About me
Dr. Dennis P. Wall, PhD is Professor of Pediatrics (Systems Medicine), of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Medical School. He is also the Founder of Cognoa, a leading pediatric behavioral health company. Cognoa is developing digital diagnostic and therapeutic products to enable earlier and more equitable care and improve the lives and outcomes of children and families living with behavioral health conditions. At Stanford, Dr. Wall leads a lab in Pediatric Innovation focused on developing methods in biomedical informatics to disentangle complex conditions that originate in childhood and perpetuate through the life course, including autism and related developmental delays.
For over a decade, first on faculty at Harvard and now at Stanford University, Dr. Wall has innovated, adapted and deployed bioinformatic strategies to enable precise and personalized interpretation of high resolution molecular and phenotypic data. Dr. Wall has pioneered the use of machine learning and AI for fast, quantitative and mobile detection of neurodevelopmental disorders in children, as well as the use of machine learning systems on wearable devices for real time out-of-clinic therapy. These precision health approaches enable quantitative tracking of progress during treatment throughout an individual’s life and large-scale data generation of a type and scale never before possible, defining a new paradigm for behavioral detection and therapy that has won Dr. Wall several awards including a spot in the top ten of the World’s top 30 autism researchers.
Dr. Wall has received numerous awards including the Fred R. Cagle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biology, the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research, the Harvard Medical School Leadership award, Stanford Teagle Fellowship for excellence in teaching, the Stanford Clinical Innovator Award, the Slifka/Ritvo Clinical Innovation in Autism Research Award for outstanding advancements in clinical translation. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Genetics at Stanford University before joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School.