Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of JoAnna Leyenaar, MD, MPH, MSc, as the Paul Batalden Chair for Clinical Improvement and Professional Development.
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New Report Describes Rural Health Challenges and Action Steps
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine, together with partners at Dartmouth Health, have issued a new report that details the key insights and primary recommendations that emerged from the inaugural Rural Health Symposium.
Relationship Building Key to Addressing Oncologist Shortages in Rural Care, says New Dartmouth Research
Rural oncologists reported the loss of expertise and professional support as key impacts of the departure of “linchpin colleagues,” according to a new Dartmouth-led study published in the journal JCO Oncology Practice. The study, which shares insights about the effects of specialist scarcity in rural settings, is helping researchers understand what strategies may work best in addressing gaps in care.
National Collective of Funders Supports Rural Health Symposium
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Dartmouth Health received a $70,000 grant from the Collective to Strengthen Pathways for Health Research, an initiative of the Doris Duke Foundation, to support the inaugural Rural Health Symposium to be held May 8-9, 2025, at the Hanover Inn.
Dartmouth Health, Geisel School of Medicine Research Team Awarded $2.1M for First-Ever Trial of Ways to Involve Patients, the Public in Research Studies
A research team led by Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth has been approved for $2,108,902 in funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), to study patient and public involvement (PPI) in research. The study aims to compare two methods of PPI in studies of pediatric mental health, cancer screening, and serious illness and the end-of-life.
Yen Receives Prestigious Early-Career Paper Award
Renata Yen, PhD, MPH, a health services researcher at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has received an early-career publication award from the International Shared Decision Making Society.
Legendary Healthcare Researcher John E. Wennberg, Who Shaped Efforts to Reform the Nation’s Healthcare System, Dies at 89
John E. (Jack) Wennberg, MD, MPH, founder and director emeritus of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences Emeritus at the Geisel School of Medicine, and founding editor of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, died March 10, 2024. He was 89 years old.
Carrie Colla Named to Endowed Professorship in Health Care Delivery
Health economist Carrie Colla, PhD, highly respected for her research examining health system performance and the effectiveness of payment and delivery system reforms, has been named the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery.
JoAnna Leyenaar Elected to National Society Advancing Physician-Scientist Research
JoAnna K. Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH, MSc, a hospitalist at Dartmouth Health Children’s and professor of pediatrics and of health policy and clinical practice at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI).
Geisel Researchers Receive $4 Million Grant to Study Disparities in Primary 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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