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Phil Wagner
CEO & Founder of Sparta Science
- Health
- Human Performance
- Movement
- 📍 San Francisco, CA
Dr. Phil Wagner is the CEO & Founder of Sparta Science, a Movement Health Intelligence company dedicated to helping the world move better.
Founded in 2014, Sparta Science applies modern data science techniques that advance industry best practices and optimize how organizations assess, understand, and improve health & well-being.
With 4 patents, several more pending, and over 20 published, peer-reviewed research studies, Sparta Science continues to advance the Movement Health technology industry.
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BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Phil Wagner
CEO & Founder of Sparta Science
- 📍San Francisco, CA
- Health
- Human Performance
- Movement
Dr. Phil Wagner is the CEO & Founder of Sparta Science, a Movement Health Intelligence company dedicated to helping the world move better.
Founded in 2014, Sparta Science applies modern data science techniques that advance industry best practices and optimize how organizations assess, understand, and improve health & well-being.
With 4 patents, several more pending, and over 20 published, peer-reviewed research studies, Sparta Science continues to advance the Movement Health technology industry.
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Political debate at work was not encouraged when I was training to be a doctor at the LAC+USC Medical Center in the early 2000s.
On the 13th-floor jail ward, we had a professional duty to care for drunk drivers and thieves just like any other patient and leave any opinions about criminal justice policy for their appropriate venues.
Sparta, a Menlo Park, Calif., technology firm, offers a combination of hardware and software that allows teams to identify their players’ risk of sustaining various injuries and tailor training programs to increase the probability of avoiding such injuries.
The assessment only takes a minute or two. Players perform six consecutive vertical jumps on a force plate, which resembles a bathroom scale, measures the forces exerted on the ground and gathers data.
Innovation is about adoption, not invention; creating something valuable is much easier than gaining consistent adoption of such an invention into an everyday workflow. ⅓ of our team has now been dedicated to customer success, acknowledging that the relationship and education of organizations is paramount for an innovation to be successful.
Founder Phil Wagner believes he’s uncovered the secrets for minimizing athletic injuries while maximizing performance. Phil Wagner is a man who believes in controlling his physiological responses, not letting them control him. Each night, he uses a technique called coherence training to harmonize his heart rate and breathing to maximize the restorative delta sleep phase. Upon rising, he spends the first three hours of his morning under red lights to stimulate the mitochondria in his retinas to produce more energy.
Timeline
Jul 2008 - Present
Sparta Science
Founder & CEO
Jul 2008 - Dec 2015
Sparta Performance
Founder & CEO
Aug 2003 - May 2008
University of California, Los Angeles
Strength & Conditioning Coach
2003 - 2005
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
MD, Medicine
2001 - 2003
Thomas Jefferson University
MD, Medicine
Aug 2001 - May 2003
University of Pennsylvania
Strength & Conditioning Coach
Aug 1999 - Jan 2001
University of California, Berkeley
Strength & Conditioning Coach
1996 - 1999
University of California, Davis
BS Exercise Physiology
Ask me
| Why do [technology/treatments] that ‘work’ in research fail in the real world? |
| How do you see the role of humans vs. technology in healthcare in the next 10 years? |
| Where are organizations getting it ‘wrong’ regarding BIG data in healthcare? |
| What are the most prominent challenges organizations face in trying to improve Movement Health outcomes? |
| Why is Movement Health such an urgent problem for healthcare as a whole? |
