Mohsen Omrani

Co-founder & CEO, OPTT

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Mohsen Omrani is the co-founder and CEO of OPTT, a Kingston platform that delivers therapist-guided cognitive behavioural therapy on behalf of healthcare organizations. A medical doctor with a PhD in neuroscience, he developed the tool in 2018 with Queen's psychiatry professor Nazanin Alavi to lower the cost of mental health care.

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Technology and mental health in the COVID era — Joseph De Leo, Arash Zohoor, and Mohsen Omrani

Health · May 2020

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We develop a platform for delivering online psychotherapy targeted at healthcare organizations, so they can bring digital mental health support to their patients. Our goal is to lower the cost and make mental health more accessible.

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Queen's professors develop therapy platform to help mental health professionals' patientsQueen's Partnerships and Innovation

2021

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Who is Mohsen Omrani?

Mohsen Omrani is the co-founder and CEO of OPTT, a Kingston digital mental health company, and a medical doctor with a PhD in neuroscience who teaches psychiatry at Queen's University.

What is OPTT?

The Online PsychoTherapy Tool: a platform healthcare organizations use to deliver therapist-guided cognitive behavioural therapy through pre-designed modules, so clinicians can treat more patients.

When did OPTT start?

Omrani co-developed it with Dr. Nazanin Alavi in 2018 out of Queen's University in Kingston, and has been CEO since 2019.

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