Dartmouth Medical School Board of Overseer Member

Susan G. Dentzer (DC '77)

Susan Dentzer was recently named the Editor in Chief of the journal Health Affairs. Prior to this new position, Susan Dentzer was the on-air correspondent with The NewsHour on PBS starting in 1998. Before joining The NewsHour, she was chief economic correspondent and economics columnist for U.S. News & World Report reporting extensively on the debate over reforming and partially "privatizing" Social Security and over such health policy issues as regulation of managed care. Before joining U.S. News, Ms. Dentzer was at Newsweek, as a senior writer covering business news until 1987. She has been an analyst or commentator on such television shows as ABC's Nightline, CNN's News Night with Aaron Brown and The McLaughlin Group.

A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College ('77), Ms. Dentzer is the immediate past chair of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. She also served as a trustee of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and a director of the Japan Society of New York. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University for the 1986-87 academic year, she studied health economics and other disciplines. She holds an honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio.

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