Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics / Southern Region Chief Medical Officer
Maria D. Padin, MD, was named Chief Medical Officer for Dartmouth Health's Southern Region/Community Group Practices (CGP) in March 2020. She oversees Dartmouth Health's strategy and care delivery in the New Hampshire's Southern region.
At Dartmouth Health
Dr. Padin's work includes integrating the clinical operations across the CGP, collaborating with leadership to coordinate specialty-specific services between the northern and southern regions of Dartmouth Health's service area, continuing to steward clinical relationships with community hospitals and providers in the service area. Dr. Padin leads facility development and expansion efforts in the southern region and is instrumental as Dartmouth Health invests in clinical programming, expanding breadth of services, building infrastructure and improving access to care.
Previous experience
Dr. Padin was named Chief Medical Officer of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in November 2015. In that role, she focused on clinical and physician-related responsibilities specific to the academic medical center. Dr. Padin led efforts in overseeing and coordinating, with the chief nursing officer, cross-disciplinary hospital functions, applying system policies related to physicians at the medical center; managing, with the chief quality officer, accreditation issues; and maintaining and updating professional staff bylaws/rules and regulations.
Dr. Padin joined Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic/Concord in 1997 in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she went on to serve as Department Chair and as a member of the Medical Executive Committee. She became the Medical Director for that clinic in 2010. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and her clinical interests include robotic surgery, minimally invasive gynecology and pelvic floor prolapse.
Education and certifications
Dr. Padin earned her medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School (now the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth), and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Maine Medical Center in Portland. She earned her undergraduate degree at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, where she worked advocacy for Maternal Child Health in Los Angeles and with the March of Dimes. She is a Graduate of the Carol Emmott Fellowship Program in 2017 and the Association of American Medical Colleges Chief Medical Officer Leadership Program.
Personal
Dr. Padin is a past member of the American Hospital Association Maternal Child Health Advisory Board. She is Co-Chair of the New Hampshire Endowment for Health Board and a member of the Vizient Medical Executive Advisory Committee. Padin is a former Treasurer/Secretary of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and former Vice Chair of the New Hampshire section of the organization.
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