Stephanie Zawada, PhD, MS

Stephanie Zawada, Ph.D., M.S. is an instructor of neurology and research associate at Mayo Clinic, where she designs and conducts real-world studies that use wearable and nearable devices to predict behavioral changes in patients with vascular and neurologic diseases. She earned a Ph.D. in Clinical and Translational Science at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (2025), where she conducted a novel digital phenotyping study to predict depression from smartphone GPS and accelerometer data in patients with stroke and transient ischemic attack. As a Mayo Clinic-Yale University FDA Center for Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation Scholar, her Ph.D. research on home hospital programs and Medicare patients was featured by HRSA Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and published as a chapter in the recent "Digital Health Care outside of Traditional Clinical Settings" book from Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard. She completed additional training in health economics at multiple DC-area think tanks, where her work was cited in the 2019 Republican Study Committee Health Care Plan, and currently advises on the use of digital health technologies in clinical practice and public health programs as an inaugural member of the American Heart Association Board of Directors’ Emerging Leaders Council (2025-27).  Funding and scholarships for her research and education has included Sleep Research Society, NCATS, PhRMA Foundation, NASA Space Grant, General Electric, and Mayo Clinic.