Thomas Thesen, PhD
Title(s)
Associate Professor of Medical Education
Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Co-Director, Neuroscience & Neurology - MD Program
Co-Director, Medical Learning Sciences - MD Program
Director, Digital Health & AI Curriculum - MD Program
Co-Director, Geisel Academy of Educators & Scholars
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Technology & Behavioral Health
Department(s)
Medical Education
Education
PhD, University of Oxford
Postdoc, University of California, San Diego
Websites
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Google Scholar Profile:
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Contact Information
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Office: Remsen 237E
Email: thomas.thesen@dartmouth.edu
Professional Interests
Medical Education
Digital Health
Cognitive Neuroscience
Global Health Education
Biography
Neuroscience Course Director Excellence Award, American Academy of Neurology
Distinguished Lecturer Award, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award, American Academy of Neurology
Stand Up for STEM Educational Organization Award
Teaching Innovation Award, University of Houston
Fellow, Royal Society of Biology, London, UK
Tursky Award, Society for Psychophysiological Research
Generative AI as the First Patient: Practice, Feedback, and Confidence. Fairness-aware K-means clustering in digital mental health for higher education students: a generalizable framework for equitable clustering. Identifying sex- and gender-specific endocrinological, lifestyle, psychosocial, and socio-cultural targets for Alzheimer's disease prevention in Africans: The Female Brain Health and Endocrine Research in Africa (FemBER-Africa) project. A generative AI teaching assistant for personalized learning in medical education. Tailored Education: Helping Every Student Across the Finish Line. LLM-based generation of USMLE-style questions with ASPET/AMSPC knowledge objectives: All RAGs and no riches. WAS 2024 Fall Series Push and Pull: Navigating Strains in Health Education. AI Patient Actor: An Open-Access Generative-AI App for Communication Training in Health Professions. Disruption of functional network development in children with prenatal Zika virus exposure revealed by resting-state EEG. Investing in equitable healthy aging: Why Africa must reform social pension schemes to improve Alzheimer's disease and dementia outcomes. |
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