On October 12, faculty, staff, students, and alumni from across the Geisel School of Medicine as well as other key stakeholders gathered for a half-day retreat to kick off the school’s 2021 Strategic Planning Process, which is expected to run through February 2022. This comprehensive process, involving all missions of the school, will engage the Geisel community in developing a plan to guide our future investments for growth, determining the direction of the school for many years to come.
Latest News
Elisabeth B. Wilson, MD, Joins Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine as New Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine
Elisabeth B. Wilson, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd, has accepted the role as chair and professor of the Department of Community and Family Medicine for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH) system and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine.
Geisel Urban Health Scholars Explore Community Health in Boston
Geisel’s Urban Health Scholars Program recently visited the family medicine residency program at Lawrence General Hospital (LGH), a community hospital in Lawrence, MA, Boston Medical Center, and Boston Healthcare for the Homeless.
Medicine Grand Rounds October 15
Please mark your calendars for Friday, October 15th at 8:00 AM which will be the first in our Biomedical Grand Rounds series. The presenter is Kathryn J. Moore, PhD, the Jean and David Blechman Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at New York University School of Medicine.
$180 Million for a Healthy, Resilient, Equitable Future
More than 3,700 alumni, parents, and friends have answered Dartmouth’s ongoing Call to Lead campaign with gifts to the Geisel School of Medicine.
Hispanic Heritage Month Virtual Latinx Alumni Panel
Join us on October 7 for an interactive alumni panel moderated by Eric Quiñones MED ’04 with panelists Adrianna Bravo MED ’96, José Carrillo MED ’05, and Andres Jimenez MED ’04 as they share their experiences and unique paths in medicine
Freddie H. Fu D ’74, MED ’75, Innovative Orthopaedic Surgeon and Former Member of the Geisel School of Medicine Board of Advisors, Dies
Freddie H. Fu D ’74, MED ’75, founder and medical director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) Center for Sports Medicine, died Sept. 24.
American Thyroid Association Distinguished Lectureship Award Named to Honor Geisel Professor Emerita Valerie Anne Galton
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) has established the Valerie Anne Galton Distinguished Lectureship Award in recognition of Valerie Anne Galton, PhD, professor emerita of physiology and neurobiology at Geisel School of Medicine.
Graduate Student in Cancer Research is First at Dartmouth to Receive Prestigious NCI Award
Jichang Han, BS, is the first at Dartmouth to receive a Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Virtual Keynote Speaker: Improving Public Health Systems and Approaches for Communities of Color
Please join the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA), Geisel Student Government, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement (DICE), the Office of Alumni Relations, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), and Project Salud in celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month on September 22nd.









