Lynn E Fiellin, MD
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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.
Education & Training
- MDYale University School of Medicine
- BAUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst
Departments & Organizations
- Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
- Center for Brain & Mind Health
- Child Study Center
- General Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Program in Addiction Medicine
- WHRY Pilot Project Program Investigators
- Women's Health Research at Yale
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Center for Health & Learning Games
- Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale Medicine
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-Drug use, Addiction, and HIV prevention Research Scholars (DAHRS)
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative