Read article – Features Nicholas Jacobson, an assistant professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, in an article about mental health chatbots. “If you talk to me a decade from now, I think most of the chatbots will be generative,” Jacobson said. “And that’s because the experience is more human-like.”

Read article – Jonathan Skinner, a professor of economics and of The Dartmouth Institute, is featured in an article about his co-authored research into the cost of healthcare in the U.S. “The most shocking finding in some ways was that spending is completely uncorrelated with mortality,” Skinner said. (Picked up by MSN.)

Read article – Quotes Duane Compton, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine, in a news brief announcing that Lisa McBride was named as the associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at Geisel. “I am delighted to welcome Dr. McBride,” said Compton. “She brings a depth of experience to our school, and I am excited to begin working with her to support our student programs.”

Read article – Features Paul Barr, an associate professor of biomedical data science and of The Dartmouth Institute, in an article about his research team that has received a five-year, $7 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The team will assess the effectiveness of visit information provided to older adult patients and caregivers on quality of life.

Read article – A study by researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine is featured in an article about COVID-19 vaccines and mask mandates in Los Angeles county. The study found that young children scored comparably on a test measuring nonverbal intelligence—whether or not they or the test administrators wore masks. The findings help to alleviate concerns that face masks may interfere with testing by hiding administrators’ facial expressions.

Read article – Features a study co-authored by Bradley V. Watts, an associate professor of psychiatry, into the association of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment with the risk of death by suicide. The study found no evidence that an ECT course decreased the risk of death by suicide.

Read article – Dartmouth features heavily in a brief timeline of Hanover’s history. First, Eleazar Wheelock began the process of opening Dartmouth College in 1769, then the Medical School was founded in 1797 as the fourth medical school in the country. The Green was finished in 1836, and finally, the College became a coed school in 1972.

Read article – An interview with TikTok’s Dr. Glaucomflecken—ophthalmologist Will Flanary, MED ’13. “I started doing the video format at the right time—especially with the pandemic, more people have been on online. It’s been a little bit surprising how popular the characters are it’s taken on a life of its own,” Flanary said.

Read article – Continued coverage of a co-authored study by Renee L. Pepin, an assistant professor of community and family medicine, in an article about loneliness interventions for the elderly. “The intervention holds promise for scalability in programs that already serve homebound older adults,” the authors wrote.

Read article – Quotes Renee L. Pepin, an assistant professor of community and family medicine, in an article featuring her co-authored study into improving social connectedness among the housebound elderly. “A next step for this line of research is absolutely to see, does it work the same way or similarly if we actually do employ people who work within these agencies to deliver this intervention?” Pepin said.