Department of Pediatrics
Department.of.Pediatrics@hitchcock.org
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756
Department of Pediatrics
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Pediatrics 2025
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Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS)
MacMillan presented at the PAS 2025 meeting, held from April 24 to 28, 2025, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
About Us
Believing that general pediatrics is foundational to providing comprehensive care in any setting, we foster:
• the ability to manage complexity
• the courage to tolerate uncertainty, and
• the moral clarity to engage in advocacy.
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Recent Publications
`This is our country and somehow, we have to make it work': a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study of the enablers of non-migration and return migration in a cohort of Nigerian medical doctors and dentists.
Ikhurionan P, Toyin-Thomas P, Orikpete EV, Odika P, Aria ON, et al.
Glob Health Action. 2026 Dec;19(1):2623345. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2026.2623345. Epub 2026 Mar 20.
PMID: 41858234
Optimizing protocols for microRNA profiling of infant and toddler stool.
Armstrong DA, Soucy SM, Muse ME, Kolling FW 4th, Trask HW, et al.
RNA Biol. 2026 Dec;23(1):1-15. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2026.2634198. Epub 2026 Mar 4.
PMID: 41715892
Pediatric Mental Health Integration and Perceived Quality of Care.
Green CM, Leslie LK, Leyenaar JK
Pediatrics. 2026 Oct 9; pii: e2025075834. doi: 10.1542/peds.2025-075834. Epub 2026 Oct 9.
PMID: 42849911
Community of Pediatric Education (COPE)
Neurology Grand Rounds
October 9, 2026Auditorium E
Topic: Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy: Stuck in the Past?
Speaker: Jared E. Quast, MD, Epileptologist, Assistant Residency Program Director, Neurology Department, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical CenterCTBH Seminar Series - Meeting Young People Where They Are: Developing, Evaluating, and Implementing Digital Interventions for Self-Injury - Kaylee Kruzan, PhD
October 9, 2026OCTOBER 9, 2026
Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, LCSW
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
About the Presentation: Most young people who self-injure never seek treatment, yet many turn to the internet for help. This talk presents an NIMH-funded research program designed to close this gap by developing and implementing digital interventions for adolescents and young adults who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). In partnership with Mental Health America, the nation’s largest mental health nonprofit, we co-designed these interventions for delivery on its website, which reaches millions of people each year. I will share lessons from our design and usability testing, results from a randomized controlled trial, and our development of an NSSI screener to connect visitors directly to care. The talk will close with future directions for delivering highly personalized interventions to this population through community-based organizations like MHA.
About the Presenter: Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, LCSW, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is core faculty in the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies (CBITs) and affiliate faculty in the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design. A digital mental health researcher with expertise in human-centered design, she develops, evaluates, and implements digital interventions for people who are underrepresented in traditional treatment, including young people who engage in self-harm. Her work is guided by a simple principle: meet people where they already are. That means implementing interventions through community-based organizations that people already trust, and in the online spaces where many young people who self-injure first look for information and support, often long before seeking formal care.
Dr. Kruzan completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in digital mental health at CBITs and holds a PhD in Communication from Cornell University, an MSW from The Ohio State University, and an MA in Communication from the University of Illinois Chicago.
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