Last week two members of the Geisel School of Medicine community were honored at the Lone Pine Staff Recognition Awards ceremony for their outstanding contributions to Dartmouth.
Articles by: Timothy Dean
New Study Finds Substantial Racial Inequities in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Findings from a new national study, led by researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show an alarming disparity in the treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) among White, Black, and Hispanic patients.
Geisel Medical Student Receives Innovation Fellowship Award in Urology
Daniela Orozco Rendon, a rising fourth-year medical student at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has received the Boston Scientific Medical Student Innovation Fellowship Award through the Urology Care Foundation.
Antonia Coello Novello, MD, MPH, DrPH, to Speak at The Dartmouth Institute’s Class Day Ceremony
Antonia Coello Novello, MD, MPH, DrPH, the 14th Surgeon General of the United States, will be the featured speaker at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice’s 2023 Class Day Ceremony, which will be held on Friday, June 9 at Dartmouth’s Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center.
Addressing High Costs and Greed in Healthcare: Q & A with Dr. Elliott Fisher
In their recent paper published in Health Affairs Forefront, Dartmouth’s Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH, and colleague George Isham, MD, MS, discuss the problem of greed in healthcare and outline actions each of us could take to address the inequities in our current system and improve both care and costs for everyone.
Weighing the Potential Risks and Benefits of Multi-Cancer Early Detection Tests: Q & A with Dr. Glyn Elwyn
In the following Q & A, Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD, MSc, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses the controversy surrounding multi-cancer early detection tests (MCEDs), which may soon be widely available to consumers.
Geisel Professor Named to National Leadership Post
Marcus Shaker, MD, MSc, a professor of pediatrics and of medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, and an allergy and clinical immunology physician at Dartmouth Health and Dartmouth Health Children’s, has been named to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
Entire Dartmouth Atlas Now Accessible via National Library of Medicine
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice is pleased to announce that its Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care series is fully available on the National Library of Medicine’s NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Bookshelf.
Remsen Restoration Efforts Continue (UPDATED)
Steady progress continues to be made with recovery efforts and the reopening of floors in the Remsen Medical Sciences Building on the Geisel School of Medicine’s campus following a fire in one of its laboratories on the seventh floor.
Epidemiology in Action: Bringing the John Snow Pump to Geisel
Gifted by the Hybrid Master of Public Health (MPH) Class of 2019 to The Dartmouth Institute, the long-awaited replica of the John Snow Pump on the Geisel campus stands as an important symbol of the history of public health.