About Us

We have over 15 years of experience developing, evaluating, and implementing XR and game-based interventions and clinical applications with youth

XRPeds, within the department of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine, focuses on the use of extended reality (virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) and game technology in applications, interventions, and research with the goal of improving lives and reducing disparities among youth and their families. Our mission is to provide effective and safe XR applications for youth, with a particular focus on those at risk for experiencing health disparities associated with race/ethnicity, age, gender, sexual identity, socioeconomic status, and disability.

Meet Our Team:

Lab Members

Skylar Bartush

Postgraduate Associate
Michael Gancz

Research Associate
Shu Wei, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Collaborators

Amanda Garbatini, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Adolescent/Young Adult Cancer Program Coordinator

Clinical Therapist

VR Support Group Facilitator
Andrew Schartmann, PhD

Audio Director

Composer and music theorist focused on videogame music, New England Conservatory of Music
Anthony Longhini, MD, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine
Claudia-Santi F. Fernandes, Ed.D., LPC, MCHES, NCC

Assistant Professor (General Medicine)

Deputy Director of Mental Health & Well-Being

General Internal Medicine
Deepa Camenga
Deepa Camenga, MD, MHS, FAAP

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Associate Director of Pediatric Programs, Yale Program in Addiction Medicine
Frank Buono, PhD

Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine
Ijeoma Opara, PhD

Assistant Professor of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale

Director of the SASH Lab at Yale
Kammarauche Aneni, MBBS, MHS

Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry
Marc Auerbach, MD, FAAP, MSc

Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and of Emergency Medicine

CT Center Director- EMSC EIIC, Pediatrics; Director, Pediatric Simulation, Yale Center for Medical Simulation

Nicolas Meade, PsyD

Assistant Professor, Yale University
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Randall Rode

Advisor
Thomas Murray, MD, PhD

Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Disease
Vidya Puthenpura, MD

Clinical Fellow Yale school of Medicine
Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu, MD, MPH, IOC Dip. Sp. Med

Associate Professor (Adjunct), Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health

Director, Sports Equity Lab at Yale
Erin J.K. Truesdell, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Student Collaborators

Abigail Crocker, BA, RN

MSN Candidate, Yale School of Nursing
Madeline Gupta
Sofia Hahn

MSN Candidate, Yale School of Nursing
Chris Shia

BA Computing and the Arts, Yale College
Johannes Sieberer, M.Sc. Eng.

PhD Candidate, Yale University

Alumni

Adwoa Difie Antwi
Brandon Sands
Joshua Rigsby
Mariana Budge, MD
Jenny Meyer

Postgraduate Associate
Nazar Chowdhury

MD Candidate, Yale School of Medicine
Sydney Hussett-Richardson

MPH Candidate, Yale University
Kanu Priya Singh, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate
Mona Sinha

Postgraduate Associate
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