Dartmouth Health's New London Hospital (NLH) announces that Lauren A. Geddes Wirth, MD, has been selected as NLH's new chief medical officer.
Geddes joins NLH with a combination of experience in outpatient clinical care, program development and executive leadership. As CMO, Geddes will lead clinical and quality initiatives that support the provision of consistent clinical performance and practice standards across the hospital.
"New London Hospital is excited to welcome Dr. Geddes and to benefit from the wealth of experience she brings," said Tom Manion, NLH CEO and president. "We look forward to working with her as she collaborates with our medical staff to support our organizational mission of providing high-quality healthcare to our communities."
Geddes graduated from Dartmouth College and the Brown-Dartmouth Program in Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency at Brown University's Hasbro Children's Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital and was selected to serve an additional year as Chief Resident in Pediatrics. Upon completing her residency, she established a pediatric practice in Sudbury, MA, that later became Mill Brook Pediatrics, a Mass General Brigham (MGB) health system independent affiliate.
Geddes is a Diplomat of the American Board of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She serves as the Chairperson of the Emerson Physician Hospital Organization and on the Board of Directors for MGB Community Physician Organization. She is also a member of the active medical staff at Emerson Hospital.
Geddes has roots in the Lake Sunapee Region, with a home in Grantham, which she and her husband, William Wirth, MD, plan to relocate to full-time once she begins the role.
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.