Now in its sixth year, the yearlong Swigart fellowship program gives medical students an opportunity to pursue scholarly research on clinical ethics issues that are important to them and relative to enhanced patient care and ethics education.
Articles by: Susan Green
Pioneering Geisel School of Medicine Cancer Researcher Michael B. Sporn Dies
Michael B. Sporn, MD, a visionary cancer researcher with an unorthodox approach to cancer treatment who was a professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology at Geisel School of Medicine, died on Sept. 29. He was 89.
Toward a Common Goal
Educators from Geisel’s professional degree programs gathered for an annual retreat focused on innovation in teaching and learning in the health professions.
Geisel Researcher Receives Prestigious National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award
Given annually to promising early-stage investigators pursuing highly innovative research, Assistant Professor Aaron McKenna receives the prestigious NIH New Innovator Award.
Geisel School of Medicine Class of 2026 Marks a Rite of Passage
On August 19, Geisel School of Medicine students in the MD Class of 2026 marked a rite of passage in the field of medicine when they received their short white coats, symbolic of their status as physicians in training, during the medical school’s annual White Coat ceremony.
Geisel Students Receive Grant Funding to Expand DartRad’s Educational Platform
Geisel School of Medicine medical students Faraz Farhadi ’24 and Harun Sugito ’23, along with Professor of Radiology Petra Lewis, MBBS, and Sidak Pannu, MD, have received a Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) Education Project Award to support DartRad.
Geisel School of Medicine Welcomes New Medical and Public Health Students
This week 92 first-year medical students at Geisel School of Medicine and 88 students in the medical school’s Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of Science (MS) hybrid and residential programs at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, spent time getting to know each other during separate orientation sessions before immersing themselves in their medical education.
Geisel School of Medicine Professor Receives American Orthopaedic Association Distinguished Educator Award
Dartmouth orthopaedic surgeon Vincent Pellegrini, Jr. MED’79, FAOA receives Distinguished Clinician Educator Award.
A Published Paper and a Research Grant Furthers Geisel Student’s Research Interests
Furthering his research interests, Geisel School of Medicine student Drew Bergman ’24 has a newly published paper in Nature and has received a research grant.
Quick, Easy, Delicious, and Nutritious—First-year Geisel Students Learn to Cook up Health
Geisel med students learn cooking skills that translate nutrition and lifestyle recommendation into sustainable daily habits.









