Stanford Mobile Health 2012

Archive for the Speakers 2012 Category

Vinay Gidwaney, DailyFeats

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, DailyFeats Vinay Gidwaney is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at DailyFeats. We face challenges that threaten the foundations of our society. We eat too much junk food. We watch too much junk TV. We buy too much junk. These challenges define

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Nikhil Arora, Back to the Roots

Co-founder, Back to the Roots. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Nikhil is a May 2009 summa cum laude graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, from the Haas School of Business and Department of Political Science. Prior to founding Back to the Roots in 2009, Nikhil spent

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Bernie Knobbe, Yahoo!

Senior Director, Global Benefits, Yahoo! Bernie is currently Sr. Director, Global Benefits with Yahoo!, a global technology leader in digital media and internet content and communications, in Sunnyvale, CA. He is responsible for global benefits including all health care, retirement, lifestyle and wellness/well-being benefit plans, and benefits

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David Sobel, MD, MPH, Kaiser Permanente

Director, Patient Education and Health Promotion, The Permanente Medical Group David S. Sobel, M.D., M.P.H., is director of Patient Education and Health Promotion for The Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region.He practices adult primary care medicine at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices in San

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Reman Child, OhLife

Co-founder, OhLife OhLife is a journal that works through email – it sends you emails asking “How’d your day go?” and all you have to do is reply. Over time, you get a record of what’s happened in your life just by replying to some emails. OhLife

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Eric Hekler, PhD, Arizona State University

Assistant Professor, School of Nutrition and Health Promotion Arizona State University Dr. Eric Hekler, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University and is the director of the Designing Health Lab @ASU. His research focuses on how technology

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Emily Knight & Melanie Stuckey, Western University, Canada

Doctoral Students, Western University, London, Canada Emily Knight and Melanie Stuckey are doctoral students at Western University in London, Canada. Boot Camp alumni, we are currently working on a health intervention in a primary care setting using persuasive design approaches for health behavior change and activity prescription

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