Research Summary: Nicholas Jacobson, PhD, leads a study on the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders on Google search behavior in the US related to mental health symptoms to gain insight into acute mental health consequences associated with the pandemic. Methods: The current manuscript evaluates the impact of stay-at-home orders on […]
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Research Spotlight: Center for Quantitative Biology led by Dr. Michael Whitfield at Geisel School of Medicine
In 2019, the Center for Quantitative Biology was established at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth under the leadership of Michael Whitfield, PhD, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Data Science. This new initiative is part of an exciting opportunity to make precision medicine technologies more broadly accessible to Dartmouth’s diverse […]
Saeed Hassanpour, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel, awarded an NIH R01 Grant to Build New AI Approaches to Lung Cancer
PROJECT TITLE: Clinicopathologic and Genetic Profiling through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Precision Lung Cancer Management FUNDING SOURCENational Institutes of Health (NIH)National Cancer Institute (NCI) PROJECT PERIOD9/25-2019-8/31/2023 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORSaeed Hassanpour, PhD OTHER PROJECT STAFFLaura Tafe, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; […]
NIH Awards $12.5 Million COBRE Grant to Establish Center for Quantitative Biology at Geisel School of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine has been awarded a $12.5 Million COBRE Grant to establish a Center for Quantitative Biology, to be led by Michael Whitfield, PhD, chair and professor of Biomedical Data Science. Read the full press release here: https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2019/geisel-receives-12-5-million-n…
Dr. Saeed Hassanpour Wins 2019 Agilent Early Career Professor Award
Saeed Hassanpour, PhD, an assistant professor of biomedical data science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, and an adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at Geisel and of computer science at Dartmouth College, is the winner of the 2019 Agilent Early Career Professor Award. This year’s award focused on “contributions to […]
Novel scale correlates children’s snacking behaviors with external food cues
Dartmouth researchers develop and validate a brief, parent-reported scale to measure external food cue responsiveness and conditioned eating behaviors for preschool-age children. Preliminary evidence from a new Dartmouth study suggests that external food cue responsiveness is measurable by parental report in preschool-age children. Responsiveness was greater among children with, versus […]
Dartmouth Study Links State Tax Spending to Middle-Aged Mortality Rates
Todd MacKenzie, PhD, leads a study on longevity in the U.S. in relation to state social welfare commitment. There is a strong association between the amount that U.S. states spend on their residents through statewide taxation and state government expenditures and middle-aged mortality rates, according to a new Dartmouth study […]
Professor A. James O’Malley is the recipient of the 2019 ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) Award for Excellence in Methodology in Health Economics and Outcomes Research
The award is given to an exceptional paper that advances the field of health economics and outcomes research and is expected to have a substantial impact on the field with anticipated wide acceptance and application by others. Professor O’Malley’s paper, “Modeling a Bivariate Residential-Workplace Neighborhood Effect when Estimating the Effect […]
Multi-center research team engineers novel noninvasive diagnostic imaging method to detect bladder cancer
I. Sokolov, M. E. Dokukin, V. Kalaparthi, M. Miljkovic, A. Wang, J. D. Seigne, P. Grivas, and E. Demidenko. Noninvasive diagnostic imaging using machine-learning analysis of nanoresolution images of cell surfaces: Detection of bladder cancer. PNAS, 115:12920-12925, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1816459115 The cystoscopy exam is the current standard for bladder cancer detection […]
Michael Whitfield, PhD, Named Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine
HANOVER, NH – Michael L. Whitfield, PhD, has been named the chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Whitfield, a professor of biomedical data science (BMDS) and molecular and systems biology, has served as the department’s interim chair since November 2017. In addition […]