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William Boyle, Pioneer in Pediatric Care, Named Pediatrician of the Year

HANOVER, NH - William E. Boyle, Jr., MD, professor of pediatrics and of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School was recently honored with the 2003 Pediatrician of the Year award presented by the New Hampshire Pediatric Society.

Since 1970, Boyle has been practicing his brand of family-centered, community-centered care at the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD). As both a general pediatrician and a subspecialist in long-term and chronic illnesses-like cancer, diabetes, and cystic fibrosis-he has seen a spectrum of conditions far beyond those of the average pediatric practice.

In July of 1997, Boyle began a community pediatrics program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center which teaches doctors in training about community care and the need for child advocacy. The William E. Boyle, Jr., MD, Community Pediatrics Program helps young doctors connect on a compassionate level with children and their family. Families of sick children often suffer devastating emotional, financial, and sociological difficulties that arise during � and long after � treatment of a serious illness. The Boyle Program advocates a more comprehensive approach to care � an approach in which pediatricians look beyond the disease and see the whole child.

Boyle is a 1959 graduate of Dartmouth College and a 1963 graduate of Tufts Medical School. He returned to intern at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital from 1963-1964 and subsequently went to Children's Hospital in Boston as a pediatric resident from 1964-1966 and a fellow from 1969-1970, sandwiched around military service, after which he returned to the Upper Valley to stay.

The New Hampshire Pediatric Society is the state chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Consisting of over 180 dedicated physicians from across the state, members serve on a host of local and state committees to promote health and health education for young people of all ages.

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