A Dartmouth-led research group, including investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), has received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to compare the impact of sharing visit recordings to care as usual in older adults with diabetes.
Geisel School of Medicine medical students Faraz Farhadi ’24 and Harun Sugito ’23, along with Professor of Radiology Petra Lewis, MBBS, and Sidak Pannu, MD, have received a Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) Education Project Award to support DartRad.
Dartmouth orthopaedic surgeon Vincent Pellegrini, Jr. MED’79, FAOA receives Distinguished Clinician Educator Award.
A Dartmouth-led research group, including investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Texas Medical Branch and Harvard Medical School, has received a $7 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to compare the effectiveness of sharing clinic visit information via a patient portal versus an audio recording with older adults and caregivers.
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.
Reflecting the strength of his interdisciplinary training, Ze Zhang, a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS) and the Department of Epidemiology at Geisel, recently earned second prize for Outstanding Graduate Research in Computational Science in the Neukom Institute’s 2022 Research Awards.
Thirty-five Dartmouth teams have participated in the accelerator over the past two years. Their research could save and prolong patients’ lives, and may even cure cancer.
Findings from a new study published in PLOS ONE, led by investigators at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Muhimibili University of Health and Allied Sciences, show high rates of new tuberculosis (TB) infection among adolescents in Tanzania—highlighting the importance of developing TB control measures for this high-risk age group.
Geisel second-year MD student Armin Tavakkoli has been awarded a 2022 AOA Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship, which will support his research project to evaluate the therapeutic potential of FLASH radiation therapy in treatment of certain types of brain tumors.
Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, a professor of medicine and community and family medicine, and co-director of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, discusses the controversy surrounding the FDA’s approval of Aducanumab—a new drug to treat mild Alzheimer disease.
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