Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center received a $27.7 million, seven-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund projects that will speed the implementation of proven medical innovations as part of a national consortium of biomedical research centers.
Since joining Dartmouth in 2021, Charles Thomas, Jr., MD, has played a pivotal role in transforming the Radiation Oncology section into a full department, now serving as its founding chair. In this Q&A, Dr. Thomas reflects on his longstanding connection to Dartmouth, the dynamic changes within the field of radiation oncology, and outlines his vision for the department’s future.
Dartmouth recently earned national recognition as a Skin Smart Campus from the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention, thanks to the efforts of Jamie Karch, who earned her MD degree from Geisel in May, and many collaborators across Dartmouth and the broader Upper Valley community.
Results from a new Dartmouth-led study, involving collaborators at the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University and published in the journal PLOS Biology, are providing new insights into the therapeutic potential of bacteriophage (phage) therapy for treating diseases like cystic fibrosis (CF).
Findings from a new study, led by researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and published in Nature Immunology, have uncovered key functional differences in macrophages—a type of white blood cell that plays a pivotal role in the body’s innate (general) immune system as a first-line defender against pathogens.
Abigail (Abby) Konopasky, PhD, director of medical education research and scholarship and associate professor of medical education at Geisel School of Medicine, has received a Medical Education Scholarship Research and Evaluation grant from the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) to initiate a new project.
A Geisel-Thayer team at Dartmouth is investigating the individual and structural factors that promote resilience and allow medical students to flourish with the hope of finding ways to make medical school a less stressful experience.
Findings from a new study from researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Thayer School of Engineering and published in Cell Reports Medicine, offer new insights into how antibodies function in combating herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections. Their research may lead to possible new treatments for neonatal herpes.
Mariana Henry, a fourth-year medical student at Geisel, addresses in her Medical Student Grand Rounds presentation the pervasive stigma and bias towards diabetes patients, highlighting the detrimental impact on mental health and emphasizing the need for physicians to play a crucial role in dispelling misconceptions and fostering compassionate care.
A team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, led by co-principal investigators Karen Schifferdecker, PhD, MPH, and Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH, has received a $4 million grant from the National Institutes on Aging to address disparities in primary care across the U.S.
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