‘The Power of Play: How One Doctor Turned to Video Games to Prevent Health Issues’ (Dartmouth Health & Geisel School of Medicine Giving – July 8, 2024 – Full Article)
Article Excerpt: “There are enormous opportunities for learning through play,” says (Lynn) Fiellin, a professor in the departments of biomedical data science, medicine, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. “It has the benefit of allowing kids to experiment, explore, test—you can’t necessarily test things in real life. So, play creates this environment for exploration and testing.”
Fiellin founded the play2PREVENT Lab when she was a faculty member at the Yale School of Medicine. Fiellin and the laboratory moved to Dartmouth in late 2023, with plans to expand her work, in affiliation and collaboration with the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) at Dartmouth.
Fiellin’s lab has had a decade long relationship with CTBH. “I’m thrilled to now be a part of the center, given the extensive opportunities for collaboration and partnerships with faculty who focus their work on technology and behavioral health as well as the larger Dartmouth community,” she says of officially joining Dartmouth and the center.