Friday January 9, 2025

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Clinical Investigator, Dr. Meredith MacMartin, on receiving the K12 Career Development Award! 🎉

Friday October 24, 2025

Congratulations to our ASK Study team on completing their ASK Writing Sprint for Agenda-Setting Tool Development!!

Friday October 17, 2025

Our Annual Healthcare Experience (HEx) Lab Team Photo!

Thursday October 2, 2025

Congratulations to our medical student Maddy Spivak, on her first poster presentation! She did a wonderful job representing our scoping review team!

Thursday September 25, 2025

Congratulations to our ASK Study team on completing their ASK Toolkit Design Session Part 1! We are so proud of your hard work and accomplishments!

Tuesday May 27, 2025

Our SYNERGY Pilot Award proposal has been selected for funding! Congratulations to the entire HEx Lab team on this significant achievement.

Centering children and care partners in complex pediatric hospital stays: Developing an inpatient agenda-setting intervention for multidisciplinary family meetings

The ASKids! Study. Funded by a Dartmouth Synergy Clinical and Translational Science Institute SYNERGY Translational Pilot Award. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NCATS) UM1TR004772 2025-2026 $50,000, PI Saunders. MPI Reese.

Friday May 11, 2025

Congratulations to our very own HEx Lab student scholars Ishaan Kumar and Elodie Richard on graduating from Geisel School of Medicine MPH and MS programs class of 2025!

Friday May 11, 2025

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Nicholas Fuller on graduating from Geisel School of Medicine MD program class of 2025!

Tuesday May 8, 2025

Congratulation to Anji Zhu (HEx Lab Core member) , Gabriela Sanders (HEx Lab Student Scholar), Dartmouth Health Nephrology Team , and HEx Lab Team on presenting their abstracts at the Dartmouth Rural Health Symposium. We are so proud of you!

Friday April 4, 2025

Congratulations to our incredible HEx lab Core Team member, Anji Zhu, on receiving our monthly HEx Lab bee award. We’re very grateful for your enormous commitment and support.

Friday March 28, 2025

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Catherine H. Saunders, HEx Lab PI, on her presentation at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Department of Medicine Grand Rounds! Watch the video.

Tuesday February 25, 2025

Congratulations to our Healthcare Experience Lab ConsideRATE Team, on presenting their awesome poster at the Dartmouth Cancer Center Scientific Retreat. We are so proud of your hard work!

Monday February 24, 2025

Congratulations to our Healthcare Experience Lab Team on completing their writing sprint for grant applications!

Wednesday February 12, 2025

Congratulations to our Healthcare Experience Lab on officially launching the ASK Study! Best of luck with recruitment and interviews. A big thank you to our collaborator Joy for her constant support!

Thursday January 30, 2025

Congratulations to our very own HEx Lab PI, Katie Saunders, and HEx Lab Research Project Coordinator, Ailyn Sierpe, for attending the PCORI Science of Engagement event in Washington, D.C.!

Friday January 24, 2025

Congratulations to our incredible HEx lab collaborator, Shea Herlihy, on receiving our monthly HEx Lab bee award. We’re very grateful for your enormous commitment and support.

Friday January 17, 2025

We’re very excited and grateful for today’s HEx Lab PTA session led by our very own Ailyn Sierpe, MS (HEx Lab Research Project Coordinator) and Katie Saunders, PhD, MPH (HEx Lab PI)!

Friday January 10, 2025

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Team for hosting the first ConsideRATE Across the Continents event! We are deeply grateful to our collaborator from Australia, Dr. Claudia Virdun, for her contributions.

Friday December 20, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Recruitment Team on completing their writing sprint session for the consideRATE study at the Dartmouth Nephrology Clinic! We are so proud of your hard work and excited to see you publication.

Friday December 13, 2024

Our first Healthcare Experience Lab Party Edition was a wonderful success! It was an opportunity to come together, celebrate our achievements, and appreciate the incredible efforts of our team. We are very grateful for each team member’s hard work, dedication, and support that make our lab’s work possible. 

Friday December 13, 2024

Congratulations to our incredible HEx lab MD candidate, Nicholas Fuller, on receiving our monthly HEx Lab bee award. We’re very grateful for your enormous commitment and support.

Thursday December 5, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Team on completing their writing sprint session for the Dartmouth Jack Byrne Center for Palliative & Hospice Care study!

Friday November 22, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Team on completing our first Qualitative Research Training session this academic year for the ASK Study! Thank you Dr Saunders and HEx Lab Team for the awesome session!

Wednesday November 6, 2024

Please join us in giving a big applause to our very own Joe Nano, MPH, MS aka “SUPER NANO.” At our International Coproduction Collaboratory Meeting, Joe presented nearly 10 years of consideRATE research, including new and unpublished work. Joe did a great job with his talk, and we are SO PROUD of him!

Wednesday October 30, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Core Team on completing their design sprint for our upcoming agenda-setting studies!

Thursday October 24, 2024

Congratulations to our incredible research scientist, Ailyn Sierpe, and HEx Lab Team on their systematic review protocol publication! Read more.

Wednesday October 17, 2024

Congratulations to our Healthcare Experience Lab Recruitment Team on on approaching participant #300!

Thursday August 23, 2024

Congratulations to Dr Catherine H Saunders on her presentation at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Nephrology Ground Rounds!

Thursday August 15, 2024

Congratulations to our DocPath fellow, Anji Zhu, on starting her DocPath program at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine. We are excited to continue working with you!

Tuesday August 13, 2024

Congratulations to Dr Catherine H Saunders and Ailyn Sierpe on their PCORI award focused on Participatory Approach to Qualitative Research: Comparing Two Methods of Qualitative Engagement. Read more.

Tuesday August 6, 2024

Congratulations to Dr Catherine H Saunders and HEx Lab Team on receiving the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases K01 award!

Friday August 9, 2024

Congratulations to our incredible HEx Lab research assistant , Annika Milliman, on completing her HEx Lab recruitment training at the nephrology clinic!

Tuesday August 6, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Core Team , Ailyn Sierpe (HEx Lab research scientist) & Joe Nano (HEx Lab Research Coordinator), on their presentation at the Geisel “Getting to Know Geisel Research” event!

Friday July 26, 2024

Congratulations to our incredible HEx Lab undergraduate research assistant, Annika Milliman, on joining our HEx Lab Recruitment Team!

Friday June 7, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab TDI MPH/MS students on their graduation: Anji Zhu (MPH & recipient of Social Justice Awards), Ella Harper-Schiehl (MPH & recipient of Social Justice Awards), Rhea Sachdeva (MPH & recipient of Social Justice Awards), Shea Herlihy (MS & recipient of Social Justice Awards)!

Wednesday June 5, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Recruitment Team on approaching participant #200 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nephrology clinic!

Thursday May 20, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Geisel MPH students, Anji Zhu and Rhea Sachdeva, on their incredible Independent Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) poster session!

Saturday May 11, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Boyoung Ahn on graduating from Geisel School of Medicine MD program class of 2024!

Friday May 9, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Agenda-setting Observational Study Team on completing their manuscript that will soon be submitted for peer-review!

Wednesday April 24, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab MD student Bo Ahn on her presentation at the Geisel Grand Rounds!

Wednesday April 3, 2024

Congratulations to our HEx Lab Recruitment Team on approaching participant #100 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nephrology clinic!

Friday January 12, 2024

Dr Catherine H Saunders and colleagues had their first lab meeting in TDI Conference Room 511 and officially established the Healthcare Experience Lab (HEx Lab)!