Jeanne Clark (SOM – General Internal Medicine)

Thomas Woolf (Physiology & Computer Science)

Yanif Ahmad (Computer Science)

Dr. Clark’s team is building ‘Metabolic Compass,’ a mobile health stack for investigating circadian rhythms and how our temporal decisions influence near- and long-term health. By tracking when people eat, when they sleep, and when they exercise through Apple’s HealthKit, they will collect a rich, open dataset for studying time restricted feeding and intermittent fasting. Their data will allow users to ask and answer personalized health questions, such as “How much time should I leave between exercising and eating?” or “How early should I eat dinner before going to bed?”. Users will consent through Apple’s ResearchKit, enter data through activity trackers (e.g., FitBit, Jawbone) and third party apps (e.g., MyFitnessPal, Argus), and compare their health against our population through our AWS cloud services. In addition to deploying on iOS, Dr. Clark’s team will explore an Android App to expand our user base during this proposal.