As part of the historic visit this week of all living Surgeons General of the United States to the Upper Valley, Dartmouth Health, the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth will sponsor a virtual roundtable on Friday, September 29, featuring five former Surgeons General, discussing some of the most pressing topics in healthcare. “The Future of Healthcare 2023 – The Surgeons General Roundtable” will be held at Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and stream live on YouTube from 9:30-11:00 am.
Steven L. Bernstein, MD, Chief Research Officer at DHMC and Director of the C. Everett Koop Institute, will deliver the welcoming remarks for this event. Pierre R. Theodore, MD, Director of Health Equity and Patient Impact Global Pharmaceutical at Genentech, will serve as moderator. Speakers include:
- Antonia C. Novello, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, the first woman and first Hispanic Surgeon General, who served during President George H.W. Bush’s administration
- M. Joycelyn Elders, MD, MS, the first Black Surgeon General, who served during President Bill Clinton’s administration
- Kenneth P. Moritsugu, MD, MPH, FACPM, who served as acting Surgeon General during President George W. Bush’s administration
- Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, who served during President Barack Obama’s administration,
- Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, FASA, who served during President Donald Trump’s administration
This event follows a panel discussion the day before at Dartmouth College featuring Novello, Elders, Moritsugu, Benjamin, Adams, and current Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, on the national mental health crisis.
To access this virtual roundtable, visit https://youtu.be/Nyzt4X8wrn0. To download the event program, visit https://bit.ly/3PSl8IH.
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.