Consulting & Digital Health

Neuroscience and Clinical Research
 I consult on science and clinical enterprise: emotion, learning and memory, behavioral health, patient engagement/activation, open science, research design and data analysis.  This has included work across academia, industry, government and private research organizations and think tanks, including: Pharmacia Upjohn, Columbia University, the National Institutes of Health, Andy Grove’s Kinetics Foundation, Friends in Deed, University of Southern California, University of Haifa, Sci Foo Camp.  

 

Digital Health: My work involves supporting people in awareness of difficult information (physical, emotional, cognitive), so that this awareness can bring about realistic processing of the full present context of life, and be the basis of effective action.  The alternative to that awareness is cycles of avoidance, misattribution of discomfort, feelings of helplessness and subsequent unskillful soothing maneuvers that stabilize problems and obstruct better health.  To scale what I have learned, I turned to my prior history as a software developer and co founded Medaptive Health.  Our self-service platform enables healthcare/pharma/ research organizations to quickly build information-rich, collaborative, real-world interactions with people, in support of clinical trials and care.  The Medaptive Health HIPAA-compliant cloud platform and content-ready, fully functional white-label apps allow our clients to rapidly deploy and nimbly maintain these adaptive channels of interaction on Android, iOS and web at scale, with no programing.  Our goal is to reduce the burden of illness, and improve the quality and ease of communication between people and their research/care partners.