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2021 Double Reunion

Dartmouth Medical School and Geisel School of Medicine Graduates from class years ending in 0, 1, 5, and 6.

Friday through Sunday, September 17-19, 2021

CME-New Frontiers in Medicine | 9:00am - 12:00pm

September 23, 2016
NEW LOCATION: Courtyard Marriott, 10 Morgan Drive, Lebanon, NH 03766
See bottom of page for credit information and learning objectives.

Start your reunion weekend off with a medical education session. Oge Young, MD M'75 will open the session with a welcome message and story and will introduce each speaker briefly.

Speaker & Presentation Time

Topic

Oge Young, MD M'75
8:55 - 9:00am

Welcome and Introductions

Fred Markham, MD M'76
9:00 -  9:25am

Reflection Rounds
Read more about reflection rounds here.
Dr. Markham graduated from Wesleyan University
in 1973 after majoring in biology. He graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1976. He did a residency at Thomas Jefferson University in family medicine and completed a faculty development fellowship there in 1980. After practicing family medicine in Berlin, New Hampshire for 11 years he returned to Jefferson in 1992 and joined the faculty in the family and community medicine department. As a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Jefferson he has been involved in student education serving on both the medical school’s curriculum committee and admission committee.

9:25 - 9:30am

Q & A

Kathy Kirkland, MD M'86
9:30 - 9:55am

Reading Surgeons: A Year of Narrative Medicine with Surgical Interns
Dr. Kirkland is a professor of medicine and interim chief of the section of palliative medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. She is board certified in internal medicine, infectious disease, and hospice and palliative medicine. She leads the Humanities in Medicine program, coordinating cross-disciplinary activities with colleagues at Dartmouth College, and integrating narrative medicine teaching into medical student and residency training, and offering faculty development opportunities as well.

9:55 - 10:00am 

Q & A

Eric Ahlskog, MD, PhD M'76
10:00 - 10:25am

Scientific Evidence for Vigorous Exercise
Protecting the Brain from Aging and Dementia
Read more about this study here.
Dr. Ahlskog is Professor of Neurology, Mayo Medical School and former Chair of the Mayo Clinic Neurology Section of Movement Disorders, Rochester, Minnesota. He is a full-time clinician with most of his Mayo practice devoted to Parkinson's disease and related disorders. He has published 239 manuscripts in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, most related to Parkinson's disease and movement disorders.

10:25 - 10:30am 

Q & A

 10:30 - 10:45am

 Break

Jeffrey Greenwald, MD M'76
10:45 - 11:10am

Emergence of an Old Disease in Central Florida
Read more about Hansen's diease here.
Dr. Greenwald graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1973 and he graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1976. He completed his residency in dermatology at Harvard in 1980. He is currently the Managing Partner at the Dermatology Group in Florida and the Dermatology Education Chair at UCF College of Medicine.

11:10 - 11:15am 

Q & A

 

 

Joe O'Donnell, MD M'71 
Daniel Lucey, MD, MPH M'81
Kenneth E. Sharpe

11:15am - 12:15pm  

Practical Wisdom – Writing and Sharing Lessons From Practice
Dr. O'Donnell is a member of Dartmouth Medical School's class of 1971 (celebrating their 45th reunion this year) and he earned his MD at Harvard Medical School in 1973. He completed his residency in
internal medicine at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital from 1973 to 1976 and a fellowship in oncology at the National Instittues of Health from 1976 to 1978. He was the Chief on Oncology at the VA Hospital in White River Junction, Vt. from 1978 to 2014. He has been a member of the Dean's office since 1985 and is currently the Senior Advising Dean.

Daniel R. Lucey ’77, M ’81 is an infectious disease and public health physician who teaches at Georgetown University. He is a curator on an upcoming Global Epidemics Exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. From 2003-2016 he travelled to epidemics such as SARS in China and Canada, Flu in SE Asia and Egypt, MERS in the Middle East and Korea, Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Zika in Brazil, and Yellow Fever in DRCongo. In 2012 he and Joe O’Donnell began discussions regarding perspectives on Wisdom at Dartmouth. He trained in Medicine at UCSF, ID at Harvard, served as Attending Physician at the NIH, and was ID Chief at Washington Hospital Center in DC.

Kenneth E. Sharpe is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College where he teaches political philosophy, practical ethics, Latin American politics, and foreign policy. He has been a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, the University of British Columbia and, most recently, at the Law School at the University of Colorado. He is author (with Professor Deborah Cantrell) of “Practicing Practical Wisdom,” 67 Mercer Law Review 331, 2016. He is co-author, with Professor Barry Schwartz, of Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do The Right Thing (Penguin/Riverhead, 2010). His previous books include, Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial (University of California Press, 1996), The State and the Transnational Corporations: The Political Economy of the Mexican Auto Industry (Princeton, 1985), and Peasant Politics: Struggle in a Dominican Village (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977). He has also published articles in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation, Foreign Policy Magazine and The American Prospect.

 

 

 

Learning Outcome Statement

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to describe recent advances in general topics that affect all surgical specialties, such as responsible opioid prescribing, QI and social media in practice, dealing with burn-out, optimal mentoring, and roles for surgeons in global health.


Accreditation:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Dartmouth-Hitchcock designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.