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White River Veterans Affairs Medical’s Drs. Eric R. Henderson and Florian Schroeck Win Career Development Awards: 5 Things to Know

Becker’s ASC Review – Continued coverage on the career development awards given by the White River Junction VA Medical Center to Eric Henderson, assistant professor of orthopaedics, and Florian Schroeck, assistant professor of orthopaedics and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, both of whom are members of the White River Junction VA Outcomes Group. The article notes that these career development awards increase salaries, which allow winners to strengthen their careers as clinician-investigators.

White River VA Medical Center Outcomes Physicians Receive Career Development Awards

VT Digger – The White River Junction VA Medical Center has awarded career development awards to Eric Henderson, assistant professor of orthopaedics, and Florian Schroeck, assistant professor of orthopaedics and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, both of whom are members of the White River Junction VA Outcomes Group.

A Failure to Measure Up: On Mental Health, Twin States Lag

Valley News Quotes Robert Drake, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on the state of New Hampshire’s mental health services, and how although the state had emerged during the 1980s as a national leader in strengthening community mental health care organizations and services, the system eventually deteriorated due to budget cutting and an increasingly hostile political environment.

At the Hospitals: VA Names Mental Health Chief

Valley News – Quotes Brett Rusch, assistant professor of psychiatry, on his recent appointment at the White River Junction VA Medical Center as chief of mental health and behavioral science service. “I look forward to the challenge and to fulfill the calling to extend high-quality, veteran-centered mental health services to veterans throughout Vermont and New Hampshire,” says Rusch.

Confusion Over Expanded Narcan Access Slows Roll-Out to N.H. First Responders

NHPR – This story quotes Seddon Savage, adjunct associate professor of anesthesiology and director of the Dartmouth Center on Addiction, Recovery and Education, on how doctors may be wary of prescribing Narcan because of the broad terms of a new law that allows prescriptions of the drug for anyone who says they or a friend or family member are at risk of an overdose.