Geisel Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar, PhD is one of three Dartmouth faculty being honored as 2018 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity.
Archive for 2017
E-Cigarettes Should Be Marketed as Smoking Cessation Products – The Hill
Read article – Cites a recent study conducted by researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, which found that young people who began vaping were between two to six times more likely than their non-vaping peers to have also started to smoke.
Marriage at Sixteen, or Younger – Garnet News
Read article – An opinion piece by Brenda Sirovich, associate professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which she discusses how every U.S. state allows children younger than 18 to marry, usually with parental consent, and how as a result many minors in the United States were legally subjected to serial sexual exploitation in the form of being permitted, or perhaps coerced, to marry.
Sandra Wong Named the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor in Surgery
Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS, chair of surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock, has been named the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor in Surgery.
Geisel Emeritus Professors Honored for Their Work in Kosovo
Action for Mothers and Children, a foundation dedicated to saving the lives of mothers and babies in Kosovo, recently presented inaugural Lifetime Contribution Awards to James C. Strickler, MD, and George A. Little, MD, FAAP, during a special ceremony held at the Yale Club of New York City.
Some Doctors Are Now Scaling Back on Low-Value Care to Save in Costs – Healthcare Finance
Read article – Cites a study conducted by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice that examined nearly 10,000 physicians who performed carotid revascularization—a surgical procedure used to reduce the risk of stroke by correcting narrowing in the carotid artery—and found a declining trend in the rate of carotid revascularization nationally from 2006 to 2013.
Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency: A Complication of Pancreatitis You Should Know About – Everyday Health
Read article – Quotes Timothy Gardner, associate professor of medicine, about a little-known complication of pancreatitis called exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, which can cause digestive problems. If you have pancreatitis, “the reason it’s important to get treated is that we really want to limit any damage that can cause problems like EPI,” says Gardner.
Astronaut Blood May Not Act Weird in Space After All – Space.com
Read article – Quotes Jay Buckey, professor of medicine and adjunct professor of engineering, about a new study that shows that astronauts might not be anemic at all while in space — instead, it’s a condition that develops when they land. The finding could mean more time safely spent in space, such as a mission to Mars or colonizing the moon would require. “The thing is, they’re going to have a little adaptation to go through to go from being weightless to being back in a gravity field again,” says Buckey, who was not involved in the study.
Better Delivery of Health Care at Grassroots Level Focus of Health Care Discussion – Patient Daily
Read article – Elliott Fisher, director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, recently spoke at a panel discussion organized by the American Enterprise Institute about how progress in establishing ACOs as they were meant to operate has been sluggish.
Are Bacteria Blooms in NH Lakes Linked to Lou Gehrig’s Disease? New Report Casts Doubt on That Idea – Concord Monitor
Read article – Features comments by Elijah Stommel, professor of neurology, in which he discusses a report issued earlier this month by the United States Geological Survey that casts doubt on assertions that blooms of cyanobacteria, often misleadingly called blue-green algae, are connected to certain neurological diseases, including ALS. “I agree with them that there is still some healthy skepticism in making correlations between cyanobacterial blooms and the potential for neuro-degeneration, but there’s a fair amount of evidence that there is an association,” says Stommel.