Read article – An article reporting that Elizabeth Cahill Lempres ’83, Thayer ’84, has been elected chair of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. Cahill Lempres will take leadership of the college’s board on June 14 from Laurel Richie ’81, who has been chair since 2017. The article mentions that Neal Katyal ’91, a former acting solicitor general of the United States; Joyce Sackey ’85, MED ’89, associate provost and chief diversity officer at Tufts University’s Health Sciences Schools and dean for multicultural affairs and global health at Tufts University School of Medicine; and Scott Stuart ’81, co-founder of Sageview Capital, will also be joining the board.

Read article – Quotes David Goodman, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about the government’s lack of oversight of neonatal intensive care units. There’s a “wall of silence that families and the public face with regard to the quality of care in NICUs,” said Goodman.

Read article – The Geisel School of Medicine was included in a list of the 43 medical schools with the highest MCAT scores in 2020.

Read article – Quotes Andrew Loehrer, assistant professor of surgery, in an article about a recent study that found patients who underwent gastrointestinal surgery for cancer at institutions on U.S. News & World Report‘s annual ranking of top hospitals were less likely to die from complications than patients treated at non-ranked hospitals. “This could potentially be very helpful for patients trying to decide where they might consider surgery. In that regard, it’s an important addition to the literature,” said Loehrer.

Read article – Features comments by David Goodman, professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about an analysis of state health data by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica which found that preterm babies at Lovelace Women’s Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, died at up to twice the rate as they did at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque. “The differences are meaningful,” Goodman said of the hospitals’ death rates. “They’re not slight differences. These are large differences.” (Similar coverage in an additional article published by ProPublica.)

Read article – Continued coverage about a recent study on the cardiovascular risks associated with a diet that relies heavily on ultra-processed foods, which mentions an accompanying editorial co-authored by Kathleen Allen, Geisel ’23. In the editorial, Allen and her co-author state that “the goal should be to make the unhealthy choice the hard choice and the healthy choice the easy choice.”

Read article – In an opinion piece, Norman Paradis, a professor of emergency medicine, explains why the lab leak out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the source of SARS-CoV-2 is not your typical conspiracy theory and that we shouldn’t dismiss it as a possibility. “All that said, it is still pretty likely that Covid-19 was a spillover event from nature, and we should be humbled that it didn’t kill nearly everyone…We need to separate ourselves from the natural reservoirs of novel infectious diseases to the greatest extent possible,” says Paradis.

Read article – Announces that Kevin Curtis, an associate professor of emergency medicine and the medical director of Connected Care and the Center for Telehealth at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, will serve as a guest on Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s Medical Matters Weekly on Wednesday. Curtis will discuss telemedicine before, during, and after the pandemic.

Read article – An article about a recent study on the benefits of curbing ultra-processed food intake mentions an accompanying editorial co-authored by Kathleen Allen, MED ’23, on how the study may help fill the void of evidence regarding the consumption of ultra-processed food and cardiovascular guidelines.

Read article – Quotes infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist, Antonia Altomare, an assistant professor of medicine, who served as a guest on a recent episode of The Cure podcast in which she discussed lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic the past year. “We have learned as an institution, and people have learned, how to care for patients in a very different way from what we’re used to. I think it’s that flexibility and trust in the system that really got us through.”