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 […]
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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 […]
Geisel researchers integrate novel network analysis and geospatial methods to evaluate care coordination for breast cancer patients in rural areas
Moen EL, Kapadia NS, O’Malley AJ, Onega T. Evaluating breast cancer care coordination at a rural National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center using network analysis and geospatial methods. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019; 28 (3): 455-61. http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/28/3/455.long Summary: Physician patient-sharing networks offer a novel lens through which to study cancer […]
Saeed Hassanpour, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel, awarded an NIH R01 Grant for biomedical informatics research
PROJECT TITLE: Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening and Risk Assessment through Deep Learning on Medical Images and Records FUNDING SOURCENational Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH)NLM Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics (R01) PROJECT PERIOD02/12/2019 – 01/31/2023 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORSaeed Hassanpour, PhD OTHER PROJECT STAFFArief Suriawinata, MD (Co-I); Lorenzo […]
Spring 2019 workshops for i2b2 and REDcap announced
This spring, SYNERGY will be running a series of workshops for two informatics tools, REDCap and i2b2. REDCap is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and data. i2b2 is a patient cohort discovery tool. Are there enough eligible patients to support my study? How many patients […]
How to estimate the effect of proximity to fast food establishments on individuals’ BMI while accounting for possibly correlated neighborhood effects of residence and workplace?
The paper “Modeling a Bivariate Residential-Workplace Neighborhood Effect when Estimating the Effect of Proximity to Fast-Food Establishments on Body Mass Index” by James O’Malley and colleagues was published online in Statistics in Medicine on November 20, 2018 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sim.8039). This paper makes an important advance in the statistical methodology for hierarchical […]