PAWS presented at Apple Health Research Summit 2025

A new milestone for the PAWS project! Aydin Zahedivash and Scott Ceresnak presented preliminary results of the Pediatric Apple Watch Study (PAWS) at this year's Health Research Summit held on the Apple campus. The PAWS project, launched in early 2025, is focused on understanding the diagnostic role of commercial wearable devices in pediatric arrhythmia workup. Here are some of the results presented:💡 So far, we've demonstrated that children can effectively record ECG tracings during episodes of arrhythmia with ECG App on Apple Watch, and that many clinically-relevant arrhythmia events were captured using the device.

⏳ Full study results will be available in approximately 2-3 months, but our preliminary results show that consumer wearable devices can have a useful role in scaling access to physiologic sensors for children. Especially as consumer devices play a bigger role in health and wellness, ensuring that children have access to the latest medical technology will help us serve more patients and provide more options for timely diagnosis.🩺 Fundamentally, the PAWS project is one of many impactful projects that have come out of our Biodesign Building for Digital Health course. Our students built the mobile application that that powered the study and allowed for secure, large-scale collection of patient ECGs for the study. Amazing work, Shriya R., Caitlin Kunchur, Ananya Vasireddy, Sidharth Gopisetty, Julia Rhee, Danny Park, Abhinav A., Riya Karumanchi!!

Thank you to the Apple Investigator Support Program for hosting an awesome event!A huge shoutout to the study team for making this possible: Paul Schmiedmayer, Shriya R., Henry Chubb, Heather Giacone, Kara Motonaga, William Goodyer, Bruna Natielli Alves Silva, Vicky Bikia, PhD, Vishnu Ravi, MD, Oliver Aalami, Garrick Olson