Yvette Roke has been a psychiatrist at GGz Centraal, the fourth-largest psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands, since 2001. An innovator and researcher, she earned her PhD in 2013, focusing on prolactin-related side effects of antipsychotics in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Post-PhD, Yvette developed SAM (Stress Autism Mate), an E-mental health app for ASD self-management.

She won the Health Valley Bridge Prize and Tenzinger Healthcare Smart Innovation Award in 2021, and SAM earned a bronze award from VGZ in 2022. Her team also created SAM Junior for young people with ASD and 1e STAPP for those on mental health care waiting lists. These apps, co-created with lived experience individuals, are scientifically validated, secure, and available in seven languages.