Internationally recognized pathologist and physician-scientist Jennifer Hunt, MD, MEd, has been named the next dean of the Geisel School of Medicine, Provost Santiago Schnell and President Sian Leah Beilock announced today. She begins the role on Aug. 1.
Dartmouth Cancer Center (DCC) has appointed Roy Herbst as the center’s sixth director. Herbst will lead integrated efforts to help strengthen cancer research, education, and collaboration across Dartmouth and Dartmouth Health. Interim DCC Director Konstantin Dragnev was also recognized for his dedicated and thoughtful leadership during the transition.
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine has been awarded a 5-year, $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a center of excellence and multidisciplinary research program for implementation science—an emerging discipline in biomedical research that focuses on effectively moving scientific evidence into healthcare policy and practice. Jeremiah Brown, PhD will service as the principal investigator of the COBRE grant.
John T. Mullen, MD, FACS, has been named the new William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor in Surgery. Mullen, professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at Geisel and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), brings a distinguished record of clinical excellence, research, and leadership to this five-year term professorship.
Dartmouth Cancer Center was recently re-designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). A division of the National Institutes of Health, NCI bestows the Comprehensive Cancer Center designation to less than 60 of the 3,500 cancer centers nationwide.
The Radiation Oncology section within the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been elevated to full department status.
Geisel School of Medicine Dean Duane A. Compton, PhD, has appointed Susan B. Roberts, PhD, as the medical school’s Senior Associate Dean of Foundational Research. Roberts is an internationally known nutrition and behavioral change scientist with more than 30 years of experience developing innovative research programs to advance health in the U.S. and abroad.
Despite professional guidelines recommending early serious illness conversations for all patients with advanced cancer, many times these conversations occur, late or not at all. A collaborative research initiative at Dartmouth Cancer Center shows promise in improving patient–clinician communication by increasing the conduct and documentation of these important conversations in two medical oncology clinics.
Researchers in the laboratory of Mary Jo Turk, PhD, Co-Director of the Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program at Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center have spent the past year studying immunity to metastatic cancer within lymph nodes.
Erika T. Brown, PhD, has been appointed Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Geisel School of Medicine. Brown, who comes to Dartmouth from the Morehouse School of Medicine, is a nationally recognized expert with nearly 10 years of experience in faculty affairs and professional development and 20 years in academic medicine.
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