On October 29, nearly 200 members of the local, national, and international digital health community—including researchers, clinicians, healthcare administrators, payors, investors, experts from government and industry, and students and trainees—gathered for a daylong meeting at Dartmouth College to discuss the expanding field of digital therapeutics.
A new Dartmouth-led study, published in the journal BMC Public Health, shows that even small effects from environmental exposures to toxins like air pollution, PFAS (forever chemicals), and arsenic in well water can adversely affect the health of vulnerable groups like mothers and their babies.
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is launching a new online master’s degree program in Health Data Science. The new program—which will be offered by Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine in partnership with the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies—will go live in September of 2025.
Two teams of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Thayer School of Engineering, led by David Leib, PhD, and Margaret Ackerman, PhD, will be among the recipients of grant funding from the federal Advanced Research Program for Health (ARPA-H) to support innovations in pandemic preparedness and vaccine generation.
On Wednesday, September 18, Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health (DH) celebrated their first-ever Biomedical Research Day. The landmark event, held at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), was a celebration of the breadth and impact of the institution’s research enterprise and was marked by strong attendance with well over 260 faculty and trainees taking part.
Results from a new study led by researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Mount Desert Island (MDI) Biological Laboratory show that engaging schools and students in a citizen science program can help reduce arsenic exposure in private well water.
George O’Toole, PhD, The Elmer R. Pfefferkorn, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has received the 2025 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Award for Graduate Education.
Geisel’s new fully online 9-month MS in Implementation Science will give graduates the skills to identify and address gaps in moving evidence-based clinical practices into routine use in the real world.
In August, Daniel Lucey, MD, MPH, a clinical professor of medicine at Geisel and internationally known infectious disease specialist who has fought a number of epidemics over his 40-plus year career, provided an update on mpox to the Dartmouth community. In the following Q&A, he shares details about the epidemic and efforts to fight it.
Since joining Dartmouth in 2021, Charles Thomas, Jr., MD, has played a pivotal role in transforming the Radiation Oncology section into a full department, now serving as its founding chair. In this Q&A, Dr. Thomas reflects on his longstanding connection to Dartmouth, the dynamic changes within the field of radiation oncology, and outlines his vision for the department’s future.
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