Read article – Features a study co-authored by Dartmouth researchers into blood tests for diagnosing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). (Picked up by WebMD and others.)

Read article – An interview featuring associate professors of medicine Garrett Wasp and Amelia Cullinan about the quality improvement project designed to increase the occurrence and documentation of serious illness conversations in The Dartmouth Cancer Center’s sarcoma and head and neck cancer clinics. “Oncology practice guidelines indicate we should have serious illness conversations early on—and for all patients with advanced cancer,” Wasp said.

Watch now – Features Chief Medical Officer of The Jed Foundation, Laura Erickson-Schroth, MED ’09, in an interview about the mental and emotional challenges students face as they return to the classroom. “Young people are thinking a lot about the same things we’re thinking about as adults,” Erickson-Schroth said. “So, they have on their minds things like political and cultural issues, like wars around the world, financial insecurity, racial inequality.”

Listen now – Features Dartmouth Health CEO Joanne M. Conroy ’77, a professor of anesthesiology, in a podcast interview discussing what it’s like to lead a rural academic health system. “In essence, when you serve rural communities, you serve through other members of those communities: other hospitals, other organizations, other nonprofits. That’s how you’re effective in delivering care in rural America,” Conroy said.

Read article – Quotes Paula Schnurr, a professor of psychiatry, in an article about the use of virtual reality in treating military servicemembers with PTSD. “Virtual reality for PTSD and other disorders is effective, but it’s not more effective than standard therapy,” Schnurr said.

Read article – Amber Barnato, the director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is interviewed on Her Story exploring how her medical career experiences led to her focus on palliative and end-of-life care.

Read article – Features Daniel R. Lucey, a clinical professor of medicine, in an article about tomato flu, reported in the news as a “new” viral infection. “This is not a new disease, and is not a new virus,” Lucey said.

Read article – Brian Shiner, a professor of psychiatry and of The Dartmouth Institute, is quoted in an article about treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder. “There really has been a lot of interest in finding new medications for PTSD in the field,” Shiner said. (Picked up by The Print.)

Read article – Features Mark Hiatt, sport psychology director and assistant professor of psychiatry, in an article about mental health initiatives for student-athletes. “We all meet weekly and do a lot of cross-programming and education with the students,” Hiatt said of the Dartmouth Peak Performance program. “I’m the liaison between athletics and the counseling center. We’ve got a wonderful team in the counseling center at the health service, where we work together and we all see athletes.” (Picked up by Seacoast Online.)

Read article – Quotes Elizabeth Talbot, professor of medicine, and Ann Bracken, an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics, in an article about the Dartmouth-hosted webinar on Monkeypox. “We have had practice with handling COVID in terms of the infrastructure on campus for managing students,” Bracken said.