Despite contending with the season’s first snowstorm, members of the local, national, and international digital health community made a strong showing at the Fourth Annual Digital Health Summit on December 3. The event, held at Dartmouth College, was hosted by Geisel School of Medicine’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH).
During November’s Medical Student Grand Rounds at DHMC, Geisel students shared their research involving a patient with a chronic Stanford Type B aortic dissection, metastatic pattern and inflammation-related biomarkers as potential predictors of long-term survival in metastatic PDAC, and global GI care in Rwanda.
Early in her career as a physician-researcher focused on improving outcomes for adults struggling with addiction and mental health issues, internist Lynn Fiellin, MD, kept hearing the same comment from her patients: “If only I knew then (as a teenager) what I know now, I’d have made different choices.”
Researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, in collaboration with investigators at the McGill University affiliated Douglas Research Center, Northwestern University, and Creare, LLC, have received a $6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the relationship between auditory function and Alzheimer’s disease.
The palpable weight of the day’s topic hung in the room when six former U.S. Surgeons General took the stage at Dartmouth on Monday in front of an audience of hundreds. The topic at hand? The global youth mental health crisis.
Geisel School of Medicine’s annual Medical Student Research Poster Night, held on October 22 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, highlighted the outstanding research efforts of the medical school’s second-year MD students—who shared their findings with faculty, staff, and peers in an engaging evening of scholarship and collaboration.
On September 24, more than 110 members of the Dartmouth and implementation science communities gathered for a meeting at Dartmouth College to discuss implementation science—an emerging discipline in biomedical research that focuses on effectively moving scientific evidence into routine practice.
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, MPH, MSc, as the Paul Batalden Chair for Clinical Improvement and Professional Development.
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.
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine has been awarded a 5-year, $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a center of excellence and multidisciplinary research program for implementation science—an emerging discipline in biomedical research that focuses on effectively moving scientific evidence into healthcare policy and practice. Jeremiah Brown, PhD will service as the principal investigator of the COBRE grant.
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