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Summer 2005
@Dartmouth Medical is a quarterly headline news service to enhance your connection with the endeavors and activities of the Dartmouth Medical Community, past, present and future.
| WHAT'S HAPPENING AT DMS |
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Ultrasound Images Transmitted Over the Phone Allow Radiologists to Diagnose Patients in Poorer Countries in Real Time |
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Annual Fund Records A Banner Year |
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2005 DMS Class Day |
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Dartmouth Team Excels at National Healthcare Competition |
| FROM THE DEAN |
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An important announcement regarding the Brown-Dartmouth program |
| HEADLINERS |
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was featured on ABC's "World News Tonight" for their innovative method of accountability with its patients |
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A video clip and transcript on a student-led project to enhance the health of developing countries is featured on the Voice of America's website |
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Norris Cotton Cancer Center Again Named to U.S. News and World Report Top 50 |
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Joanna Fanos, PhD, a DMS faculty member, is working towards establishing a Sibling Center at DHMC that focuses on the needs of siblings of sick children |
| DID YOU KNOW? |
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In Africa, the DARDAR program in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania is working to reduce morbidity and mortality from HIV-associated tuberculosis. Check out DARDAR's website here. |
| ALUMNI FOCUS |
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David Fett DMS '80: Leading by Example |
| BENCHMARKS |
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New Pediatrician Workforce Policy Addresses Growing Challenges in Health Care |
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Dartmouth Study Reveals Flaws in 3rd World HIV Patient Screening for TB |
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New Advances May Slow Tumor Growth in Pancreatic Cancer |
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American Indians and Alaska Native Veterans Have Higher Mortality Rate After Surgery than Caucasians, |
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Researchers Identify Enzymatic Activity of Neurological Disease Gene |
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Celebrity Endorsements of Cancer Screening May Unduly Influence Public |
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Molecular Models Advance the Fight Against Malaria |
| All recent articles in the Dartmouth medical community |
| TRANSFORMING MEDICINE |
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Read the official announcement of the campaign launch, which includes photos and a link to the Transforming Medicine Campaign website |
| VOLUNTEERS ON THE RISE |
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Freddie Fu, DC '74, DMS '75, Joins DMS Board of Overseers |
| A list of all the members of the DMS Board of Overseers |
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A newly updated website featuring members of the alumni council, committees and class agents as well as contacts so you can get involved |
| KUDOS |
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Pew Charitable Trusts Name DMS Researcher as Biomedical Scholar |
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Professor of Genetics Wins 2005 Rosenstiel Award for microRNA Discovery |
| MARK YOUR CALENDAR |
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Fall reunions for the DMS Classes of '55, '60, '65, '70, '75, '80, '85, '90, '95, and '00
Sept. 23-25, 2005 |
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Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2005 DMS gatherings for the reuning DC Classes of '35 and '40 |
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Conference: Advanced Technologies in the Neurosciences, Translational Research, Health Policy
October 18-20, 2005 in Cambridge Massachusetts
Co-sponsored by DMS, Harvard, and MIT |
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