Dr. Lynn E. Fiellin

Dr. Lynn Fiellin is a Professor of Biomedical Data Science, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and the Department of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. She is the Founding Director of the play2PREVENT Lab, an NIH-funded research program. Prior to Dartmouth, she was a Professor of Medicine, Child Study Center, and Public Health at Yale. Over the past 16 years, she and her team of behavioral and medical scientists, adolescent and community partners, and serious game developers have developed, evaluated and disseminated digital health games to adolescents nationally and globally. These videogame interventions are built by and for young people, engaging them in every step of the process so these games are truly their games. They target the most critical health issues for teens such as mental health, substance misuse, and sexual health and Dr. Fiellin and her team have demonstrated using the most rigorous scientific methods, the significant impact of their games. She has published over 25 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals describing the results of her research. She is currently expanding the focus of her work to include examining digital spaces for young people including social media as well as engaging parents/guardians and families in their digital health game interventions. She founded Playbl, a spin-out company from her Lab, and is the Chief Scientific Officer. Playbl holds the promise of getting these effective and engaging digital health tools into the hands of adolescents broadly.