Ward, Emily J.
Hawrilenko, Matt
Wu, Minyu
Novak, Jon
Brown, Millard
Chekroud, Adam M.
Article History
Received: 30 June 2025
Accepted: 4 May 2026
First Online: 21 May 2026
Competing interests
: E.J.W., M.H., M.W., J.N., M.B., and A.M.C. reported being employed by and holding equity in Spring Care Inc outside the submitted work. In addition, A.M.C. reported being the lead inventor on 3 patent submissions relating to treatment for major depressive disorder (US Patent and Trademark Office number Y0087.70116US00 and provisional application numbers 62/491 660 and 62/629 041) outside the submitted work. Finally, A.M.C. reported holding equity in Carbon Health Technologies Inc, Wheel Health Inc, Parallel Technologies Inc, Healthie Inc, and UnitedHealthcare; receiving consulting fees from Fortress; and providing unpaid advisory services to health care technology startups outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.