About Jeff Krauss

I am the Chief Medical Officer at Hinge Health, a digital health company seeking to improve the lives of everyday people with chronic conditions by digitizing the delivery of care – starting with musculoskeletal health. I am also a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) physician at the Palo Alto VA (board certified in PM&R and Lifestyle Medicine), a Clinical Assistant Professor (affiliated) at Stanford University, and a certified life care planner. I previously spent 8 yrs in product management and strategy at eBay and Oracle.

After graduating from Harvard University in 1997, I worked at Oracle as a product manager until early 1999, at which time I joined Billpoint, an online payments startup acquired by eBay. During 6 years at eBay, I focused on payments & shipping features, including the integration with PayPal, and was a founding member of eBay’s Product Strategy team, focusing on strategy, innovation, and product research.

In 2004, I changed career direction and pursued a dream of becoming a physician. I completed pre-medical studies at Mills College in Oakland, volunteered at SF General Hospital ED & the Mission Neighborhood Health Center, and spent 2 months studying Spanish in Guatemala.

I attended UC San Francisco Medical School from 2007 to 2012, where I was the co-director of the 2008 UCSF Integrative Medicine Forum, the project director of the “Know Your Telomeres” study in the labs of Elissa Epel, PhD and Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, and first author of a paper on the relationship of telomeres and physical fitness. I did my intern year in Internal Medicine at Harbor UCLA, and residency training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Stanford from 2013-2016.

My current research at the VA/Stanford is investigating the role of lifestyle medicine and digital health in the rehabilitation of neurological (e.g. stroke, spinal cord injury) and orthopedic conditions.