Dr. Garrett Ash
Assistant Professor
General Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

I am an exercise physiologist leading clinical trials and quality improvement projects focused on implementing and repurposing wearable devices as digital therapeutics. After predoctoral work employing 24hr ambulatory blood pressure to study exercise response, I moved to the behavioral field and completed a postdoc where I visualized and human-delivered integrated biosensor data to promote behavioral change, as a lead developer and health coach in studies of personalized sleep and alcohol feedback study among heavy drinking young adults. As a PI, my focus is virtual reality-based peer group exercise and coping skills training for youth with type 1 diabetes, as well as biometrically-driven exercise coaching for adults with type 1 diabetes. I am also active in several national groups optimizing the implementation of consumer grade wearable devices in the consumer and healthcare spaces. These include the Sports Technology Quality Framework by the Sports Tech Research Network, and two of the Veterans Affairs Office of Connected Care Virtual Care CORE quality improvement and evaluation projects.