Read article – Marcus Shaker, a professor of pediatrics and medicine, is featured in an article about over-the-counter medication for asthma. “Using as-needed budesonide-formoterol led to outcomes that are almost as good as taking a maintenance budesonide dose every day,” Shaker said.
Articles by: Geisel Communications
Inside the Emergency Room on the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Literary Hub
Read article – Features an excerpt from Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon Nahvi, a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine. “Like so many things in our lives, there was no playbook and no perfect solution. We existed, as we often do, within a series of impossible circumstances,” Nahvi wrote.
Dartmouth Vaccine Technology Helped Save Millions
Technology developed by a team of scientists at Dartmouth, including faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students, that contributed to the development of COVID-19 vaccines will allow Dartmouth to make major investments into advancing its research and education enterprise.
After Long Delay, Moderna Pays N.I.H. for Covid Vaccine Technique – The New York Times
Read article – Quotes President Philip J. Hanlon ’77; Jason McLellan, a former assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine; and Kim Rosenfield, director of tech transfer, in a feature story about the finalization of terms between the National Institutes of Health and Moderna to pay for the rights to technology that made many of the COVID-19 vaccines possible. A portion of the funds will benefit Dartmouth, where a team of scientists—led by McLellan—developed the means to modify the gene sequence that encodes the spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus, essentially locking the protein in place to enable vaccine antibodies to be more effective. “I think this gives you a model for partnerships where the basic, curiosity-based research did happen on a campus, and led to eventually creating a product which saved millions of lives,” President Hanlon said.
110 Hospital and Health System Chief Medical Officers to Know – Becker’s Hospital Review
Read article – Jonathan Huntington, an assistant professor of medicine, is included in Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of 110 hospital and health system chief medical officers to know in 2023. The executives featured on this list play a crucial role in directing their organization’s forward momentum while continuing to serve their patients and communities.
‘We All Have to Do This Work’: Paul Farmer’s Greatest Legacy Is the People He Left Behind – WBUR
Read article – Comments by Brian Remillard, an associate professor of medicine, are included in an article reflecting on the life and career of pioneering global health physician Paul Farmer a year after his death. “Paul had exceptional talents, but the thing that you sensed around him was his commitment. He committed in a way that few people can,” said Remillard.
An ER Doc Reflects on Life, Death and Uncertainty in the Early Days of COVID-19 (Audio) – NPR
Listen now – As a guest on Fresh Air, Farzon Nahvi, a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine, discusses his new book Code Gray and improvising treatments during the first few months of the pandemic as an emergency room physician in Manhattan. (Picked up by NHPR and many more.)
40 Under Forty: Corneliu N. Stanciu, MD, CPE, MRO, FAPA, FASAM – New Hampshire Union Leader
Read article – Corneliu N. Stanciu, an assistant professor of psychiatry, is included in New Hampshire Union Leader’s 2022 list of 40 Under Forty, which celebrates movers and shakers making a difference across the Granite State.
The Scientific Case Against Gas Stoves – National Geographic
Read article – Laura Paulin, an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, is featured in an article about the risks of having a gas stove inside. “If you cook for an hour on a gas stove, with all your windows closed because it’s cold out, that might increase your 24-hour NO2 exposure by about 25 parts per billion,” Paulin said.
Lawmakers Stress Urgency of Health Care Worker Shortage – Healthcare Dive
Read article – Douglas Staiger, a professor of economics and of the Dartmouth Institute, is cited in an article about the shortage of healthcare workers. Staiger found in his research that most of the growth in employment of registered nurses exists outside of hospitals.