# Kate H. Bentley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School ![Kate Bentley](/sites/g/files/omnuum9586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-05/KHB%20headshot%206.jpg?h=04584c27&itok=_3YzkVFb) smartphone [617-724-7741](tel:617-724-7741) email Dr. Kate Bentley is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Suicide Prevention Research Program in the Center for Precision Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a licensed Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH. She is also a Research Associate at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University in 2017 and completed her pre-doctoral internship at MGH. Her research is focused on the development, evaluation, and implementation of scalable transdiagnostic interventions for suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injurious thoughts and behaviors and frequently co-occurring disorders. She is also particularly interested in the application of mobile devices to better understand these phenomena and provide support to high-risk individuals in real-time. - ## People Type [Research Associates](/people-type/research-associates)