Peter Washington, PhD
Dr. Washington is an assistant professor in the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) in the Department of Medicine at UCSF. His research group, supported by NIH and NSF, focuses on computational and human-centered aspects of consumer digital health informatics. He also teaches Epi 233 (Introduction to Clinical Artificial Intelligence). Prior to joining UCSF, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for 2 years. He completed his PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford University, MS in Computer Science at Stanford University, and BA in Computer Science at Rice University.
Dr. Washington's lab, the UCSF TECH Lab (https://techlab.ucsf.edu/), focuses on building digital diagnostics, therapeutics, and remote monitoring tools using wearables, smartphones, websites, and specialized health hardware for a variety of health conditions that we are passionate about. Our long-term goal is to understand how we can translate these technologies into real-world practice, designing them with these implementation goals in mind.