Shahar’s Work

Precision Health & Well-Being

Precision Health & Well-Being

Personalizing Wellness through Data:

Dr. Lev-Ari is at the forefront of personalizing preventive medicine. Working with Stanford’s Genetics department, he integrates big data and biology into health promotion. His projects use wearable devices and multi-omic profiles to gather a detailed picture of an individual’s health status. With these data, he aims to tailor interventions—such as individualized digital wellness programs—to each person’s profile. The landmark “Lasting Change” study embodies this approach, tracking hundreds of participants to identify biomarkers of burnout, stress and well-being. This work is pioneering new methodologies to predict and enhance long-term health outcomes at an individual level.

The Lasting Change
Study

Workplace burnout has become a global crisis. Despite its prevalence, effective evidence-based interventions remain limited, and the mechanisms driving long-term change upon the drivers of burnout have yet to be well-characterized. Our study aims to determine the psychological, digital and biological biomarkers of burnout and personal fulfillment.

Link to study

Inquiry Based Stress
Reduction (IBSR)

Lev-Ari’s lab has implemented the clinical application and assessed the mechanisms and effectiveness of the inquiry based stress reduction intervention (IBSR), developed by Byron Katie.
Research spans promotion to prevention, treatment, and recovery, including 15 studies assessing the effects of inquiry based stress reduction on physical and mental health among healthy individuals, teachers, adults who stutter, cancer patients and survivors, women carrying a mutation in the BRCA gene, and post-partum mothers.

Link To Article

PTSD – Smartwatch
Monitoring

This study underscores the significant impact of media exposure on PTSD development and the value of continuous physiological monitoring for early detection of PTSD and anxiety after mass traumatic events.

Link To Article

Transforming futures: A Precision medicine study
on rehabilitation 
of child sex trafficking survivors

Child sex trafficking is a devastating crime that shatters young lives. Despite its growing prevalence, there’s an alarming lack of scientific understanding of its effects on survivors. This study aims to change that by deeply examining the impact of trafficking on children and evaluating a revolutionary rehabilitation program.