News Releases
![From left: Emily P. Zeitler, MD, MHS, FACC, FHR; Laurel J. Richie; Jason T. Garbarino, DNP, RN, GERO-BC, CNL; and Kathleen M. Fisher, MBA.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_447/public/2025-01/zeitler_richie_garbarino_fisher.jpg?itok=45RudivZ)
Four new Board Trustees elected to Dartmouth Health, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics
The newly elected trustees, all of whom were elected at the end-of-year 2024 meetings, began their terms this month.
![Gabriela M. Andujar Vazquez, MD](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_447/public/2025-01/andujar_web.jpg?itok=kzoCgUXI)
Gabriela M. Andujar Vazquez, MD, named Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center hospital epidemiologist
Andujar's position began January 20
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Shorter Days Got You Down? It Could Be Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Mental health providers from Cheshire Medical Center and Dartmouth Health reveal tips for living with SAD.
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Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center awarded “A” Hospital Safety Grade
Leapfrog assigns grades to general hospitals across the country based on over 30 performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and infections, as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent them.
![Timothy Gardner, MD](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_447/public/2024-10/MD-Gardner-T-2964-Web.jpg?itok=igm8GYPu)
Dartmouth Health and Geisel receives more than $14 Million estate gift to transform the future of digestive health
This bequest from the late Walter and Carole Young is one of the largest gifts in the history of New Hampshire’s only academic medical center.
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Dartmouth Health introduces state-of-the-art CT scanner at Nashua clinic
Siemens Somatom Pro.Pulse CT scanner not available at any other facility in eastern U.S.
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Just in time for allergy “peak week,” DHMC launches New England’s only pollen counting station
Samples collected to be used in research by National Allergy Bureau
![Sheila Ryan Barnett](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_447/public/2024-09/Sheila%20Barnett%20-%20News%20Release.png?itok=yaPq4Fss)
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth name Sheila Ryan Barnett, MD, anesthesiology department chair
Barnett most recently served as director of quality for community anesthesia for Harvard Faculty Medical Physicians at Beth Israel Lahey Health.
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DHMC recognized as one of America’s great hospitals by Becker’s Hospital Review
Other honorees this year include Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
![Rya Halter, Keith Paulsen, Kimberly Samkoe](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_447/public/2024-08/prostate-cancer-surgery-grant-1400x904.png?itok=OhPUvTpR)
Technology in Prostate Cancer Surgery Goes Further
A team of Dartmouth engineers and cancer researchers has received funding to develop surgical image guidance technology.