A Dartmouth Health Children’s hospitalist has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI). JoAnna K. Leyenaar, MD, PhD, MPH, MSc, is among only 100 new members for 2024 from other elite academic medical centers and research institutes like the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Duke and Harvard.
Leyenaar has been with Dartmouth Health Children’s since 2016. She holds professorships at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine in pediatrics and in health policy and clinical practice. Leyenaar attended medical school at the McMaster University School of Medicine in Ontario, Canada.
Leyenaar’s work focuses on improving the quality of healthcare provided to children, particularly those who are vulnerable and underserved. Her main areas of research interest include: care coordination for children with chronic illnesses; urban-rural disparities in healthcare quality; hospital-to-home transitions; integration of mental and behavioral healthcare in pediatrics; and care of opioid-exposed infants. Leyenaar currently receives research funding from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Her research has been cited by major media outlets, including The New York Times.
Leyenaar will be officially inducted into the Society at the ASCI Dinner and New Member Induction Ceremony on April 5 in Chicago, during ASCI’s annual joint meeting with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Physician Scientists Association.
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Dartmouth Health Children’s is the most comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region and the first integrative medicine children’s health system in the country. Dartmouth Health Children’s is fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored in Lebanon, NH, by Dartmouth Health’s Golisano Children’s Hospital (also a member of the nationwide Golisano Children’s Alliance): home of the highest acuity neonatal intensive care unit and only pediatric intensive care unit in New Hampshire, along with the only adolescent medical-psychiatry unit in northern New England. Through a unique partnership with the state of New Hampshire at Hampstead Hospital, Dartmouth Health Children’s also provides the state’s only inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents. Dartmouth Health Children’s advances knowledge through groundbreaking research and education as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and delivers the best patient- and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents in a range of settings across New Hampshire and Vermont. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Manchester, NH, with pediatric primary care at nearly every Dartmouth Health member location.