Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
The PMWC 2025 Digital Health Showcase will provide 15-30 minute speaking opportunities for selected companies working with the latest technologies in precision medicine to highlight their contributions to the field.
Confirmed Presenting Companies:
Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UCSF
Biography
Peter Washington, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prior to this role, he was an Assistant Professor in the Information Computer Sciences department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Prior to his faculty roles, Peter completed his PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford University, MS in Computer Science at Stanford University, and BA in Computer Science at Rice University.His research group, funded by NIH and NSF, focuses on consumer digital health informatics, or the use of consumer technologies such as smartphones, wearables, and websites to facilitate remote, scalable, accessible, and equitable digital diagnostics, therapeutics, interventions, and monitoring tools.
Talk
Challenges and Opportunities in Consumer Digital Health
This talk will describe current challenges and opportunities in the burgeoning field of consumer digital health informatics. This field encompasses the use of consumer devices such as wearables, smartphones, and websites, to create scalable, accessible, and performant digital diagnostics, endpoints, interventions, and therapeutics.
Digital Health Showcase:
UCSF
The Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) serves as the academic home for applied clinical informatics researchers within the UCSF Department of Medicine.
Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Clinical Science Lead, Digital Biomarkers, Verily
Biography
Sooyoon Shin, PhD, is the Clinical Science Lead for the Digital Biomarkers team at Verily, where she leads the research and evidence generation for digital measures. She oversees the development, validation, and implementation of these measures in both internal and external clinical studies, driving cross-functional collaboration. With over two decades of expertise in neuroscience, data science and clinical science, she is committed to advancing clinical trials and patient care through patient-centric digital solutions.
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Improving Clinical Trial Efficiency with Wearables in Parkinson's Trials
Wearable sensor technology enables capturing patient-centric digital measurements passively and continuously. Drug development for Parkinsons disease would benefit greatly from digital endpoints to replace the current, subjective, gold standard tests. We present a case study on Verilys Study Watch demonstrating high compliance throughout multi-year studies, and clinical validity for treatment response with passive measurements.
Digital Health Showcase:
Verily
Verily is an Alphabet health technology company focused on research, care, and public health to deliver on the promise of precision health.
