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Lynn E Fiellin, MD

Professor Adjunct
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Director, Yale Center for Health & Learning Games, Internal Medicine

Director, play2PREVENT Lab at Yale, Internal Medicine

Instructor, Investigative Medicine Program

Director, ForAGirl Program, Yale School of Medicine, Internal Medicine

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Professor Adjunct

Director, Yale Center for Health & Learning Games, Internal Medicine; Director, play2PREVENT Lab at Yale, Internal Medicine; Instructor, Investigative Medicine Program; Director, ForAGirl Program, Yale School of Medicine, Internal Medicine

Biography

Lynn E. Fiellin, M.D. is a Professor Adjunct, Yale University School of Medicine and a Professor, Biomedical Data Science, the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, and the Department of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. Her work focuses on developing and testing novel videogame interventions to promote health and reduce risk in youth and young adults. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health including NICHD, NIDA, and NIAAA, the CVS Health Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the NIH/FDA, and the BEST Foundation/Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. She and her team of researchers, game developers, and community partners have and currently are creating and evaluating interactive evidence-based games addressing a number of health-related and medical issues including HIV prevention and risk reduction, HIV testing and counseling, tobacco and marijuana smoking, e-cigarette use and vaping prevention, and most recently opioid misuse prevention in adolescents. She builds collaborations and partnerships between researchers, educators, commercial game developers, and community-based organizations with the goal of developing and rigorously testing innovative, effective, and targeted game interventions, tailored for specific populations and with the scientific data behind them to demonstrate that they work.

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Education & Training

MD
Yale University School of Medicine
BA
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Lynn E Fiellin's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

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