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 the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
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.