GDN Online – Continued coverage of comments by Ethan Berke, associate professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on a recent study that found that a smartphone’s sensors could potentially identify whether the user might suffer from depression.
Archive for 2015
H. Gilbert Welch on the Nuances of Medical Care
This Focus on Faculty Q&A is part of an ongoing series of interviews exploring what keeps Dartmouth professors busy inside—and outside—the classroom.
AAMC Award for Geisel and CHaD Project to Improve Care of Opioid-Exposed Newborns
A team of Geisel faculty, students, and pediatric staff at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock received a Clinical Care Innovation Challenge Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges for creating a new model of care for in utero opioid-exposed and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome-affected newborns.
White River Veterans Affairs Medical’s Drs. Eric R. Henderson and Florian Schroeck Win Career Development Awards: 5 Things to Know
Becker’s ASC Review – Continued coverage on the career development awards given by the White River Junction VA Medical Center to Eric Henderson, assistant professor of orthopaedics, and Florian Schroeck, assistant professor of orthopaedics and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, both of whom are members of the White River Junction VA Outcomes Group. The article notes that these career development awards increase salaries, which allow winners to strengthen their careers as clinician-investigators.
E-cigarettes are Just as Addictive as the Real Thing and Most are Mislabeled, Researchers Warn
Daily Mail – Quotes James Sargent, professor of pediatrics, on a recent study which found that e-cigarettes could be luring teens into trying smoking and eventually lead to smoking regular cigarettes.
White River VA Medical Center Outcomes Physicians Receive Career Development Awards
VT Digger – The White River Junction VA Medical Center has awarded career development awards to Eric Henderson, assistant professor of orthopaedics, and Florian Schroeck, assistant professor of orthopaedics and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, both of whom are members of the White River Junction VA Outcomes Group.
Patients and Doctors Pushing Up the Cost of Care
The Dallas Morning News – Cites research from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care in an article discussing the costs of health care in Texas hospitals. The research showed that in 2012, Medicare users in the Dallas area spent an average of $11,511 each on health care, which was 19 percent above the national average.
A Failure to Measure Up: On Mental Health, Twin States Lag
Valley News – Quotes Robert Drake, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on the state of New Hampshire’s mental health services, and how although the state had emerged during the 1980s as a national leader in strengthening community mental health care organizations and services, the system eventually deteriorated due to budget cutting and an increasingly hostile political environment.
At the Hospitals: VA Names Mental Health Chief
Valley News – Quotes Brett Rusch, assistant professor of psychiatry, on his recent appointment at the White River Junction VA Medical Center as chief of mental health and behavioral science service. “I look forward to the challenge and to fulfill the calling to extend high-quality, veteran-centered mental health services to veterans throughout Vermont and New Hampshire,” says Rusch.
When Screening Is Bad for a Woman’s Health
Los Angeles Times – An opinion piece by H. Glibert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on the limited benefits of screening for breast cancer, and how doctors should be doing fewer screening mammograms, not more.