Read article – Agnes Binagwaho, adjunct professor of pediatrics and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, was recently appointed as the vice chancellor at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Kigali, Rwanda. As vice chancellor of UGHE, Professor Binagwaho is expected to continue establishing the UGHE’s reputation as a global hub for health care delivery science.

Read article – Article cites research conducted at the Geisel School of Medicine that analyzed youth smoking and what motivates it from several perspectives, including the music kids hear and the movies they see. The researchers found that adolescents who see lots of smoking on the big screen are more likely than others to smoke.

Read article – Quotes Elijah Stommel, professor of neurology, who was the lead author of a recent study that found eating mercury-laden seafood may raise the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study will be presented in April at the American Academy of Neurology’s 69th Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass.

Listen here – As a guest on “Vermont Edition,” William Hudenko, assistant professor of psychiatry and adjunct assistant professor of the department of psychological and brain sciences, discusses software and app, called Proxi, that he created that allows patients to create online networks of friends, relatives and doctors—and share information among them. It also simplifies the process of legally authorizing that information to be shared with different people.

Read article – The Geisel School of Medicine and four additional New Hampshire schools have rolled out a program that’s aimed at preventing drug addiction in patients before it starts. The practice is called SBIRT, which stands for screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment. John Damianos ’16, Geisel ’20, said the approach fosters self-reflection, and reduces feelings of shame and stigma.

Read article – A segment about the Geisel School of Medicine’s recent Match Day Ceremony in which fourth-year medical students learned where they will go to complete their residencies. The segment features comments by Duane Compton, interim dean of the Geisel School of Medicine and professor of biochemistry and cell biology, as well as comments by fourth-year medical students Sophie Leung, Liam Guerin, Asia Peek, and Lovelee Brown.

Read article – Features an interview with Mariétou Ouayogodé, post-doctoral fellow at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who discusses how the increased emphasis that the Affordable Care Act and Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) placed on prevention is important in reducing the high cost of older patients, especially as the baby boomer generation reached retirement age.

Read article – An opinion piece by Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine and lecturer at the Thayer School of Engineering, where she discusses how biosecurity and cybersecurity have similar dangers—and similar potential benefits. “In the wrong hands, both types of knowledge can be used to develop a weapon instead of a vaccine or a patch,” says Hoyt. “The genetic tools and exploit software that enable these activities are becoming easier to use and to acquire, prompting security experts to ask one question with growing urgency: How can we protect against misuse without limiting discovery and innovation?”