Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth are partnering to convene a panel of former United States Surgeons General on Monday, October 27. Their conversation will address the urgent problem of the growing youth mental health crisis, its implications for public health, and what can be done to tackle it.
This panel comes two years after Dartmouth first convened the previous and several former Surgeons General to discuss the national mental health crisis. The six former Surgeons General taking part in the next panel are:
- Antonia Coello Novello, MD, MPH, Dr.PH
- M. Joycelyn Elders, MD
- David Satcher, MD, PhD
- Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS
- Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, FASA
- Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA
Their conversation will be moderated by Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse. The panel is part of a broader three-day symposium on youth mental health, sponsored by Dartmouth and the United Nations Development Programme.
The panel discussion will take place from 8:30-10:15 a.m. on Monday, October 27, at Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts, located at 4 East Wheelock St., Hanover, NH. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required and limited. Click here to register.
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.