Jay Buckey, a professor of medicine and director of the Space Medicine Innovations Laboratory at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, and section chief of Hyperbaric Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, was recently awarded the Albert R. Behnke Award by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS).
On Friday, June 12, Geisel School of Medicine celebrated the academic accomplishments of 159 MPH and MS Health Sciences Education graduates, including the first online master’s degree cohort in implementation science.
“Strong and thriving.” That was Interim Dean Steven Leach’s assessment of the Geisel School of Medicine during the annual State of the Medical School address on Wednesday, June 3, where he reflected on a year of transition and the deep connections he made with the Geisel community.
President Sian Leah Beilock has made the promotion of health and wellness a top priority for Dartmouth from the beginning of her tenure. In October 2023, Dartmouth launched Commitment to Care, a strategic plan to support student mental health.
Historically, medical students, residents, and physicians experience higher rates of stress—such as anxiety, depression, and related mental illness that affects quality of life, productivity, and patient care—but lower rates of seeking support.
Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine celebrated the MD Class of 2026 during the school’s Investiture ceremony on Saturday, May 9, when 94 medical students received their Doctor of Medicine.
Congratulations to our MD Class of ’26! It’s hard to believe that the 2026 MD Student & Faculty Awards and MD Investiture Ceremonies are just a few days away. Information about these events and links to live video coverage are included below.
Four Geisel School of Medicine students presented their research at April’s Medical Student Grand Rounds at DHMC. Their work spanned three projects: RNA-based biomarkers to guide tarlatamab therapy in small cell lung cancer; treatment exposures and disease severity among rural New England patients with a chronic inflammatory skin disorder; and a data analysis of how rural health systems have underutilized of the Northern New England 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Registry.
Dartmouth researchers have discovered that immune cells called macrophages play opposing roles in cancer, with some fighting tumors, while others help them grow. A study published in Nature Immunology points to a more precise approach to cancer treatment by selectively blocking the cells that suppress the body’s natural defenses, using a drug already approved by the FDA.
An active researcher and beloved professor at Geisel School of Medicine for more that 50 years, Gustav (Gus) Lienhard, PhD, died March 31. He joined the Department of Biochemistry in 1972 and throughout his life studied the fundamental question of how our cells take up glucose in response to insulin.
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