Announcements

2019 TEDxDartmouth Conference on April 13

Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend TEDxDartmouth, a local independently organized TED conference in Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 13, 2019. In celebration of Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary, this year’s theme is “Living Bridges.” We have an amazing lineup of 12 speakers including Dartmouth faculty, alumni, and students, as well as  visiting guests. Join us for a fantastic opportunity to learn about local ideas worth spreading and the power of experiential learning. Open to the public and free for all attendees with Dartmouth affiliation. Click here for tickets. For more information, visit our website or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Science Pub on March 28 — The Opioid Crisis and the Science Of Addiction: From Bench To Bedside and Back

For the March Science Pub we bring together four eminent research-practitioners from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth to help us understand what addiction means, and how practitioners and researchers are working together with communities to address addiction behaviors. The event begins at 6pm on Thursday, March 28 at the Galway Room in the Lebanon Salt hill pub.

Anne Schuchat, MD, to Speak at Geisel’s Class Day Ceremony

Anne Schuchat, MD, to Speak at Geisel’s Class Day Ceremony

Anne Schuchat MED ’84, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a retired rear admiral from the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), will be the featured speaker at Geisel’s 2019 Class Day Ceremony, which will be held Saturday, June 1 at the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium.

SYNERGY Informatics Workshop on i2b2 March 22

Have you been wondering if there are enough eligible patients to support your study? Find out using Dartmouth i2b2—the patient cohort discovery tool! SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute will provide an overview of i2b2 this Friday, March 22 from 9:00 to 10:00 AM in Auditorium H at DHMC (includes a light breakfast).

Part of the SYNERGY Spring Research Informatics Workshop Series, the session will include a basic introduction, sample queries, and how to get an account. To register, go to: https://is.gd/Information_Request.
To see the full schedule of workshops, visit: https://synergy.dartmouth.edu/i2b2-redcap-workshops-spring-2019

Match Day 2019 Video

For medical students, the annual Match Day event is one of the most anticipated and exciting days of their medical education as they discover where they will start their residency training after graduation. Once again, we will be streaming live video of our Match Day event so that friends, family, and colleagues can join in the excitement. Visit dartgo.org/match2019 on Friday, March 15 at 11:45 AM, to watch live video of Geisel’s 2019 Match Day event. **UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who joined us live for Match Day 2019! If you missed this year’s event, you can still watch video from the event here. 

Health Care Quality Conference: Tools and Takeaways for Your Journey

Whether your team or organization is just beginning to implement quality improvement projects or you’ve been engaged in such work for years, the Health Care Quality Conference on May 4 at DHMC promises to offer tools and techniques that can be beneficial no matter where you are in your journey to improve quality. Continuing medical education credits are available. Dartmouth employees receive a discounted registration.

Spring Workshop Series by SYNERGY

This spring, SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute will be running a series of workshops at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (from March 22 through May 31) for two informatics tools: REDCap and i2b2. REDCap is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and data. Dartmouth i2b2, the patient cohort discovery tool, will allow you to answer questions like: Are there enough eligible patients to support my study? How many patients are taking a certain medication? For how long?