Nathan Cobb, M.D.
Science Advisor to MeYou Health
For over 20 years, Nate Cobb, MD, has worked in the intersection of health, technology and business. Dr. Cobb led the development of the QuitNet platform, successfully translating existing behavioral research on smoking cessation into the most wildly used tobacco treatment program in the world. Currently, his work focuses on leveraging social networks to effect behavior change through social support and social influence, which includes both retrospective exploration of a 10-year rich database of participant interactions in the QuitNet network and the novel interventions using social utilities like Facebook.
Dr. Cobb received his MD from Boston University, completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Harvard. He is currently a Research Investigator with the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research in Washington DC and holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University Medical School and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Nate readily admits his most over-used phrase is "in theory," a term he also applies to the interest in wearing a tie. When not studying behavior change, taking care of patients in the intensive care unit or aiding MeYou Health's strategic efforts, Nate daydreams of endless hours of fetch with his aging Lab, Vago, or sunny vacations on Tobacco Caye in Belize.
More about Nate:
- fave childhood tv show/comic: Starblazers
- once collected: the complete works of Edgar Rice Burroughs
- is motivated by: helping people help themselves
- finds inspiration in: Albert Camus
- is best known among the team for: being the disembodied voice on Skype
- secret talent is: he knows how to take out an appendix (in theory)
- is the go-to person for explaining: the intricacies of nicotine physiology
- is most productive when: it's after 3AM
- fell fashion victim to: polyester sweaters
- has been online since the days: when a 300 baud modem, a 5MB hard drive and a spare phone line after 10pm made you a sysop
