Russell Dubois

Vice President - Clinical Quality and Innovation

BetterHelp

May 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

Acting as a critical member of the executive leadership team reporting to the President and responsible for overseeing all clinical aspects of the organization. This includes ensuring the highest standards of clinical quality, managing clinical operations nationally and internationally across consumer and health plan markets, driving regulatory compliance, fostering clinical innovation, and providing strategic clinical leadership both internally and externally. Providing a pivotal role in shaping the future of virtual mental health and wellness services at BetterHelp and ensuring our services meet the evolving needs of clients and stakeholders.

Clinical Advisor

Blueprint

Oct 2023 - Current (3 years)

Co-Founder

HiLine Consulting

Sep 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)

Co-founded a healthcare consulting company focused on virtual mental health and digital health products, services, and applications

Grew a network of consulting subject matter experts to 30+ across academic, commercial, and clinical practice settings

Formed academic partnerships with clinical data science researchers and labs as a pathway for early stage digital mental health product research and validation

Provided targeted consultation services to three companies who went on to successfully raise new rounds of funding

Committee Member, Measurement Based Care

American Psychological Association

Jun 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)

Appointed by the APA Board of Professional Affairs (BPA) and the Committee on Professional Practice and Standards helping to establish measurement-based care professional practice guidelines for psychologists.

Mentor

Therapists in Tech

Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 9 months)

Provide mentorship to clinical therapists interested in pursuing a career in digital health / mental health technology with a focus on business development, clinical product and design, and unconventional skills applications across company functions.

Member

Society for Digital Mental Health

Mar 2022 - Current (4 years 7 months)

Senior Director, Enterprise Clinical Strategy and Quality

Teladoc Health

Oct 2023 - May 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Responsible for driving the mental health strategy for Teladoc Health and for the clinical quality and patient safety function of behavioral health, encompassing the complete spectrum of offerings ranging from video visits with psychiatrists and therapists to digital and coaching solutions, on a national and global scale.

Leading the design, development and/or enhancement of clinical offerings and other capabilities that would enable Teladoc Health to create the highest-quality, patient-centric solutions within the mental health domain.

Monitoring, interpreting, and incorporating advances in clinical medicine, clinical quality and patient safety, data science, and technology that enable value from Teladoc’s solutions b

Guest Lecturer

UC San Diego

Oct 2022 - Oct 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Head of Clinical & Customer Success

Blueprint

Aug 2018 - Oct 2023 (5 years 3 months)

Brought a digital health company from pre-seed to Series B by building measurement-based care services and solutions for a broad range of health settings (e.g., MCOs, private group practices, academic medical centers, residential treatment centers, iOP/PHP, student population health)

Acted as the key measurement-based care and evidence-based treatment subject matter expert for all aspects of the business including strong cross-functional collaborations with executive team members in sales, marketing, customer success, and product design and development.

Drove the strategy, execution, and team management of a best-in-class implementation and retention operation leading to 115%+ net revenue retention and 95%+ renewal r

APA Internship

Western Youth Services

Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 1 month)

- Provided outpatient mental health services to children, families, and adults among a primarily Vietnamese and Hispanic client population

- Developed group curriculums for MediCal-adapted Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), and Seeking Safety

- Provided structured weekly supervision to practicum therapists at the masters and doctoral level with a focus on skills development, measurement-based care, and deliberate practice

- Played a role in interdisciplinary consultation and program development initiatives across alternative service lines and county partnerships represented within the Western Youth Services organization

- Delivered 15 compr

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Psychologist Extern

Hasbro Childrens Hospital Alpert Medical School at Brown University

Sep 2016 - Sep 2017 (1 year 1 month)

- Provided clinical services across three rotations within the Hasbro Children’s Hospital line of services: Psychiatric Inpatient, Comorbid Medical and Psychiatric Partial Hospital Program, and the Pediatric Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Program

- Training emphasis in pediatric health psychology with a particular focus on evidence-based treatments for chronic pain management, eating disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, and psycho-oncology

- Led individual and group therapy with children age 6-20 and provided clinical liaison services for patients’ family and caregivers

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Behavioral Scientist; Funded Harvard Research Fellow

Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School

Jan 2016

Funded research fellowship at the Harvard/MGH Eating Disorder Clinical and Research Program. Primary investigator on network analysis applied to eating disorder psychopathology. Published multiple first-author papers on novel network science approach for chronic health issues (EDs) and associated symptomology

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Psychologist Extern

Franciscan Hospital for Children

May 2015 - Mar 2016 (11 months)

- Provided individual and group therapy to children and adolescents in a locked residential treatment facility that acted as a step-down from inpatient

- Training emphasis on crisis stabilization, safety assessments, and comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

- Delivered three integrated neuropsychological evaluations spanning cognitive, intellectual, and personality domains.

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Behavioral Scientist; Funded Doctoral Researcher

Applied Psychology Program for Eating and Appearance Research

Sep 2014 - Sep 2019 (5 years 1 month)

• Involvement in local and international research projects concerning eating pathology, mindfulness, and network analysis
• Focus on experimental studies and novel statistical approaches applied to eating disorders
• Clinical emphases include investigation of cognitive bias in eating and appearance concerns and using network analysis to model eating disorder psychopathology
• Performed literature reviews, translated theory and evidence into novel design intervention, set up experiments, measured and analyzed data
• Published over 12+ papers (and more still currently underway) as a result of quantitative research agenda

Industrial Organizational Psychological Assessor

DAmoreMcKim School of Business at Northeastern University

Aug 2014 - Aug 2015 (1 year 1 month)

- Counseling and assessments of cultural competencies among MBA students at Northeastern University

- Focus on personal strengths identifications and problem-solving in culturally-diverse organizational settings

- Report writing based on behavioral assessment and quantitative data in an organizational context

Behavioral Science Research Staff

Veterans Administation

Apr 2013 - Apr 2014 (1 year 1 month)

• Involvement in a nation-wide research project focusing on barriers to care and brief interventions for military sexual trauma
• Duties included manuscript writing and editing, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, systematic literature reviews, database creation and maintenance, and general management of a multi-site, nation-wide survey project
• Clinical emphases included protective and risk factors for PTSD, treatment adherence, and men’s health

Research Coordinator

University of California San Diego

Jan 2009 - Jul 2010 (1 year 7 months)

• Assisted in the design and implementation of visual perception experiments
• Focus on biological motion and ambiguous figure perception
• Acquired proficiency in data analysis and computation and well as experimental programming in Superlab, R, and Matlab software packages

Crisis Counselor

Center for Community Solutions

Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 (1 year 1 month)

• Crisis intervention through phone-based clinical services
• Office of Emergency Services approved training in crisis intervention, sexual assault, and domestic violence
• Delivered phone-based referrals for services involving sexual assault and domestic violence

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