Ken Mahaffey's Talk on the Quantified Self: Grand Rounds

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July 16, 2025

Key takeaways

The key to creating a sustainable and impactful scientific platform, lies in how you engage your participants in the process of collecting and interpreting your data.

This is one of the lessons Dr. Ken Mahaffey, Director of Stanford’s Center for Clinical Research learned from his experience as Principal Investigator for Verily’s Project Baseline Study, and is core to how we at Human Health think about engaging our users with their clinicians and the broader academic community.

Watch our latest Grand Rounds, a discussion between Prof. Mahaffey and Human Health’s Medical Director, Dr Steve Gluckman on the future of personalised medicine and big data.

Dr. Steven Gluckman
Medical Director @ Human
Dr Steven Gluckman trained as a surgeon, acquiring both a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Sydney. After spending time practicing in notable Australian hospitals and clinics, Dr Gluckman was passionate about having a broader impact in innovation with his medical expertise, where he now spends most his time.
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