David A. Benaron (born November 21, 1958) is an American digital health entrepreneur, physician, and former Stanford University professor.

[3] He completed fellowships in physiology at the National Institutes of Health under Dr. Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos, in biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Britton Chance, and at Stanford Medical School in neonatal intensive care under Dr. David K. Stevenson.

[10] In 2002 he received the Tibbetts award from the United States Congress for commercialization of scientific innovations[11] and was inducted into the Stanford Inventors Hall of Fame in 2012 for his "glowing mice" – a technique that uses bioluminescent bacteria for real-time pathogen imaging.

He became Chief Medical Officer at Jawbone, focusing on the development of wearables for monitoring health metrics, after the acquisition of his company Spectros in 2015.

[13] More recently, he has been working to extract deep intent from analysis or the digital exhaust we leave behind during our daily activities, to understand mood, motivation, and mindset.