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MPH Student Spotlight: Melanie Wang

Prior to enrolling at Dartmouth, Melanie Wang spent five years in procurement consulting, helping supply chain teams across Fortune 500 clients transform their procurement organizations by delivering savings and impact.

MPH Student Spotlight: Karin Pivaral

An interest in public health and health policy next led Karin Pivaral to The Dartmouth Institute, where she also serves as the chief health services officer for a medical support unit in the Army Reserves.

MPH Student Spotlight: Tarun Jella

With medical school as his eventual goal, Tarun Jella continually seeks a balance between professional development and personal accountability for systemic injustice—a theme he hopes will carry throughout his career.

MPH Student Spotlight: Juan Jose Delgado-Hurtado, MD

After completing his first year of an endocrinology fellowship, Juan Jose Delgado-Hurtado transitioned to Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency (LPMR) program, which enables residents or fellows to obtain an MPH degree from The Dartmouth Institute.

‘Serious’ Video Games May Improve Physician Decision Making in Trauma Triage Situations

An emergency medicine physician working in the field or at a non-trauma center often has minutes to assess a patient’s injuries and decide whether they are severe enough to warrant transfer to a Level I or II trauma center. Under these circumstances—and often with only incomplete or suboptimal information available—emergency physicians rely heavily on their judgment of how closely a patient’s injuries mirror or represent the typical case that would require transfer to a trauma center. In order to help improve this type of physician decision making, known as heuristics, Dartmouth Institute Professor Amber Barnato, MD, recently worked with researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to develop and test two “serious” video game training interventions designed to improve judgment.

Highly Accomplished & Highly Committed: Meet the Online MPH Class of 2020

From New York City to Canada’s Northwest Territories, working in both the public and private sector, find out more about what drives these dedicated healthcare professionals, and what they’re looking for in Dartmouth Institute ‘deliverables.’

MPH Student Spotlight: Hema Karunakaram, Client Engagement Leader, IBM

MPH Student Spotlight: Daniel Wallingford, Director, New York City Department of Health

MPH Student Spotlight: Nicole Redvers, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Co-founder Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation

MPH Student Spotlight: Joshua Gonzalez, Manager, Aetna Corporate Development & Aetna Ventures