At the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth annual Class Day ceremony on June 7th, faculty, staff, families, and students gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of 192 new graduates.
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Early Palliative Support Services Help Ease Burden for Caregivers
In a recent study, offering support services soon after a patient’s diagnosis reduced depression among caregivers.
Rediscovering the Root of Medicine
Weakened by the crushing weight of burnout, first-year pediatrics resident and Geisel graduate Molly Taylor must find a way to get back to what drew her to medicine. In this essay, Taylor shares how swapping stories with a teenage patient brought light to a backbreaking day.
Miguel Marin-Padilla: The Solitary Investigator
For nearly five decades, Geisel research Miguel Marin-Padilla has followed in the footsteps of Camillo Golgi by creating painstaking images that unravel the secrets of the brain.
First Survey of ACOs Reveals Surprising Level of Physician Leadership
In spite of early concerns that hospitals’ economic strengths would lead them to dominate the formation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a new study reveals the central role of physician leadership in the first wave of ACOs.
Mutation to BRCA2 Gene Can Double the Risk of Lung Cancer in Smokers
New research by an international group of scientists confirms a vulnerability to lung cancer can be inherited and implicates the BRCA2 gene as harboring one of the involved genetic mutations.
O’Donnell Appointed to DeCamp McInerny Professorship
Joseph O’Donnell, MD, a professor of medicine and of psychiatry and the senior advising dean, has been appointed to the Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Professorship at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Geisel Gives Back – Vision Screening Program
Geisel medical students Andrew Siedlecki and Evelyn Bae talk about the student-created Vision Screening Program at the Good Neighbor Health Clinic.
Cancer Center Appoints James Gorham to Lead Its Educational Efforts
James D. Gorham, MD, PhD, an associate professor of pathology and of microbiology and immunology, has been named the first associate director for education at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
Edward Horton (Class of ’55): 50 Years of Research—and Counting
“I keep telling my staff that I’m going to cut back on travel and stay at home more, that I’m going to take more time off and eventually retire,” says physician-scientist Edward Horton, a 1955 graduate of Dartmouth’s medical school. “They look at me like I’m crazy.”