Peter Washington

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.

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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.