Presenter

Garrett Ash, PhD, is an assistant professor of medicine, biomedical informatics, and data science at Yale and research health scientist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System Pain Research, Informatics, Multi-morbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center. He has extensive experience applying PGHD to supporting lifestyle change interventions in research and clinical improvement projects. They include his NIH mentored research scientist (K01) award trialing a biometrically-driven digital application to promote safe exercise in adults with type 1 diabetes, and a VA Office of Connected Care-funded quality improvement project focused on developing a novel platform that overlays multiple data streams (i.e., data from wearable, patient self-reported outcomes) to create patient-facing weekly reports for adults with type 2 diabetes.