Read article – Quotes medical student Dina Abdalla in an article about free vaccine clinics administered by volunteers from the Geisel School of Medicine, many of whom are first-year students. “Studying and taking exams is one thing,” Abdalla said, “but then actually practically doing all of the stuff that we’re here to do is what’s actually fulfilling.”
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Dartmouth Expands Cold Cap Therapy Service to Southern New Hampshire Patients — New Hampshire Union Leader
Read article – Linda Vahdat, a professor of medicine, is featured in an article about the expansion of the Dartmouth Cancer Center’s cold cap therapy service to chemotherapy patients in the Nashua area. “Not losing hair is very important for many patients,” Vahdat said. “It preserves a sense of privacy for the patient — and when patients look in the mirror, they don’t look sick … It makes a big difference in leading a ‘normal’ life while undergoing cancer chemotherapy.”
Using AI as a Therapist? Why Professionals Say You Should Think Again — CNET
Read article – psychiatry, talks about how AI chatbots that are confident and helpful can provide a false sense of the software’s competence. Mentions Therabot as an example of chatbots designed within clinical guidelines. “It’s harder to tell when it is actually being harmful,” Jacobson said.
Regulators Struggle to Keep Up with the Fast-Moving and Complicated Landscape of AI Therapy Apps — Associated Press
Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in an article about efforts to regulate AI therapy chatbots with Therabot featured as an example of careful development. “The space is so dramatically new that I think the field needs to proceed with much greater caution that is happening right now,” Jacobson said. (Also picked up by ABC News, Yahoo News, The Hindu, US News and World Report, Houston Chronicle, SF Gate, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle P-I, and others.)
Antarctic Research Tests Healthy Bodies and Minds for Astronauts (Video) — ABC News Australia
Watch now – Jay Buckey, a professor of medicine and director of the Space Medicine Innovations Laboratory, is quoted in a segment about the Australian Antarctic Division’s work with NASA on medical research and operational medicine. “If you look at what ends missions on Antarctica and other places, a lot of time it’s the psychosocial factor. Either crews that don’t get along or people who develop depression or stress. So that’s a really, really important consideration and shouldn’t be trivialized,” Buckey said.
Dartmouth Graduate Selected as One of NASA’s 10 Astronaut Candidates — Valley News
Read article – Lauren Edgar ’07 is one of 10 people NASA selected to join its 2025 astronaut candidate class. While at Dartmouth, Edger took a class called “Life on Mars?” with Mukul Sharma, a professor of earth sciences, and former astronaut Jay Buckey, now a professor of medicine and director of Dartmouth’s Space Medicine Innovations Lab. “She always wanted to be an astronaut and so her dream and hard work have borne fruit,” Sharma said. “I remember making a deal with her—when she brings Mars samples back, I will have the first dibs!”
These 99 ‘Lab Hacks’ Will Make Your Scientific Work Easier — Nature
Read article – Katherine Bradley D ’17 MED ’25, contributes to a list of top advice for scientists. “Instead of purchasing poster tubes for conferences, look for a local poster shop, which can often give you poster shipping tubes for free if they have extra,” Bradley said.
NIH Grants Dartmouth $12M for Implementation Science —Valley News
Read article – Jeremiah Brown, a professor of epidemiology, is quoted in an article about the five-year, $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health awarded to the Geisel School of Medicine to study implementation science. “Implementation science helps to bridge that gap between what we know we should be doing to doing what we should be doing,” Brown said.
AI Therapy: How It Works, Benefits, and Limitations — Forbes
Read article – Saeed Hassanpour, associate professor of epidemiology and biomedical data science and founding director of the Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence, is quoted in a story about how AI chatbots work. They are “trained on a huge amount of data on the internet, and combining some other techniques, it can summarize and capture a lot of knowledge and information about the world and how humans interact and operate,” Hassanpour said.
Dartmouth’s play2Prevent Lab and Nonprofit Proof Positive Collaborate to Design Mental Health Games for Autistic Youth
The play2PREVENT Lab at the Geisel School of Medicine has received a grant from Proof Positive, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting the well-being of the autism community, to fund a two-year initiative to create and evaluate digital health games that help autistic youth build emotional resilience, social confidence, and positive coping strategies.