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Current Priorities of the U.S. Surgeon General
Protecting Youth Mental Health
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The EdTech Awards 2022
A very big congratulations to all The EdTech Awards 2022 finalists and winners!
As events unfold on the world stage that seem to inch ever closer to a precipice unknown, we are reminded that the leaders and innovators of education technology have always worked on the edge. That from their perch on the cutting edge, they don’t look down, but rather look ahead. To where generations to come will work, play, and learn. To where education technology’s true legacy resides. It’s why they focus laser-like on the future, seeking to shape it well. They are moved not by bits, bytes, code, connections, hardware or software. Nor by the robots, the algorithms, the apps, or platforms. It’s not about the pedagogy or adaptive, personalized or customized learning; blended, hybrid or remote—these things are not what move them. More >
UCONN Center for mHealth and Social Media Conference
Development of a digital intervention targeting suicide prevention in adolescents who misuse opioids
UCONN Center for mHealth and Social Media Conference: “Development of a digital intervention targeting suicide prevention in adolescents who misuse opioids” Virtual, May 20, 2022.
Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Uche Aneni, MBBS, MHS: Promoting Prevention & Increasing Access through Digital Interventions
As a child and teenager in Ibadan, Nigeria, Uche Aneni, MBBS, MHS, thought her mother, a clinical psychologist, “got into her head too much.” But that frequent unsolicited analysis—along with her father’s career as a public health and community medicine physician and her older sister’s struggle with a neurodevelopmental disorder—ultimately inspired Aneni to become a child psychiatrist. More >
NIH HEAL Initiative Investigators Meeting
A digital intervention to prevent the initiation of opioid misuse in adolescents in SBHCs
NIH HEAL Initiative Investigators Meeting: “A digital intervention to prevent the initiation of opioid misuse in adolescents in SBHCs” Virtual, April 11, 2022.
TIME
What Euphoria Gets Right—and Wrong—About Teen Drug Use and Addiction
The show has sparked controversy over how it portrays teen drug use. In January, D.A.R.E.—the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program—criticized the show for “glorify[ing]” high school drug use and making it seem “common and widespread in today’s world.” But drug use is not uncommon among high school students today. In the U.S., about 1.6 million kids ages 12 to 17—6.3% of the adolescent population—had substance use disorder in 2020, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). “That’s a huge problem,” says Dr. Lynn Fiellin, professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and Child Study Center, who is trained in addiction medicine and behavioral health (and who is a fan of the show). The problem seems to be growing, too; in 2020, millions more kids tried drugs for the first time. “Euphoria depicts exactly what is going on,” she says. More >
NBC Connecticut
Meals4Healers Helps Physician Trainees Impacted by COVID-19 – NBC Connecticut
The ongoing strain the pandemic has had a significant impact on health care workers and it’s been made more difficult with many hospital employees testing positive for COVID over the last few weeks. A program called Meals4Healers is helping. Dr. Claudi-Santi Fernandes, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine, spoke with NBC about the program. More >
Annual HEAL Prevention Collaborative Meeting
PlaySMART intervention development: A digital intervention to prevent the initiation of opioid misuse in adolescents in School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs)
Annual HEAL Prevention Collaborative Meeting: “PlaySMART intervention development: A digital intervention to prevent the initiation of opioid misuse in adolescents in School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs)”, Virtual, November 10, 2021.
Annual HEAL Prevention Collaborative Meeting
A digital intervention to prevent the initiation of opioid misuse in adolescents in School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs)
Annual HEAL Prevention Collaborative Meeting: “A digital intervention to prevent the initiation of opioid misuse in adolescents in School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs)”, Virtual, November 8, 2021.
Technology in Psychiatry Online Summit
Identifying Digital Biomarkers for Adolescent Substance Use from In-game Data
Technology in Psychiatry Online Summit: “Identifying Digital Biomarkers for Adolescent Substance Use from In-game Data”. Video presentation, October 2021.