Giving Stories

The play2PREVENT Lab games are designed with input from teenagers in order to reflect their real-life experiences and environments.

The Power of Play: How one doctor turned to video games to prevent health issues

July 8th, 2024
Lung cancer screening tests are quick and easy. Using a low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scanner, clinicians take detailed pictures (or scans) of your lungs in under 2 minutes.

Lung cancer screening rates are low. This team is changing that.

June 24th, 2024
Harris Jones at the first All-Star Football game in 2012

Father/Son Duo Set Tone of Giving Back

Patient Stories
June 10th, 2024
Griffin LaFountain, assistant coach for Team West in the 2024 NH All-Star Football Game benefitting Dartmouth Health Children's and the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

‘You Can Do Anything On Wheels’

Patient Stories
June 10th, 2024
Normand W. Madore (left) and son James T. Madore in the summer of 2022 at the Wright Museum of World War II in Wolfeboro, N.H.

A custodian, a palliative care patient, and a grateful son. This is their story.

Patient Stories
March 7th, 2024
Colton Ricottelli, left, is a patient in the Face of a Child program at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

A Friendly Face Coordinating Complex Care for Children

Patient Stories
February 29th, 2024
Larry Morgan, an avid cyclist and pacemaker patient, stands next to his bike and a sign that says, "elevation here 6,578 feet."

A Pacemaker Fit for a Cyclist

Patient Stories
February 26th, 2024
Front row, from left: Joycelyn Elders, 1993-1994, Vivek Murthy, 2014-2017 and 2021-present, Antonia Coello Novello, 1990-1993, Regina Benjamin, 2009-2014. Back row, from left: Richard Carmona, 2002-2006, Kenneth Moritsugu, 2002-2002, 2006-2007, and Jerome Adams, 2017-2021. David Satcher, 1998-2002, was unable to attend in person, but shared comments on mental health via a video statement, rounding out the panel to include all of the living U.S. Surgeons General.

America’s Top Doctors Discuss National Crisis

Giving in Action
December 11th, 2023
Boyoung Ahn ’24 (D ’18) is a fourth-year medical student at Geisel School of Medicine. Ahn, who is from Suwon, South Korea, received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Dartmouth in 2018 before completing a master’s degree in global health at the University of California San Francisco. Ahn plans to pursue a career in internal medicine and geriatrics.

Caring from a Distance

Giving in Action
December 7th, 2023
Dartmouth Cancer Center Deputy Director Linda T. Vahdat, MD, MBA, is helping transform the face of research and patient care.

The Generosity Effect

Giving in Action
December 7th, 2023
Intensive Care Nursery founder and medical director George Little, MD, and head nurse Linda Brown, RN, work with the original transport isolette in the early days of the Intensive Care Nursery.

Celebrating 50 Years of Neonatal Intensive Care

Giving in Action
December 7th, 2023
Volunteers tend the Farmacy Garden at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, an initiative to improve access to nutritious food among patients.

Where the Clinic and the Dinner Table Meet

Giving in Action
December 7th, 2023
Brock Christensen, PhD (right) and Christine Gunn, MA, PhD (left)

A Personalized Healthcare Revolution

Giving in Action
December 7th, 2023
Owen Zak is not just a child cancer survivor

Owen Zak is not just a child cancer survivor

Video
December 7th, 2023

Stories of giving back and changing lives

Larry Morgan, an avid cyclist and pacemaker patient, stands next to his bike and a sign that says, "elevation here 6,578 feet."

A Pacemaker Fit for a Cyclist

Patient Stories
February 26th, 2024
Brock Christensen, PhD (right) and Christine Gunn, MA, PhD (left)

A Personalized Healthcare Revolution

Giving in Action
December 7th, 2023
Volunteers tend the Farmacy Garden at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, an initiative to improve access to nutritious food among patients.

Where the Clinic and the Dinner Table Meet

Giving in Action
December 7th, 2023