Valley News – Dr. Florian Schroeck, chief of urology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction and a member of Norris Cotton Cancer Center’s Cancer Control Research Program, has received the Conquer Cancer Foundation Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Archive for 2015
Geisel School of Medicine Event Honors Students and Master Educators
Thursday evening, May 28, during the annual State of the Medical School address, several faculty and students were cited for their contributions to medical education and community service.
15 Facts on Spinal Fusion for Low Back Pain
U.S. News & World Report – References data provided by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), which reported that spinal fusion surgeries of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and over increased 67 percent between 2001 and 2011.
D-H president honored as a ‘great American’
New Hampshire Business Review – Dr. James Weinstein, president and CEO of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system and professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, was among 90 recipients of the 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.
Could Better Tests Have Predicted the Rare Circumstances of the Germanwings Crash? Probably Not
The Conversation – In this opinion piece, Norman Paradis, professor of medicine at Geisel, discusses the Germanwings crash and the unlikelihood of discovering pilots at risk and taking steps to prevent similar events from ever occurring again.
Wesley A. Benbow, MBA, Named Executive Dean for Administration and Finance at Geisel
Wesley A. Benbow, MBA, has been named Executive Dean for Administration and Finance for the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. In this role, Mr. Benbow will be responsible for the management of all of Geisel’s administrative, financial, and non-academic affairs.
Obese Teenagers More Vulnerable to Food-Related Television Commercials
Gazette Review – A new study coming out of Dartmouth is showing that television food commercials are stimulating the brains of overweight teenagers more than any other group of people.
Study: Social Security Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought
Fox Business – Continued coverage on a Harvard-Dartmouth study coauthored by Samir Soneji, assistant professor of Geisel’s Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which suggests that the Social Security Administration’s predictions have been overly optimistic about the future of the program.
‘Slow Medicine’ Offers Alternative to Fast World
Healthline – This article discusses a book by Dennis McCullough, associate professor of community and family medicine, titled My Mother, Your Mother on the topic of caring for aging loved ones.
Dartmouth Ears Program: Learning to Listen
Students at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth are often seeking out ways to become involved in programs that allow them to customize their education and express creativity. Though the programs are not always directly connected to medicine, the overall goal is always to educate them on the best way to serve the communities they’ll be entering as physicians and scientists.