Richard J. Powell, MD, director of Dartmouth Health’s Heart and Vascular Center, was recently elected to the American Heart Association (AHA) New Hampshire chapter’s board of directors for a two-year term. He joins six other leaders in New Hampshire’s medical and business communities who also joined the board at the start of its 2026-2027 fiscal year.
Powell, a board-certified vascular surgeon, has been with Dartmouth Health since 1997. Under Powell’s leadership, the Heart and Vascular Center’s vascular surgery training program was ranked number-one nationally, and expanded its cardiovascular service offerings in southern New Hampshire, both within the last year.
AHA board members are selected based on a combination of skills, experience, passion and influence to accomplish the revenue and health goals of an AHA division. Board members apply their time, talent and resources toward building resource capacity and improving the cardiovascular health of the community.
“As a volunteer-based organization, the American Heart Association relies on the dedication of people who are committed to our mission, and whose passion helps drive our success,” said Lindsay Colle, AHA’s vice president for development for northern New England. “Board members work alongside the Association’s New Hampshire staff to advance its mission and fundraising priorities. The board oversees opportunities for investment in New Hampshire to improve health and well-being and will build on existing efforts around health care access and quality, nutrition and food security, blood pressure control, CPR awareness and more.”
To learn more about AHA New Hampshire, visit heart.org/en/affiliates/new-hampshire.
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.