10 Facts About David Benaron

David A Benaron was born on November 21,1958 and is an American digital health entrepreneur, physician, and former Stanford University professor.

David Benaron is a member of SPIE, and a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Optics.

David Benaron completed graduate school at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Health Sciences and Technology programs.

David Benaron completed fellowships in physiology at the National Institutes of Health under Dr Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos, in biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr Britton Chance, and at Stanford Medical School in neonatal intensive care under Dr David K Stevenson.

David Benaron left Stanford in 2002, but continued his association with the university as a consulting professor until 2016.

David Benaron founded his first company when he was 13, and received his first venture capital while in medical school for a device to improve medication compliance.

David Benaron became Chief Medical Officer at Jawbone, focusing on the development of wearables for monitoring health metrics, after the acquisition of his company Spectros in 2015.

David Benaron joined Jawbone Health as Chief Medical Officer in 2017.

At a panel on precision medicine at the 2016 BIO International Convention in San Francisco, David Benaron spoke about a future where the need for regular health check-ups could be replaced by wearable health monitoring, and where big data and precision medicine could help to prevent chronic disease through early detection.

David Benaron was born in Los Angeles, California to Canadian parents.