Read article – Features an excerpt from Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon Nahvi, a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine. “Like so many things in our lives, there was no playbook and no perfect solution. We existed, as we often do, within a series of impossible circumstances,” Nahvi wrote.

Read article – Quotes President Philip J. Hanlon ’77; Jason McLellan, a former assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine; and Kim Rosenfield, director of tech transfer, in a feature story about the finalization of terms between the National Institutes of Health and Moderna to pay for the rights to technology that made many of the COVID-19 vaccines possible. A portion of the funds will benefit Dartmouth, where a team of scientists—led by McLellan—developed the means to modify the gene sequence that encodes the spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus, essentially locking the protein in place to enable vaccine antibodies to be more effective. “I think this gives you a model for partnerships where the basic, curiosity-based research did happen on a campus, and led to eventually creating a product which saved millions of lives,” President Hanlon said.

Read article – Jonathan Huntington, an assistant professor of medicine, is included in Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of 110 hospital and health system chief medical officers to know in 2023. The executives featured on this list play a crucial role in directing their organization’s forward momentum while continuing to serve their patients and communities.

Read article – Comments by Brian Remillard, an associate professor of medicine, are included in an article reflecting on the life and career of pioneering global health physician Paul Farmer a year after his death. “Paul had exceptional talents, but the thing that you sensed around him was his commitment. He committed in a way that few people can,” said Remillard.

Listen now – As a guest on Fresh Air, Farzon Nahvi, a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine, discusses his new book Code Gray and improvising treatments during the first few months of the pandemic as an emergency room physician in Manhattan. (Picked up by NHPR and many more.)

Read article – Corneliu N. Stanciu, an assistant professor of psychiatry, is included in New Hampshire Union Leader’s 2022 list of 40 Under Forty, which celebrates movers and shakers making a difference across the Granite State.

Read article – Laura Paulin, an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, is featured in an article about the risks of having a gas stove inside. “If you cook for an hour on a gas stove, with all your windows closed because it’s cold out, that might increase your 24-hour NO2 exposure by about 25 parts per billion,” Paulin said.

Read article – Douglas Staiger, a professor of economics and of the Dartmouth Institute, is cited in an article about the shortage of healthcare workers. Staiger found in his research that most of the growth in employment of registered nurses exists outside of hospitals.

Read article – Steven Schlozman, an associate professor of psychiatry, is quoted in an analysis of school shootings over the last five years. “We have very good data that children in proximity to frightening circumstances, such as those that trigger school lockdowns, are at risk for lasting symptoms. These include everything from worsening academic and social progression to depression, anxiety, poor sleep, post-traumatic symptomatology, and substance abuse,” Schlozman said.

Read article – Megan Romano, an assistant professor of epidemiology, is quoted in an article about how to reduce exposure to forever chemicals. “Based on what we currently know, contamination in drinking water tends to be the most critical route of exposure for the majority of the general population,” Romano said. (Romano’s comments appear in the expandable question blocks.)