Archive for 2017

2017 Red Dress Award Honorees – Woman’s Day

Read article – Holly S. Andersen DC’85, a member of the Geisel School of Medicine Board of Overseers and director of education and outreach for the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at Presbyterian Hospital–Weill Cornell Medical Center, will be one of the many women honored at the Woman’s Day Red Dress Awards. Andersen is one of the country’s top advocates for women’s heart health, and a leading authority on preventive cardiology.

Ambrose Cheung, MD (left) with Stephen Costa (right), a third-year graduate student in his lab. (photo by Jon Gilbert Fox)

Ambrose Cheung Receives National Scholar-Innovator Award

Dartmouth researcher Ambrose Cheung, MD, has received a 2017 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award, one of only a few given annually to top physician-scientists in the U.S. The award will support Cheung’s promising research to develop a vaccine or drug to combat MRSA—virulent staph bacteria causing infections that are increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

Dartmouth Celebrates MLK With Justice Rally – Valley News

Read article – Quotes Ahmad Dbouk, Geisel ’19, about the keynote speech given by Tim Wise as part of Dartmouth College’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Dbouk said Wise’s speech gave him a complete historical context for how white-dominated culture has driven a wedge between blacks and whites. “He really drew a lot of lines to the dots that I kind of had,” said Dbouk.