While focusing on different populations as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars, Geisel alums Anita Arora and Carolyn Presley are both working toward the common goal of improving health care delivery.
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Dartmouth Institute Receives $2M PCORI Award to Study Use of Decision Aids in Breast Cancer Treatment
A research team at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice has received a $2 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to conduct a research project that is likely to change the way women and their doctors make decisions about breast cancer surgery.
Donald Macdonald MED ’80: The Eyes of the World
The founding of an eye hospital in Ghana is just the latest of Geisel alumnus Donald Macdonald’s efforts to improve lives of people around the world by restoring eyesight.
Nobel Laureate Thomas C. Südhof to Give Inaugural Munck-Pfefferkorn Prize Lecture
Thomas C. Südhof, MD, the Avram Goldstein Professor in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, will give the inaugural Munck-Pfefferkorn Prize Lecture on Sept. 9, 2016, at 10:00 AM in Auditorium H of the Williamson Translational Research Building.
The Dartmouth Institute’s Paul Barr Named Promising Early-Career Investigator
Paul Barr, MSc, PhD, an assistant professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, recently received the Patient and Family Engagement Early-Career Investigator Award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Alexandra Howell Receives Veterans Affairs Network Director’s ICARE Award
Alexandra Howell, PhD, a research biologist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, VT, and a professor at Geisel, has received the VISN 1 Network Director’s ICARE award from the VA New England Healthcare System.
Dartmouth Receives Renewal Grant for International Research Ethics Training
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine received a grant renewal from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health to support ongoing programs to develop research bioethics expertise throughout the east sub-Saharan Africa region.
Medicare ACOs Have Achieved Savings in Providing Care to Patients with Multiple Conditions
Until recently, little has been known about the effect of Medicare Accountable Care Organizations on overall spending, and whether they have been able to reduce the use of high-cost care settings. A new Dartmouth Institute study led by Carrie Colla finds that Medicare ACOs are making modest, yet increasing gains in these areas, particularly when it comes to treating patients with multiple conditions who are responsible for the greatest proportion of spending.
BMDS’s David Qian Receives Biomedical Research Award
Biomedical Data Science (BMDS) graduate student David Qian was awarded the prestigous John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research at the Dartmouth College’s Graduate Investiture Ceremony.
Deborah Hogan Receives National Mentorship Award
Deborah Hogan, PhD, an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Geisel, has received the 2016 Dr. Thomas Maciag COBRE Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health.