A team of researchers at Dartmouth Health and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine have received a $5 million award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to launch a new Learning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research (LHS E-STaR) Center.
Built on a long-standing partnership between Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Health in patient-centered outcomes research, the new Center will support a diverse group of scientists in their professional development to conduct patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research within the Dartmouth Health Learning Health System to improve health system operations, quality, and health outcomes.
The Dartmouth LHS E-STaR Center is led by Anna Tosteson, ScD, and Eugene Nelson, DSc, MPH, from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, and Tina Foster, MD, MPH, MS, from the Value Institute at Dartmouth Health. It is one of only 16 such Centers across the U.S.
“We are delighted to train the next generation of scientists with the resources this new Center provides. These scientists will work to meet the healthcare needs of northern New England communities with a focus on advancing rural health equity,” said Tosteson.
Over the course of the next five years, Dartmouth’s E-STaR Center will train nine scientists whose research will focus on evaluating innovations for providing timely access to high-quality, equitable, person-centered care to the communities Dartmouth Health serves.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.
About the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, founded in 1797, strives to improve the lives of the communities we serve through excellence in learning, discovery, and healing. The nation's fourth-oldest medical school, the Geisel School of Medicine has been home to many firsts in medical education, research and practice, including the discovery of the mechanism for how light resets biological clocks, creating the first multispecialty intensive care unit, the first comprehensive examination of U.S. health care cost variations (The Dartmouth Atlas), and the first Center for Health Care Delivery Science, which launched in 2010. As one of America's top medical schools, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine is committed to training new generations of physician leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in health care.