Scott W. Rodi, MD, MPH, FACEP, has been named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Rodi’s appointment follows a national search to fill this important role. He has served as interim chair since 2020.
As the clinical leader and department Chair, Rodi is responsible for the overall direction, operations, and management of the department, including the delivery of emergency medicine services, faculty development, graduate medical education, and providing telemedicine across Dartmouth Health’s service area through the TeleED program. As an academic leader at Geisel, Rodi will be responsible for the department’s educational functions, which include teaching and training medical students, and residents.
“Dr. Rodi successfully led the emergency department through some of the most challenging times in recent memory from navigating the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic to managing ongoing staffing shortages and unprecedented patient census numbers,” said Edward J. Merrens, MD, chief clinical officer of Dartmouth Health. “His appointment to the role of emergency medicine chair is well-deserved and we look forward to his continued leadership in the department of emergency medicine.
“I am pleased that Dr. Rodi has taken on this important role,” said Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. “He provided key leadership in the formation of Emergency Medicine as a stand-alone department and has been a strong advocate for the department’s academic mission. I look forward to working with him to advance the department’s educational and research activities.”
Rodi joined DHMC and Dartmouth in 2000. He attended medical school at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and holds a bachelor’s in biology and master’s of public health from Dartmouth College. He served as interim section chief for emergency medicine at DHMC from 2018 to 2020. Rodi has been in leadership roles within DHMC emergency medicine since 2005, including medical director and section chief for emergency medicine, medical director for TeleED, regional medical director for DHART, and founder and co-director of the Center for Rural Emergency Services and Trauma.
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.