ABOUT
Precision for Behavioral Health.
Purpose Built.
e-QPASS is a clinically validated assessment platform built on a foundation of rigorous psychometric science — and a decades-long commitment to giving behavioral health clinicians the tools they deserve.
The field doesn't need disruption. It needs precision.
OUR MISSION
"Focused Future exists to rise up where the field looks for information. When insight is accurate, care improves. When outcomes are measurable, systems evolve. When understanding comes earlier, lives change."
Focused Future LLC
The field does not need disruption through novelty. It needs new and improved scientifically stable approaches through precision. e-QPASS brings accuracy back to the center of behavioral health care.
Mental health professionals have long operated without the kind of reliable measurement tools that other areas of medicine take for granted. Clinicians are expected to quickly understand what a client needs, build a therapeutic relationship, satisfy organizational demands, and demonstrate measurable outcomes — often with instruments that weren't designed to carry that weight.
e-QPASS closes that gap. A precise, validated starting point so care can begin with clarity rather than approximation.
OUR CONVICTION
Built on decades of clinical research.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND E-QPASS
THE ORIGIN
From QPASS to e-QPASS
The original QPASS — Quick Psycho-Affective Symptoms Scan — was developed by Dr. Scott Lownsdale, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois, to give mental health professionals an immediate, reliable, and measurable baseline for understanding and treating clients.
Focused Future licensed the tool and built e-QPASS — a cloud-based, AI-augmented platform that brings Dr. Lownsdale's validated psychometric framework into modern behavioral health environments.
105
Symptom measures across mental & emotional distress
20+
Of clinical research and validation
600+
Symptom measures across mental & emotional distress
Peer
Reviewed, reliable, and diagnostic agnostic
The team behind
e-QPASS.
LEADERSHIP
Dolores Reidenbach
Founder & CEORegistered Nurse and counseling therapist with a career built around one conviction: mental and emotional health care deserves the same measurement rigor as the rest of medicine. Founded Focused Future to bring Dr. Lownsdale's validated QPASS into a modern, AI-augmented platform.
Emmett Darnell K. Adrian Williams Jr.
Chief Operating OfficerMD-PhD candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with undergraduate research experience at Harvard and Cornell Medical Schools and a degree in neuroscience from Wright State University.
Michael Drawbaugh
Chief Technology Officer30 years of information technology experience building successful products, companies, and technical infrastructures. Provides the engineering foundation that makes e-QPASS secure, scalable, and built for modern behavioral health environments.
Backed by leading Institutions.
RESEARCH & PARTNERSHIPS
Active research collaborations advancing the science of behavioral health measurement.
RESEARCH
SAMA Therapeutics
Collaborating with Dr. Tyler Moore (UPenn) and CEO Shobi Ahmed (Harvard) on adaptive e-QPASS — delivering the same validated insights in 90% less time.
VALIDATION
Bravo Research Group
600+ participants recruited for psychometric calibration, strengthening e-QPASS's foundation for broad clinical adoption.
COMING SOON
PEARL Platform
An AI-powered personalized mental health platform in development with collaborators at Carnegie Mellon and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Researchers and engineers
building what's next.
BUILT ON SCIENCE. DRIVEN BY PURPOSE
A multidisciplinary team of MD-PhD candidates, research scientists, and machine learning specialists advancing the science of behavioral health measurement.
Chynna Smith, MSc
MD-PhD Candidate
Einstein CoM
Katelyn Morrison, PhD
Research Scientist
Carnegie Mellon
Megan Darrell, MSc
MD-PhD Candidate
Einstein CoM
Arnav Dhar
ML Specialist
Duke University
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Guiding Focused Future.
Strategic advisors from behavioral health, clinical research, data science, and value-based care — ensuring scientific rigor and responsible innovation.
Gregory Sample, MS
EVP & COO
Wright State University
Austin Swafford, PhD
President
Intl. Biomedical Research Alliance
Sanjay Dhar
CIO
VetsEZ
Valerie Hoffman, PhD
VP Intervention Science
Woebot Health
Jasmine Miller, MD MPH
Psychiatry Resident
Weill Cornell Medicine
Precision in behavioral heath
is not a luxury.
BUILT ON SCIENCE. DRIVEN BY PURPOSE
It is a necessity. See what e-QPASS can mean for your organization, your clinicians, and your clients.