Investigators at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine announced that two new studies of DAR-901, their investigational vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), have moved it to the forefront of new vaccines in development for global control of this deadly infectious disease.
O’Leary Receives MLK Social Justice Award
Shawn O’Leary, director of the Office for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement at Geisel, has received the Holly Fell Sateia Award, one of four Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards given this year as part of the Dartmouth community’s month-long celebration honoring the life and legacy of the civil rights leader.
Dartmouth Researchers Win Children’s Prize to Reduce Neonatal Mortality in Haiti
Geisel researchers Peter F. Wright and Alka Dev, who work with the Dartmouth-Haiti Partnership, were announced as winners of the Children’s Prize Foundation’s (CPF) 4th annual Children’s Prize.
Geisel’s James Geiling Receives Award for Distinguished Service During Dartmouth’s Veterans Day Celebration
James Geiling, MD, MPH’14, a professor of medicine at Geisel, has received the 2016 James Wright Award for Distinguished Service, which is given each year by the Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni to honor the ideals of service, college, and country.
Geisel to Host National Physicians for Human Rights Student Conference
A collection of evening activities on Friday, November 4, including a student poster session highlighting research on human rights and a reception, will kick-off the annual Physicians for Human Rights Student Conference being held at Geisel on November 5. The topic of this year’s conference is Violence against Difference.
An Update on the Zika Virus: Q&A with Dr. Elizabeth Talbot
Elizabeth Talbot, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Geisel, who specializes in infectious disease and international health at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and also serves as New Hampshire’s deputy state epidemiologist, shares the latest on what the scientific and medical communities are learning about Zika.
Geisel Medical Students Earn Public Health Award
Three rising third-year Geisel medical students have received a distinguished national public health award for their efforts over the past two years to improve both awareness of and access to health care for migrant farm workers in the Upper Valley.
Geisel Students Named 2016-2017 NH/VT Schweitzer Fellows
Ten first-year medical students at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have been selected as 2016-17 New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer Fellows by the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.
Helping Others Through Hockey: Geisel and UVM Play for the Specimen Cup
On Sunday, April 3, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the University of Vermont College of Medicine clashed in the annual Specimen Cup hockey game.
Geisel Schweitzer Fellows Working to Ease the Stigma Faced by LGBTQ Youth
New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer Fellows Ana Rodriguez-Villa ’18 and Brendin Beaulieu-Jones ’18 are working to address stigma and prejudice against LGBTQ youth in Vermont’s Upper Valley.