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Physicians for Human Rights Regional Student Conference

Physicians for Human Rights Regional Student Conference

Please join us for Dartmouth’s 2018 Regional Physicians for Human Rights Conference, titled “The 50%: The Changing Arc of Women’s Rights”! The event will be held on Jan. 19th and 20th at Dartmouth’s Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center. Come join a discussion of the intersectional and reciprocal impacts of business, law, and socioeconomics on women’s rights.

Kathryn Kirkland, MD (MED'86). Photo by Mark Washburn

Walking the Shoreline: Erosion, Regrowth, and Professional Formation

In an essay for JAMA based on her speech at this year’s White Coat ceremony, Kathryn B. Kirkland, MD MED ’86, a professor of medicine and the Dorothy and John J. Byrne, Jr., Distinguished Chair in Palliative Medicine, uses the metaphor of the erosion of shorelines to guide medical students, residents, and physicians to understand the reshaping through the erosive forces inherent with the professional formation and changes of a medical career.

Team Up, Take Action: Partnering for Health Equity

Dartmouth-Hitchcock is partnering with the Vermont and New Hampshire Public Health Associations to present a thorough and thoughtful day-long conference to explore the many factors that either enable or interfere with addressing conditions leading to health inequity. The Team Up, Take Action Health Equity Conference/Schumann Lecture will be held on November 15, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, at the Hanover Inn, Hanover, NH.