Margaret Karagas, PhD, has been appointed to the James W. Squires Professorship at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. This prestigious professorship supports a faculty member pursuing academic activities that advance health, health promotion, and innovative and cost-effective health-care delivery.
LiveScience – Quotes James Bernat, the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience, on the term “clinical death.” “You’re dead when a doctor says you’re dead,” says Bernat.
President Phil Hanlon ’77 announced today that Dean Wiley “Chip” Souba would not seek reappointment to a second four-year term as dean of the Geisel School of Medicine.
Just after finishing her first-year exams, medical student Peace Eneh headed to Nigeria to begin work on a global health project. She reflects on the mix of excitement and nervousness she feels as she takes on the challenge.
Keene Sentinel/Valley News – Researchers from Keene State University are teaming up with researchers from Geisel to test a new iPad app designed to help people with autism “see and match how emotions are conveyed in speech,” the Valley News reports. Associate Professor of Psychiatry Robert Roth, one of the Geisel researchers involved in the testing, is quoted in the story.
Mark A. Israel, MD, director of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), has been named the inaugural holder of the Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
The Daily Beast – This story on Netflix series Orange Is the New Black’s portrayal of an inmate with Alzheimer’s quotes Ira Byock, who says “People who are severely debilitated or are in the midst of dying are usually no longer a threat to society, and there is not a compelling social advantage to keeping them in prison.”
“Be bold,” Dean Chip Souba told the members of the Geisel Class of 2014 at last weekend’s Class Day Ceremony. “Be aspirational. Reach for the stars. You won’t regret it. You’re a Geisel School of Medicine graduate.” Read the full text of the speeches from Class Day.
NPR – A new Dartmouth study has found that doctors are more concerned with discussing a contraceptive method’s effectiveness at preventing pregnancy, but women are typically more concerned with a contraceptive method’s safety and its side effects. The study was led by Kyla Donnelly, a researcher at TDI, who was interviewed for the story.
The Wall Street Journal – In this piece for the Journal’s “The Experts” panel, H. Gilbert Welch says a big misconception about doctors is that they know more about a patient’s health than the patient does. “It’s simply not true,” he writes.
This page may link to PDF files. Use this link to download Adobe Reader if needed.