{"id":11169,"date":"2019-01-30T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=11169"},"modified":"2019-01-30T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:29:59","slug":"a-pioneering-surgeons-journey-from-liberal-arts-to-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2019\/a-pioneering-surgeons-journey-from-liberal-arts-to-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pioneering Surgeon\u2019s Journey from Liberal Arts to Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FmlQTzR_JE0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Physician-researcher Andrea Hayes-Jordan D \u201987, MED \u201991, first explored medical research as an undergraduate at Dartmouth. Majoring in religion, Hayes-Jordan seized an opportunity to work in a leukemia lab at the medical school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I wanted to do research, but I wasn\u2019t sure,\u201d recalled Hayes-Jordan in a 2018 Geisel video interview. Fortunately for the hundreds of children she has cared for since, she discovered a love of research and medicine. In the 1990s, Hayes-Jordan became the first black female pediatric surgeon in the United States and later the first to successfully use heated chemotherapy to treat children with a rare, devastating cancer called desmoplastic round small cell tumor. Today, Hayes-Jordan is a professor and chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Training complete physicians like Hayes-Jordan\u2014physicians who are medically excellent, highly compassionate, and committed to improving care\u2014is a top priority for Geisel and a primary fundraising priority within its <a href=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Interaction<\/em> campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more articles about Hayes-Jordan in <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmed.dartmouth.edu\/fall17\/html\/alumni_album\/\"><em>Dartmouth Medicine<\/em> magazine<\/a> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthalumnimagazine.com\/articles\/lifesaver\">Dartmouth Alumni Magazine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgical pioneer Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD, D &#8217;87 MED &#8217;91, describes how majoring in religion while taking premed courses helped her grow her mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6,1,7],"tags":[17,894,460,847,895,320],"class_list":["post-11169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-multimedia","category-news","category-video","tag-alumni-2","tag-campaign","tag-dartmouth-undergraduate","tag-home-feature","tag-interaction","tag-research-2","author-13"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/NewsSite-hayes-jordan_andrea_vr1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-2U9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11177,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions\/11177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}