Psychiatry · AI · Clinical implementation
AI in Psychiatry.
Grounded in clinical care.
I study how ambient AI scribes affect documentation, clinical work and the therapeutic relationship in routine psychiatric care.
Why this work matters
Better tools. Careful evaluation.
My aim is to improve psychiatric care while keeping patients and clinical judgment at the centre. Efficiency matters, but documentation quality and therapeutic alliance matter just as much.
Efficiency
Does the scribe reduce clinician documentation time?
Documentation quality
Does it change the quality of psychiatric assessment reports?
Therapeutic alliance
Does it affect patient-perceived alliance and empathy?
Featured research · I am the principal investigator
AI ambient scribing in routine psychiatric care.
A nonrandomized controlled trial of the AlpineAI Listener Tool in routine outpatient psychiatry at Psychiatrie St. Gallen.
Data collection ongoing · results pendingOutcomes: documentation time · documentation quality (blinded PDQI-9) · alliance and empathy (WAI-SR, CARE) · clinician burnout (BAT)
Read the study overviewPublications & outputs
Open science, from protocol to results.
The trial is registered and its protocol published before any results are in.
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2026 · Protocol
Evaluating the Use of an Artificial Intelligence Ambient Scribe in a Swiss Psychiatric Clinic: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Controlled Trial JMIR Research Protocols · under peer review · DOI to follow
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2026 · Preprint
Protocol preprint: efficiency, documentation quality and therapeutic alliance JMIR Preprints · 111815 · not peer reviewed
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2026 · Registry
AI Ambient Scribe in Psychiatry ClinicalTrials.gov · NCT07777224
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2026 · Article
AI ambient scribes in psychiatry: the new clinical workflow Implementation guide · four recommendations to protect quality of care, patient safety and clinical competence
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2027 · Planned
Three results papers: efficiency, documentation quality, therapeutic relationship Follow on LinkedIn to hear when they are published
Speaking & collaboration
Questions beyond efficiency.
I combine daily clinical work, leadership in an outpatient department and hands-on experience running an AI trial across a multi-site psychiatric clinic.
Clinics & health systems
Evaluating and implementing AI documentation tools: study design, workflows, clinician adoption and patient safety.
Researchers
Collaboration on ambient AI, documentation quality and the therapeutic relationship in mental health care.
Conferences & teams
Talks and workshops on AI in psychiatry, from the evidence to everyday practice.
About
Clinical work informs the questions I ask.
I studied medicine at the University of Ljubljana and practise psychiatry in Eastern Switzerland. At Psychiatrie St. Gallen I work as acting senior physician in the outpatient department in Wattwil, which I headed in 2026, and I am part of the clinic's digital transformation team. Alongside my specialist training, I am completing a PhD at the University of St. Gallen on AI ambient scribing in psychiatric care.
What drives me: psychiatry can get better with AI, but only if we measure what it does to patients, to clinicians and to the relationship between them.
More about me- Clinical
- Acting senior physician, Psychiatrie St. Gallen
- Research
- PhD candidate, University of St. Gallen (HSG)
- Digital
- Digital Transformation team, Psychiatrie St. Gallen
- Teaching
- Clinical courses for medical students, University of Zurich
- Education
- Medical degree, University of Ljubljana
- Languages
- Slovenian, English, German
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