Never in her wildest dreams did Yale University's Lynn Fiellin think at the start of her medical career that she'd end up working to create a new wave of interactive video games to help teenagers avoid HIV infections, drug abuse and smoking.
"I'm not a gamer at all," Fiellin said with a laugh in a recent interview. "But all our children were and still are."
The intense interest that Fiellin's kids showed toward video games proved to be a trigger for research that has resulted in a new Yale program called the "play2Prevent (p2p) Lab" that Fiellin directs.
Published: Monday, January 25, 2016
