Shawn O’Leary, director of the Office for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement at Geisel, has received the Holly Fell Sateia Award, one of four Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards given this year as part of the Dartmouth community’s month-long celebration honoring the life and legacy of the civil rights leader.
On Monday, January 30th at 5:30 PM, at Chilcott auditorium, please join the Dartmouth Native American Program and Beyond the Books at the Geisel School of Medicine for a screening and discussion of “Walking into the Unknown”, which traces the “intimate journey of a middle aged American Indian male through the health care system as he gains a deeper understanding of himself and the health risks he faces.”
Read article – Quotes Joseph C. Anderson, associate professor of medicine, about a recent study he led that found in patients undergoing colonoscopy, measuring adenoma bulk appears to be as good as a standard approach with histology for predicting the subsequent development of advanced metachronous neoplasia.
Honoring those fighting for social justice through education, politics, medicine, human rights, mentoring, and more. Thursday, January 26 at 4:30 PM, Filene Auditorium (Moore Hall).
Please join us at the Match Day ceremony for the Geisel School of Medicine Class of 2017 on Friday, March 17 in Auditoriums E/F at DHMC. The ceremony will start at 11:45 AM, with the distribution of the envelopes commencing promptly at noon.
Read article – Quotes Stephen Bartels, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, from an interview in the documentary “Alzheimer’s: Every Minute Counts,” which PBS broadcasts today. “We’re looking at a tsunami of Alzheimer’s disease in America,” says Bartels.
Read article – Cites a study conducted by John Fallon, instructor in surgery, where he found that in cases of severe patient-prosthesis mismatch in surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) patients, the 10-year adjusted overall survival rate was 35 percent compared to a 10-year adjusted overall survival of 46 percent among patients where there was no patient-prosthesis mismatch.
Read more – Ambrose Cheung, professor of microbiology and immunology, has received a 2017 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award from the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland. Cheung will receive up to $700,000 over the next two years to develop a compound to help in the fight against MRSA, a collection of commonly occurring staph bacteria that causes difficult-to-treat infections.
Read article – Quotes Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who is encouraging health care professionals to consider a unique approach to helping patients by establishing safe drug-use rooms inside of hospitals. Safe injection rooms in hospitals would not be his first option, but Lahey said it should be explored further—a view not shared by some New Hampshire health experts. “I think the evidence is clear that safe injection facilities improve outcomes in people with addiction, and do not have the harms that people imagine,” said Lahey. “I encourage these debates so that we can weigh the pros and cons.”
Read article At an inauguration panel discussion co-hosted by Dartmouth College and the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth faculty discussed the health policy intentions of the Trump administration and its promised repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
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