Geisel Faculty Still Waiting On the Details
Hanover — The presentations lacked detail, the questions were polite and the reassurances seemed heartfelt, if vague, as about 150 faculty and staff of Dartmouth College’s deficit-plagued Geisel School of Medicine gathered Monday to hear about restructuring plans. But a vein of uncertainty festered beneath the meeting’s surface civility. That was pointed out by questioners and acknowledged by leaders of Geisel and of...
Dartmouth, D-H Expected to Detail Geisel Restructuring
Hanover — Uncertainty continues regarding the restructuring plan that Dartmouth College is developing for its Geisel School of Medicine, where annual budget deficits had been headed toward $30 million. There is particular worry over the fates of the unspecified number of faculty and staff whose jobs will be eliminated . Some employees may be laid off. Others expect to be hired at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the medical system that is...
Despite Endowment, Challenges Abound
At first glance, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a medical system with net assets of $410 million at the end of last fiscal year, seems an unlikely cavalry to be riding to the financial rescue of a medical school whose parent — Dartmouth College, please don’t call it a university — finished the year with net assets of $5.33 billion. But such simple comparisons don’t provide especially useful benchmarks to outside observers as they watch the...
At the Hospitals: Oct. 11, 2015
Grant Will Help Geneticist Study How Behaviors May be Inherited Hanover — Giovanni Bosco, an associate professor of genetics at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The five-year Pioneer Award supports exceptional investigators pursuing bold, highly innovative research projects, Geisel said in a news release. Bosco’s project began with the question: Can...
At the Hospitals: Sept. 20, 2015
Geisel Receives $5 million Grant to Study Motivation and Behavior Change Hanover — The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine has received a $5 million Common Fund grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project they hope will lead to better health outcomes and decreased medical costs. The study will explore the psychological and biological underpinnings of motivation, “with an...
