceptualize where technology can be integrated into their care, and what are the skills that could be, or tasks that could be delivered and delegated to AI technology.

I am a clinical fellow speech-language pathologist working at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital with adults.

I earned my Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Social Action at Palo Alto University, then went to the University of Washington's post-baccalaureate program in Speech and Hearing Sciences, and then I went to Emerson College for my Master of Science.

Outside of my job, I continue my work helping people as an anti-bullying activist and a disability justice advocate, as well as a motivational speaker.

And I've been a social justice and political activist and public speaker for the past 15 years, if you can believe it.

Um, but there were allegations of sexual assault, and it wasn't a, a fraternity house.

It was when he was still in high school at Georgetown Prep, and the accusation was that he'd sexually assaulted this woman, Christine Blasey Ford, who is now a professor at Palo Alto University.

And what was striking about that hearing as well, and this kind of relates to the first half of our discussion on the podcast today, is that if you shout loud enough, then you get the president's ear and you get his support.

And Brett Kavanaugh was kind of almost sinking under the allegations from Christine Blasey Ford until he went before the Judiciary Committee to kind of argue his case, uh, in the confirmation hearing to say, "You're just weaponizing the justice.