Read article – A Q&A with Andrea Hayes-Jordan ’87, Geisel ’91, (now Andrea Hayes), who in 2004 became the first board-certified Black female pediatric surgeon in the U.S. She reflects on her career and her challenges as a Black woman, including what led her to become a pediatric surgeon. She was in medical school at Dartmouth College and during the first day of her fourth-year sub-internship at Stanford, she was “told that there was no more room for students on the general surgeon team,” which was where she wanted to be and had to choose either pediatric surgery or orthopedic surgery.

Read article – An article featuring Michael Calderwood, associate professor of medicine, that reviews the challenges and innovations associated with COVID-19 one year after the pandemic was formally announced. The article profiles the technologies, treatments, and vaccines that were developed, tested, and distributed in response to the public health challenge. “That’s what we really need to do to learn from this, to say public health is critical not just when an emergency comes along, but it is critical for our everyday lives, as well as our preparedness as we think about whatever is going to come down the pike in the years ahead,” Calderwood said. (Also in Yahoo! News)

Read article – A report quoting Tricia Goff, assistant professor of medicine, on the impact of COVID-19 on children. The article notes that children have been less affected than adults by the physical symptoms of COVID-19, but that pediatricians are concerned about the mental health aspect of the pandemic. “We’ve been really lucky in this pandemic that children, although being very much affected on a day-to-day basis with their routines, have not been affected from a morbidity and mortality standpoint,” said Groff.

Read article – Quotes Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics, in an article about the strong link between childhood fast food consumption and the likelihood of becoming overweight or obese and developing conditions including Type 2 diabetes. “Kids who start on the path of extra weight gain during this really important timeframe tend to carry it forward into adolescence and adulthood, and this sets them up for major health consequences as they get older,” said Emond. “We now know from our studies and others, that fast food, by itself, uniquely contributes to weight gain.”

Read article – A column by Cornel Stanciu, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Dave Praharaj, Geisel ’20, Tuck ’21, in which they discuss a new study that provides guidance to clinicians on how to treat pregnant patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Read article – An article about ophthalmologist Will Flanary, MED ’13, who is best known for his viral tweets and TikTok posts as “Dr Glaucomflecken.” The article features comments by Flanary and his wife Kristin Flanary, Guarini ’11, about his cancer diagnosis in 2013, and his use of humor to process his experiences.

Read article – A feature story about Andrea Hayes ’87, MED ’91, the chief of pediatric surgery at UNC Medical Center. Hayes became the country’s first Black female pediatric surgeon in 2002.

Read article – Quotes Corey A. Siegel, professor of medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about the impacts of ulcerative colitis. Siegel says that ulcerative colitis is an immune-mediated disease, in which “the immune system is turning against something in the body” to cause inflammation.

Read article – Quotes Timothy Fisher, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, in an article about the closure of hospital labor and delivery units in New Hampshire. Fisher and a team of researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock are studying the impact of these closures, using information from 250,000 birth certificates of babies born between 2000 and 2018. “Unfortunately, maternity services are often first on that chopping block,” said Fisher.

Read article – Quotes Barbara Jobst, chair and professor of neurology, in an article about the concerns that neurology patients have regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. Jobst says the main concern for her epilepsy patients is whether the vaccine will cause a seizure. “What could happen is if their temperature rises, fever could cause a seizure, but there are far more risks with getting COVID, including dying,” says Jobst.