Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an assistant professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in an article about Therabot, a text-based AI app in development at Dartmouth designed to improve access to mental health care. “We had to develop something that really is trained in the broad repertoire that a real therapist would be, which is a lot of different content areas. Thinking about all of the common mental health problems that folks might manifest and be ready to treat those,” Jacobson said. “That is why it took so long. There are a lot of things people experience,” Jacobson said.

Read article – Megan Romano, an associate professor of epidemiology, is featured in an article about her research into the exposure to forever chemicals in a high seafood diet. “Understanding this risk-benefit trade-off for seafood consumption is important for people making decisions about diet, especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant people and children,” Romano said.

Read article – Quotes Megan Romano, an associate professor of epidemiology, in a feature story about her study that found higher consumption of seafood is linked to a higher risk of PFAS exposure. “Basically, New Hampshire is a kind of case study that quantifies seafood consumption, particularly in a New England state, in order to estimate the potential risk of PFAS exposure that may come from very frequently consuming marine seafood,” said Romano. (Picked up by NHPR.)

Watch video – Nicholas Jacobson, an assistant professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in a segment about artificial intelligence and mental health. “Most people don’t receive any type of mental health care, and a lot of that is, I think, a scale problem,” Jacobson said.

Watch video – Saeed Hassanpour, a professor of biomedical data science, is featured in a segment about a first-of-its-kind symposium held this week at Dartmouth that explored the potential benefits and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in healthcare. “It’s actually going to improve efficiency, going to reduce health care costs. It is going to improve the accuracy,” Hassanpour said.

Read article – Features a study led by Stuart Lewis, associate professor of medicine, that found that older adults who neglect themselves often experience other mistreatment at the same time and are at risk of further abuse. “Self-neglect is a huge unmet need in elder mistreatment,” Lewis said. “It has been, historically, a very difficult circumstance to intervene in ways that provide benefit to the person.”

Read article – A feature story on Laura Tafe, an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, whose art is featured in the anthology Artists Remaking Medicine. “There are so many stories of people wanting to be seen as the human that they are, both as a patient and as a health care worker. We need more of that human-centered care,” Tafe said.

Read article – James Sargent, a professor of pediatrics, biomedical data science, and community and family medicine, is featured in an article about his research into how the risk of COPD rises with regular cigarette smoking in childhood. “In this sample, the developmental window for increased risk due to childhood smoking ended at about age 20 years, which coincides with the time (FEV1) reaches its peak during adolescence,” Sargent said.

Read article – Gina Fernandez, an assistant professor of medicine and medical education, is quoted in an article about staying active through skiing as you age. It’s not the age that will limit you, but your cardiovascular health,” Fernandez said. (Picked up by The Seattle Times.)

Read article – Philip Schaner, an associate professor of medicine, is quoted in an article about de-escalating treatment for HPV-associated oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma. “The optimal combination of de-intensification of radiation dose with or without systemic therapy, and the extent to which treatment attenuation can be safely diminished for different pathologic risk factors, remains unclear,” Schaner said.