Concord Monitor – In this op-ed, Kevin Koo, a resident in urology at Geisel, says that the demand for health care providers is on the rise, yet, there is a lack of available residency positions for recently graduated medical students who are on the road to independently practicing as physicians.
Articles by: Geisel Communications
Lombard Medical Aorfix(TM) Highlighted at 2014 Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting
Wall Street Journal – Lombard Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVAR), a medical device company focused on Endovascular Aortic Repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), showcased its Aorfix(TM) Endovascular Stent Graft at the 2014 Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Annual Meeting in Boston, June 5-7. Mark Fillinger, M.D., Director, Vascular Surgery Training Programs, Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, will present “Clinical Experience Treating Highly Angulated AAAs On-Label Using the Aorfix Endovascular Stent Graft” at the SVS Vascular Live symposium today.
Rediscovering the Root of Medicine
Weakened by the crushing weight of burnout, first-year pediatrics resident and Geisel graduate Molly Taylor must find a way to get back to what drew her to medicine. In this essay, Taylor shares how swapping stories with a teenage patient brought light to a backbreaking day.
Medicare Advantage Billing Errors Cost Taxpayers Billions
NBCNews – Dr. David Wennberg, a Dartmouth Institute researcher who has studied the payment issue, said that with billions of tax dollars at stake federal officials need to hit the “reset button” on risk scoring. Wennberg said Medicare Advantage “is a very large program with lots of money flowing through it. There are always vested interests in protecting the status quo.”
BRCA Gene Can Be a Cancer Triple Whammy, Study Finds
TIME – An extensive story on a Geisel study that discovered that a version of the BRCA2 gene, which increases risks of breast and ovarian cancer, may increase the risk of lung cancer as well.
Former Medicare Chief Says the Upper Valley Can Be Health Care Model
Valley News – In a recent speech on health care reform, Don Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, touted the reform efforts of Dartmouth and its affiliates and encouraged the audience to embrace such efforts locally.
Should a Mental Illness Mean You Lose Your Kid?
ProPublica & The Daily Beast – Joanne Nicholson, professor of psychiatry at Geisel and at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC), is quoted extensively in this piece on whether it’s ethical for parents with mental illnesses to lose custody of their children.
O’Donnell Appointed to DeCamp McInerny Professorship
Joseph O’Donnell, MD, a professor of medicine and of psychiatry and the senior advising dean, has been appointed to the Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Professorship at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Geisel Gives Back – Vision Screening Program
Geisel medical students Andrew Siedlecki and Evelyn Bae talk about the student-created Vision Screening Program at the Good Neighbor Health Clinic.
More Ticks Means More Concern About Lyme Disease
NHPR – Elizabeth Talbot, an associate professor of medicine at Geisel, was a guest on NHPR’s The Exchange to discuss the rise of Lyme Disease cases.