Reza Mirza: The History and Future of Single-Subject Science

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2 min readApr 28, 2018
Reza Mirza, internal medicine resident at McMaster University, speaking at the Quantified Self Symposium 2018.

Reza Mirza is a resident doctor at McMaster University, and he’s the lead author of “The history and development of N-of-1 trials” in The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. N-of-1 has existed informally since at least the 16th century, is relatively inexpensive, and can be of great benefit to individual patients. As part of a new generation of practitioners striving to give N-of-1 a central place in medicine, Reza offers a brief reflection on its history and asks the tough question: Why aren’t N-of-1 Trials ubiquitous?

Reza Mirza recounts the history of n-of-1 trials in science.

Highlights from the QS Symposium 2018

Introduction to the Quantified Self Symposium 2018

Reza Mirza: The History and Future of Single-Subject Science

Hugo Campos: 10 Years With An Implantable Cardiac Device, Still No Data Access

Jana Beck: Carb Intake and 60 Lipid Measurements

Azure Grant: Lessons from Blood Testers, a Participant-Led Project

Dorothy D. Sears: Circadian Rhythms and Cardiometabolic Health

Carsten Skarke: Characterizing the Chronobiome with “Supertrackers”

Whitney E. Boesel: Cholesterol Variability Across Postpartum Menstrual Cycles

Xiao Li: Finding the Signal in Rich Self-Collected Data

Katherine Kim: What Counts as Clinical Data? Incorporating Self-Collected Observations into CVD Research

Jeffrey Olgin: Data Aggregation for N-of-1 to “N-of-Many-Ones”

Dana Lewis: Social Infrastructure for Participant-Led Research

Boomer Anderson, Marcel van der Kuil: Participant Perspectives on Regulation of Participant-Led Research

Camille Nebeker: Informed Consent, Self-Consent

Steven Steinhubl: Where “All of Us” Meets All of Us

Sunita Vohra: What N-of-1 Can Do

Benjamin Smarr: Changing the Definition of Baseline

Maggie Delano: The Case for Open Instrumentation

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